This is from the Athletic (strongly recommend it):
Calgary Flames
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If the Flames had managed to acquire the 2019 version of Erik Gustafsson from Chicago, then this might be a different story. But instead they got the current version, which means Gustafsson brings some offensive pop but also lots of defensive liabilities to a team whose strength was already the blue line. And for a team that had been in the market for a top-six winger, preferably one on the right side, the Flames came up empty and as a result have to find a way to shoulder their way into the playoffs with the guys already in the room. I don’t like their chances given their peculiar inability to even remotely approach their level of play from last season when they were the top team in the Western Conference. The fact that Gustafsson and Derek Forbort, another defensive depth piece acquired from Los Angeles for a conditional fourth-round pick in 2021, do not make the Flames appreciably better than they were suggests the chances are excellent they’ll be on the outside looking in come April.