If the Flames have to dump Brodie or Hamonic to play in the UFA market it will be a huge mistake.
Gio-Hanifin-brodie/Hamonic leaves the Flames in the Canucks category of Defense:
Elder/Tanev/Myers
After that Andersen-Valimaki-Stone is arguably the same as Stecher-Hughes-Hutton
Maybe Valimaki is a top-2/4 guy ... just the same as Hughes might the same.
The Flames advantage last season was that they had 4-dmen that could play in the top-2. Not a lot of teams that could do that.
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