I will start off by saying if the Flames decide to rebuild I will be okay with it and understand the decision.
Personally what I think will happen is they build around the following core:
Markstrom, Hanifin, Andersson, Tanev, Valimaki, Lindholm, Mangiapane, Dube, Tkachuk, Backlund.
I think Gio is part of their plans but I hope they let Seattle make that call. I think the plan is to still build around Tkachuk but I don’t really know and could see him requesting a trade.
I just get the feeling the plan is to go for it next year. I don’t think all of Gaudreau, Monahan, Gio, Tkachuk will be traded but I think 1-3 of them are gone.
I will be surprised if the org decided to fully tank for the future and do a huge sell off. If they do then Lindholm and Markstrom go from must keep to must move
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