I'll be pissed off but can look forward to the early tank for this guy
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If Flames goal is Alexis in 2020 then Flames need to sell a lot during this upcoming year and next off season. I mean we'd get a hell of a lot of big assets back, since Gaudreau, Backlund, Brodie, Hamonic, Neal, should all be traded. Only players I keep are Monahan since #1 centers are extremely hard to draft and even harder to trade for. Then build the team around Tkachuk and keep Lindholm for 2nd line.
Alexis is a winger, thus I don't trade Mony/Lindy/Janko/Bennett.
Like I love Alexis, I watched him play at the Ivan Hlinka and the kid is far above his competition it's sick to watch, but I really don't want to keep missing the playoffs. What a waste of a signed Gaudreau, a 35 year old Gio, etc.
If I could see the future and see us missing the playoffs the next 2 seasons by only a couple of points because of goaltending/injuries and ended up winning both drafts and got Hughes and Alexis, I'd be fine though, because with those 2 and Chucky we'd have a stupid good, young core + Mony and Lindy would only be 25.
Enough of this anti-playoff talk though.