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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
This rarely happens for the Flames.
They had an abundance at one position and dealt from that depth to address other needs.
Now they have a younger and potentially better starting goalie, as well as a very good young defenseman and 1st round pick that they didn't have before.
I'm hoping this continues to happen going forward for years. The way Cooley looks on the farm, they may be able to do this again very soon by dealing Vladar, although the return won't be as significant as it was when they dealt Marskstrom.
I'm also hoping they are able to start doing this with Dmen soon. I guess already kind of did, they dealt guys like Tanev and Hanifin last year and haven't really missed a beat with additions like Bahl/Miromanov/Pachal. With some solid D psospects developing in the system, they will hopefully be able to recycle some of the older NHL guys for more futures when the prospects show they are ready to step up.
That's how good organizations should be ran. Trade older more expensive players for some futures while they still have value, and replace them with cheaper up and coming younger homegrown players. Rinse and repeat.
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Winger too.
Toffoli, Managiapane, and others out...Sharangovich, Zary, Pospisil, Coronato in and with Pelletier, Klapka, Honzek and others still on the farm and Gridin, Basha, Battaglia, Suniev having promising seasons.
They probably have more opportunity to do another wave of this on defence too with Poirier, Kuznetsov (Who has taken a step this year), Brzustewicz, Parekh, and Morin coming up as prospects.
The pipeline looks strong...we really just need to add some young centers outside of Kerins and Morton (and if Zary sticks at C that will help a lot).
