The problem with Nylander though is that he’s in the same situation as we were with Huberdeau. Great, you have him, but now you’ve gotta re-sign him before he even wears your jersey or else you’re playing with his UFA chances.
rockylion
Maybe we could target McDavid, Ovechkin, Makar and Karlsson as well, then we definitely won’t need to rebuild.
AdditionalPush2973
Pls no
DIYrDIE
Please, no
LimitAsXApproaches0
…so just continue handing out overpriced contracts that we will regret in a couple years and extend our mediocrity for another decade? No thanks.
DnRxViking
Considering reports that he’s asking 10M from the Leafs, idk about that chief. Arguably he’s kinda deserved it too, he outperformed Matthews and Marner these past playoffs and got shafted on his last contract while they took home the bags. Most likely he’s gonna get 9.5-10M as a UFA, I just don’t know if it makes sense for us to pay him that
SpitfireFan
Honestly, I think Huberdeau-Lindholm-Nylander might be the best line in the league and our power play would be unbelievable. It would be for some time with the cap growing and I could be for signing him any day, even if you have to pay $1M more than he’s worth.
That said it’s the fact you have to pay an acquisition cost and sign him. I wouldn’t want to give up a real big cost, wouldn’t want to give up any major futures, and pay him that money. So unless they want a straight swap for something like Hanafin and we find a trade partner for Vladar I don’t see the point.
eugenejfish
Okay well that’s not happening so there’s no use wasting breath talking about it
Healthy_Tackle751
Can we please rebuild?? I was looking forward to it during the 2010s. It’s always some half ass “retooling” that never works.
Specialist-One-712
Oh look it’s The Hockey Writers with the daily dose of baseless speculation scraped from a couple of offhanded comments in this subreddit
smilecrocodile1
You know how else the Flames can avoid a rebuild? The same way they have since 1994…by having Murray Edwards as the majority owner.
mobin69
If we didn’t have huberdeau, I’d feel way better about spending the money here. No fucking way under the current situation
Chemical_Signal2753
Do not want.
My personal opinion is we need to get clarity from Lindholm before we take any other action. After that we make appropriate trades on Lindholm and Hanifin.
If Lindholm wants out I would seriously consider getting Kuznetsov out of Washington to replace him. I’m not suggesting a one for one trade, at his current AAV I’m not sure Kuznetsov has positive value, but see him as more of a stop gap. If Kuznetsov has a bounce back season with Huberdeau you can flip him at the trade deadline or next offseason, if he doesn’t you still probably have a pretty good center to buy time for prospects to develop.
CaptinDerpI
Worst article ever???
We need a fucking rebuild
JimBruv420
But we want to rebuild, no more of these Treliving moves for the love of God
cgydan
He wants north of 10 million. The flames can’t afford that. Nor should they pay it.
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No more retirement contracts please.
The problem with Nylander though is that he’s in the same situation as we were with Huberdeau. Great, you have him, but now you’ve gotta re-sign him before he even wears your jersey or else you’re playing with his UFA chances.
Maybe we could target McDavid, Ovechkin, Makar and Karlsson as well, then we definitely won’t need to rebuild.
Pls no
Please, no
…so just continue handing out overpriced contracts that we will regret in a couple years and extend our mediocrity for another decade? No thanks.
Considering reports that he’s asking 10M from the Leafs, idk about that chief. Arguably he’s kinda deserved it too, he outperformed Matthews and Marner these past playoffs and got shafted on his last contract while they took home the bags. Most likely he’s gonna get 9.5-10M as a UFA, I just don’t know if it makes sense for us to pay him that
Honestly, I think Huberdeau-Lindholm-Nylander might be the best line in the league and our power play would be unbelievable. It would be for some time with the cap growing and I could be for signing him any day, even if you have to pay $1M more than he’s worth.
That said it’s the fact you have to pay an acquisition cost and sign him. I wouldn’t want to give up a real big cost, wouldn’t want to give up any major futures, and pay him that money. So unless they want a straight swap for something like Hanafin and we find a trade partner for Vladar I don’t see the point.
Okay well that’s not happening so there’s no use wasting breath talking about it
Can we please rebuild?? I was looking forward to it during the 2010s. It’s always some half ass “retooling” that never works.
Oh look it’s The Hockey Writers with the daily dose of baseless speculation scraped from a couple of offhanded comments in this subreddit
You know how else the Flames can avoid a rebuild? The same way they have since 1994…by having Murray Edwards as the majority owner.
If we didn’t have huberdeau, I’d feel way better about spending the money here. No fucking way under the current situation
Do not want.
My personal opinion is we need to get clarity from Lindholm before we take any other action. After that we make appropriate trades on Lindholm and Hanifin.
If Lindholm wants out I would seriously consider getting Kuznetsov out of Washington to replace him. I’m not suggesting a one for one trade, at his current AAV I’m not sure Kuznetsov has positive value, but see him as more of a stop gap. If Kuznetsov has a bounce back season with Huberdeau you can flip him at the trade deadline or next offseason, if he doesn’t you still probably have a pretty good center to buy time for prospects to develop.
Worst article ever???
We need a fucking rebuild
But we want to rebuild, no more of these Treliving moves for the love of God
He wants north of 10 million. The flames can’t afford that. Nor should they pay it.