Calgary is flush with prospect/depth wingers, defense and goalies.
At this point, a million picks is a waste, and you need impact picks (1sts and 2nds), high risk/reward players and high floor #### disturbers. Along with that elusive 1C.
All of the little guys just muddy the waters. Go big or go home time.
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Calgary is flush with prospect/depth wingers, defense and goalies.
At this point, a million picks is a waste, and you need impact picks (1sts and 2nds), high risk/reward players and high floor #### disturbers. Along with that elusive 1C.
All of the little guys just muddy the waters. Go big or go home time.
There are impact players to be found in the middle and late rounds. Our young #1 goalie is one. You have to be very lucky, in addition to having a good scouting team. But one of the ways to change those long odds, is to simply have a quantity of picks.
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There are impact players to be found in the middle and late rounds. Our young #1 goalie is one. You have to be very lucky, in addition to having a good scouting team. But one of the ways to change those long odds, is to simply have a quantity of picks.
Two more years of 10+ picks, and we're going to be assigning players to some pretty weird ass leagues.
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Calgary is flush with prospect/depth wingers, defense and goalies.
At this point, a million picks is a waste, and you need impact picks (1sts and 2nds), high risk/reward players and high floor #### disturbers. Along with that elusive 1C.
All of the little guys just muddy the waters. Go big or go home time.
You only have so much room/resources/need to develop players too.
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My friend was just in the dressing room (dm me for source if need be) Kadri was telling some team mates he likely won't be playing next game and will be sitting out.
If true I’m glad he had the game he did. Go out on a high note.
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I can’t help but think the rumours around Lomberg are just media creating drama. Lomberg has been healthy scratched on a bad Flames team and barely played at all on Florida’s cup run. I doubt there are any serious offers and we’re all wasting our time talking about it.
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Kadri is still a very compelling add to any contender. Did he have an amazing year last year? Yes.
Well this year he is shooting at 7.5%, his historic average is 11%. If he was shooting at 11% he would be on pace for 26 goals, eg 68 points this year. He had 67 last year. Dude is not slowing down
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Two more years of 10+ picks, and we're going to be assigning players to some pretty weird ass leagues.
Probably not because each team has a limit of 50 contracts so there are only a maximum of 50 players you can send to any league. Those leagues are usually NHL (23) AHL, some ECHL and the CHL. The fact that most CHL drafted players in the future will likely go NCAA means that you probably have even more time to make your decisions than in the past. The correct play right now is to get as many 10+ draft years as you can.
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I can’t help but think the rumours around Lomberg are just media creating drama. Lomberg has been healthy scratched on a bad Flames team and barely played at all on Florida’s cup run. I doubt there are any serious offers and we’re all wasting our time talking about it.
He’s not a noticeably different player than he was on a cup-winning team two years ago. The playoffs are different. Teams need toughness, playoff experience, and especially depth for injuries. It’s not creating drama either, it’s discussing a pending UFA on a rebuilding team. Speculation about Lombo being moved has been happened here for months.
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There's an obvious sweet spot for making the best deal possible. You want to own the market when you can and then extract as much based on the cornering of the market. The Flames owned the market a month to six weeks ago. Not many other teams in sell mode with the quality of talent the Flames had to move. You leverage that and get the best deal before other assets come on the market and give teams other options.
I think that is where Rhett is coming from. The delay in making a deal or accepting a deal has allowed other assets to reach the market and become options. That has changed the market and could make Kadri untradeable at this point, simply because there are other options out there come without the long-term commitment.
So I can understand the frustration and where he's coming from. The team ####ed around with trying to frame what the rebiggle was and the indecisiveness has probably hurt their potential to extricate maximum value. We'll see, but I can understand the frustration hanging out there as we don't trade away players that don't matter in the long run and are only contributing to meaningless wins which hurt our draft position.
The whole premise of this argument though is that there was a market.
I suspect there wasn’t, or if there was, it wasn’t much of one. We see this, every single year, that the vast majority of in season trades occur near/at the deadline when there actually is a market.
Sure, Kadri may have been available earlier but if you’re the Habs, for example, you’ve waited and now have the option of exploring several players (O’Rielly, Trocheck, Kadri, and probably others). If you’re the Wild you’re probably looking at Thomas, O’Rielly, Trocheck or Kadri. Ditto the Kings or Red Wings. NHL GM’s on the other side of these transactions know this.
In other words there’s no point in bemoaning that we missed the market when the market never existed.
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The whole premise of this argument though is that there was a market.
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In other words there’s no point in bemoaning that we missed the market when the market never existed.
There is ALWAYS a market. But there is NOT always a moment to exploit that market (for buyer OR seller). We’ve seen deals come to fruition that GMs have later said started months, or even a year or more, before completion.
He’s not a noticeably different player than he was on a cup-winning team two years ago. The playoffs are different. Teams need toughness, playoff experience, and especially depth for injuries. It’s not creating drama either, it’s discussing a pending UFA on a rebuilding team. Speculation about Lombo being moved has been happened here for months.
What would you pay for a cheerleader that can’t really play much?
Hopefully the kadri rumor is right but I dont have much expectation. Flames probably crush the kings with how both teams are looking. I hope i am wrong but i think the flames might still be a year or two away from bottoming out, its been a very slow decent.
Also take the best deal of course everyone wants more quality if possible but stockpiling picks and prospects is the textbook play for a team whose chances of winning a cup look hopeless at this stage in the season. The 50 contract cap is not critical when it comes to trading for future draft picks, they are currency and you can trade extras for a higher draft slot pretty easily every year if your system is swamped with too many quality players to give minutes to. Which is pretty far from where the flames are at anyway right now.
