02-23-2026, 01:17 PM
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#28001
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First Line Centre
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This team needs to nose dive badly.
Looking at the roster these days is tough. Man it's ugly. Especially since we're already going on year 4 without playoffs. In that time frame you would hope to be on the start of the upswing, but I don't think we're close yet.
Being heavily invested in hockey again during the Olympics was a shock to the system.
Boy do I miss being excited about the Flames in a hockey game.
These are the critical days of building the foundation for the next iteration.
We need some serious talent ASAP.
If they can get any decent value for their vets, do it and move on.
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02-23-2026, 01:25 PM
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#28002
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Dienasty
Gees, the amount of disrespect Backlund takes...
To me I dont have an issue with finishing the season with Backlund, Frost, Zary, Beecher, Morton, Kirkland as our center depth.
As simple as it sounds I would just trade Kadri for the best value I could get and not worry about a specific position.
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Agreed. Get good value in the form of picks/prospects and worry about building through the draft or through draft/prospect capital. Would rather not have the flames be adamant about getting a 24 year old NHL center with top six upside in a Kadri trade if it means they don’t get the trade done this season. The team is drafting really well lately. Get the picks. Make the picks and develop them. Give Zary a full look as a top six NHL center for the rest of the season and see how it goes. It will at least give them a better indication on if he can actually be a center in this league.
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02-23-2026, 01:30 PM
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#28003
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Dienasty
Gees, the amount of disrespect Backlund takes...
To me I dont have an issue with finishing the season with Backlund, Frost, Zary, Beecher, Morton, Kirkland as our center depth.
As simple as it sounds I would just trade Kadri for the best value I could get and not worry about a specific position.
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I dont see backs as a top six center i guess is the issue. To me he is a good middle six center with above average defensive metric and their isnt much room for improvement but a lot if chance at drop off.
Its not disrespect it’s reality.
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02-23-2026, 01:35 PM
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#28004
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#1 Goaltender
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While not as exciting as trades, I am also interested to see which players come back from the Olympics and get declared out for the season immedieately. Not players who got injured such as Fiala, but players who played at the Olympics but won't play another NHL game this season.
Friedman has been hinting there is a few, and Marek speculates a likely one is Brad Marchand.
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02-23-2026, 01:50 PM
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#28005
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by traptor
This team needs to nose dive badly.
Looking at the roster these days is tough. Man it's ugly. Especially since we're already going on year 4 without playoffs. In that time frame you would hope to be on the start of the upswing, but I don't think we're close yet.
Being heavily invested in hockey again during the Olympics was a shock to the system.
Boy do I miss being excited about the Flames in a hockey game.
These are the critical days of building the foundation for the next iteration.
We need some serious talent ASAP.
If they can get any decent value for their vets, do it and move on.
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Arent we already doing that?
This team is posied to make a top 5 pick, they're seemingly trading off the last two big vets on the team that makes sense to move.
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02-23-2026, 01:52 PM
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#28006
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Sector 7-G
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Quote:
Originally Posted by united
While not as exciting as trades, I am also interested to see which players come back from the Olympics and get declared out for the season immedieately. Not players who got injured such as Fiala, but players who played at the Olympics but won't play another NHL game this season.
Friedman has been hinting there is a few, and Marek speculates a likely one is Brad Marchand.
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I wonder if McD is banged up too from the olympics. He seemed to handle the puck like a grenade and had zero power on his shots.
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02-23-2026, 01:58 PM
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#28008
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2014
Location: Springbank
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fan69
I dont see backs as a top six center i guess is the issue. To me he is a good middle six center with above average defensive metric and their isnt much room for improvement but a lot if chance at drop off.
Its not disrespect it’s reality.
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Middle six and top six have three players in common.
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02-23-2026, 02:12 PM
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#28009
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Middle six and top six have three players in common.
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Top six indicates a first line fill-in, or first line potential upside. He's not that. He's never been that. He's been a great middle six centre for a dozen years, but he's now a third line centre and a 2nd liner in a pinch or on a really bad team (like the Flames).
In any case, that's fine with me if the Flames roster a bunch of middle six centres until Reschny and hopefully the next drafted/traded for star centre prospect are ready.
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02-23-2026, 02:12 PM
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#28010
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Franchise Player
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50% overlap on the Venn diagram
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02-23-2026, 02:20 PM
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#28013
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Backup Goalie
Join Date: Nov 2011
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sec214
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This craig conroy at 10pm last night when the trade freeze was lifted?
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02-23-2026, 02:22 PM
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#28014
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sec214
Words or GIFs....
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Give the GIF's a couple of pages of absolutely outrageous speculation and then layout in words what it means and what is happening. Because nobody can guess the GIF correctly.
Please and Thank you.
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02-23-2026, 02:23 PM
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#28015
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Crash and Bang Winger
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Toronto
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Quote:
Originally Posted by sekimet
This craig conroy at 10pm last night when the trade freeze was lifted?
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Donald Duckloney
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02-23-2026, 02:24 PM
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#28016
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Jan 2017
Location: The real "Cowtown"
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Sec214
Words or GIFs....
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Words please! GIFs are fun too though
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02-23-2026, 02:25 PM
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#28017
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Enoch Root
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Flipping time must mean a Zachary Whitecloud trade?
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02-23-2026, 02:28 PM
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#28018
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Memento Mori
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GMs caught with their pants off?
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02-23-2026, 02:29 PM
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#28019
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Franchise Player
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Shazam
GMs caught with their pants off?
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Only Pat Verbeek, since it's a Duck.
Then again, Donald Duck never wears pants. I haven't heard that the same is true of Verbeek.
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02-23-2026, 02:31 PM
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#28020
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Scoring Winger
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Ducks are an awesome trading partner. They have all of their picks for the next few drafts, and two extra 2nd round picks next year.
McQueen is probably out of the question without adding to what we’re giving up.
Other players of interest are LD Stian Solberg and C Lucas Pettersson.
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