As a Wing fan, and if CGY decides to blow it up, I'm swapping one of those 2nds out for a 1st for Andersson instead.
Exactly. Tre got cute with Gaudreau and got burned. That first playoff run they had sure felt like building blocks to a deeper fun. Now there is zero surprise all the other UFAs want out. Calgary is a good city to be in when the team is good but a coin flip of the team rebounding or falling flat again.
I somewhat agree with you, but they did themselves absolutely 0 favors in the process. Between hiring a dinosaur coach and a meddling owner they shot themselves in the foot. As was said earlier in this thread they had an open goal of an opportunity to go into a rebuild and do it right by trading Gaudreau and Tkachuk but chose to go with their egos and bet that they'd keep the group together.
Too late, that spiral started last summer.
Oh for sure. I think with a better GM this could have been avoided but I think players would have been more likely to re-sign in this same situation if they were a So-Cal or Florida team.
With the benefit of hindsight, it's easy to reach this conclusion. At the time, Calgary looked like they won the trade. When those extensions were signed, it was looking like a fleece. It didn't turn out the way they wanted, but they fully expected to continue competing at the time (which was reasonable).
Their is no-retool at this point. She done. It will just be a question if they actually trade assets or go for one last miracle run and then lose the UFAs for nothing
Yes, that is where the problem is lol. He is great if you have a few guys ahead of him and he is not needed to drive a lot of play.
The worse the Flames bottom out, the more likely is that Montreal gets Florida's 1st. Best realistic case for Montreal is the Flames getting the 11th overall in 25. There is an outside shot of a better pick than that if Florida also bottoms out over the next two seasons.
Montreal gets Calgary's 1st round pick in 2025, which has all of the confusing conditions. It will likely be the worse of Calgary's 2025 1st or Florida's 2025 1st round picks
It was clear as day that they’d give them a very short window.
Hanifin would be a luxury for Detroit with their D pipeline regardless.
Likely add Backlund and Hanifin. That's a huge drain of skill from the org
There is no-retool now unless Dubois would be open to being overpaid by the Flames lol. Tre left the Flames a mess and hopefully Conroy will clean it up rather than going for one last run.
