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Speculation: Armchair GM 2024-25 Season, Craig Conroy's Can Do Calgary Flames

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How do we feel about this? With the cap going up it could be feasible but not sure it's the right time to go big game hunting in free agency for this org. And not sure if Rantanen would have any interest coming here.
 
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Iggys Dome said:
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How do we feel about this? With the cap going up it could be feasible but not sure it's the right time to go big game hunting in free agency for this org. And not sure if Rantanen would have any interest coming here.
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9 time out of 10, I would agree with you. But it’s not every day there is a Mikko Kapanen about to hit FA, either. Sometimes you just don’t have a say in what the “right time” is. I mean, Calgary could kinda be like living in Colorado, I guess lol if he is willing to play here, $14M x 8, no prob. That deal would take him to 36, basically to the end of his career.
 
I think we’d have to pay him way more than he’s worth to get him here, I think he’s more of a winger than a center too. His play style also isn’t one that typically ages well

Think you’d definitely get some good years but it might get ugly on the back end. It’s a pretty hard no from me. Having cap space doesn’t mean we have to blow it all in free agency
 
crackdown44 said:
I think we’d have to pay him way more than he’s worth to get him here, I think he’s more of a winger than a center too. His play style also isn’t one that typically ages well

Think you’d definitely get some good years but it might get ugly on the back end. It’s a pretty hard no from me. Having cap space doesn’t mean we have to blow it all in free agency
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$14M will be a lot more common on the back half of that contract than you think, for better or for worse.
 
Iggys Dome said:
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How do we feel about this? With the cap going up it could be feasible but not sure it's the right time to go big game hunting in free agency for this org. And not sure if Rantanen would have any interest coming here.
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Flames are projected to have $37m in cap space next season with Andersson being the only big $$ player to be signed.
Too bad Rantanen isn't a center though. Not sure if the Flames should invest the kind of money it will take to sign him... him being a 29 year old winger and all. I say wait another year. McDavid will be available in 2026.
 
Building around two post apex wingers on massive contracts would be dumb as hell but also entirely on brand for the Flames under this ownership. Thankfully pretty much zero chance Rantanen would ever sign here.

Seriously, just because the Flames have cap space now doesn't mean they need to blow it on ufa's. Just sign Coronato/Wolf/Zary to 8 year deals and be happy with the flexibility.
 
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Iggys Dome said:
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How do we feel about this? With the cap going up it could be feasible but not sure it's the right time to go big game hunting in free agency for this org. And not sure if Rantanen would have any interest coming here.
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It would be a most flames like thing to do. Go after and pay a high scoring winger and ignore the fact that this team really really needs an elite centre
 
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Darth Vladar said:
No to Leddy; I’d personally prefer to go sub-30 if possible. As far as guys who are UFA at the end of the season, I’d target Provorov. I saw somebody on here mention Lindgren, he’d be an interesting option. It looks like Chychrun is pretty happy in Washington. Hague’s deal is up the end of this season but won’t technically be unrestricted until the year after that, he’d be another one to consider. Besides that, there are a bunch of really intriguing RFA players, namely Lorei in Boston, Evans in SEA, and Romanov in Long Island, whose name I’ve also seen batted around here. Buffalo has a trio of guys whose salaries they could be looking to dump including LD Owen Power. Moser in Tampa could be another interesting one to consider, a year left at $3.375M then RFA.

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JJ Moser would be the dream add, I was firm on Tampa winning the Sergachev trade handedly and although it’s not a commonly shared opinion I think their respective play this year has proven it true even more so than I thought. Tampa has him extremely cost controlled though, they’d never let him go.
 
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Building around two post apex wingers on massive contracts would be dumb as hell but also entirely on brand for the Flames under this ownership. Thankfully pretty much zero chance Rantanen would ever sign here.

Seriously, just because the Flames have cap space now doesn't mean they need to blow it on ufa's. Just sign Coronato/Wolf/Zary to 8 year deals and be happy with the flexibility.
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Complaining about the thought of adding a top 10 forward/player in the league for free because he’s 28 is by far the most HFBoards I’ve ever read, so thanks for the chuckle. If Makar actually wants to come home and sign with us when his contract is up, imagine how screwed we would be if we agreed. I pray that McDavid didn’t wear Calgary Flames pajamas growing up, our organization wouldn’t be able to help themselves.
 
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Complaining about the thought of adding a top 10 forward/player in the league for free because he’s 28 is by far the most HFBoards I’ve ever read, so thanks for the chuckle. If Makar actually wants to come home and sign with us when his contract is up, imagine how screwed we would be if we agreed. I pray that McDavid didn’t wear Calgary Flames pajamas growing up, our organization wouldn’t be able to help themselves.
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Definitely one of the most HFBoards of all-time lol :nod::sarcasm:
 
lolwut murray edwards is that you

"We shouldn't sign more wingers even if it's Rantanen. We need elite centres and defencemen."

"lol you'd probably turn down McDavid and Makar"

Honestly, the leaps in quote unquote logic are baffling. But anyway comparing literal generational players that play defense and centre like Makar & McDavid to a winger like Rantanen is hilarious in so many ways
 
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lolwut murray edwards is that you

"We shouldn't sign more wingers even if it's Rantanen. We need elite centres and defencemen."

"lol you'd probably turn down McDavid and Makar"

Honestly, the leaps in quote unquote logic are baffling. But anyway comparing literal generational players that play defense and centre like Makar & McDavid to a winger like Rantanen is hilarious in so many ways
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Sorry how could I have been so obtuse, would’ve been much more relevant if we had the terrifying possibility of adding Pastrnak for free. He’s even worse, he’s about to turn 29 which was terrifying to type. Kucherov age starts with a 3, i’d hate if Tampa asked for a bag of pucks to add him to our team. Imagine how ruined our franchise would be.
 
I'm all for Rantanen, we aren't going to bottom out as long as Wolf is here, so we need to find other ways to build up the team besides sucking for high picks and Rantanen addresses needs that we have. Dude is the top goal scoring UFA available, he'd immediately improve our PP... there is also a chance Rantanen followed the Flames as a kid since he grew up just outside Turku, where Kipper is from and he's of the age where there were a lot of Flames fans there because of Kipper.
 
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Lunatik said:
I'm all for Rantanen, we aren't going to bottom out as long as Wolf is here, so we need to find other ways to build up the team besides sucking for high picks and Rantanen addresses needs that we have. Dude is the top goal scoring UFA available, he'd immediately improve our PP... there is also a chance Rantanen followed the Flames as a kid since he grew up just outside Turku, where Kipper is from and he's of the age where there were a lot of Flames fans there because of Kipper.
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I am still shocked that there is somebody who isn’t. Every complaint about Calgary starts with we lack elite talent, how does someone not like adding a top 6-10 forward in the NHL to our group? We could win the 1st overall pick this season and we don’t get Rantanen. 50% of drafts don’t have a Rantanen caliber player in them, yet he’s late 20s so we’d rather draft a worse player.

Do some posters think we are magically going to get worse these next 1-2 years? Like how do you drop this team 16-20 places in the standings? Trading 3 top 5 defenseman, 2 top 6 forwards, and our starting goalie didn’t do it. Before anyone says “We wouldn’t be here without Wolf?!”, in all situations we are 19th in xGF% at 50.0 even, we still aren’t as bad as people to this day try to say.
 
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Some Other Flame said:
Building around two post apex wingers on massive contracts would be dumb as hell but also entirely on brand for the Flames under this ownership. Thankfully pretty much zero chance Rantanen would ever sign here.

Seriously, just because the Flames have cap space now doesn't mean they need to blow it on ufa's. Just sign Coronato/Wolf/Zary to 8 year deals and be happy with the flexibility.
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With kadri here, odds aren't great but still higher than zero.
 
Yepthatsme said:
I am still shocked that there is somebody who isn’t. Every compliant about Calgary starts with we lack elite talent, how does someone not like adding a top 6-10 forward in the NHL to our group? We could win the 1st overall pick this season and we don’t get Rantanen. 50% of drafts don’t have a Rantanen caliber player in them, yet he’s late 20s so we’d rather draft a worse player.

Do some posters think we are magically going to get worse these next 1-2 years? Like how do you drop this team 16-20 places in the standings? Trading 3 top 5 defenseman, 2 top 6 forwards, and our starting goalie didn’t do it. Before anyone says “We wouldn’t be here without Wolf?!”, in all situations we are 19th in xGF% at 50.0 even, we still aren’t as bad as people to this day try to say.
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I would say that we are where we are because of both Wolf and Huska, he really has this team playing very well and he can't magically make us more skilled. Adding Rantanen and another top 4 defenseman (say Lindgren) would be absolutely massive.
 
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