2025/2026 Season Trade Rumours and Speculation Thread

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by DJones

Trouba would have been a good target in retrospect.

Maybe. But he also was done with Canada. Wife is an American Doctor.

[Ped]

Originally Posted by Saqe

Ok. But still, Marner had been in the league 10 years and under several coaches. Not sure what evaluating is needed. And then to think that they were willing to hand total control to Marner and risk him leaving for nothing... wooof.

There was no evaluation needed. If Treliving wanted to trade Marner, he had about a month to come up with a deal. Dubas had likely not laid any groundwork in that direction at all.


And the story is, unconfirmed of course, that Shanny told Treliving that trading Marner before his NMC kicked in was off the table.

[SuperMatt18]

The solution wasn't trading Marner.

It was defending him more and actually re-signing him.

Had they offered him a big extension July 1 2024 he would have likely taken it. But the organization was scapegoating him a bit and didn't want to commit an extension to him then.

Treliving doing what Treliving does

[SuperMatt18]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

This may indeed be a good plan for a big market team that has actually won something or had some level of sustained success, it's too bad that's nowhere close to what we are. When you’re in an undesirable market it's not traditionally a great business decision to ship out people who for whatever reason desire to be in your market. The Flames don’t have the level of organizational success necessary to be ruthless in their treatment of players.

If Coleman and Kadri were 29 years old then sure.

But they are 34 and 35 years old, in 5 years when the team is ready to contend I don't think them being here now is going to matter.

You treat them well and try to take their considerations on where they want to be traded to into the equation.

But keeping them in Calgary at this point because they want to be here provides no real benefit and it's not being ruthless of the organization to understand that.

[Flamesfan05]

The wizard is also very good at spreading rumors blaming others and how much he works and how he is involved in every deal