I feel Ras wants to make the safe play right now in the offensive zone opposed to making a high risk/high reward play. We aren't hurting for goals so it's fine right now, but if he (and Vali) and Ollie can get their offence going, my God.
What in the hell do the Flames do now though? Flames have 7 legitimate NHL d-men (no Stone wasn't) who need to play when Vali gets healthy. Do we send someone down and hold them for the year as depth or try and facilitate a trade for more offensive depth or an upgrade in net?
Who knows how the year plays out, but like we shouldn't be trading any of our top 4 because we finally have a solid top 4, really 2 top pairings with Hanifin and Hamonic's play as of late. Then our 3 stud rookie d-men. It's a good problem to have, albeit it is still a problem.