Like I kept on saying this is the offseason to be aggressive. We can take advantage of cap pressed teams and get some steals. Would like deals similar to the Islanders deals last in the offseason.
If we can get a top 4 Dman for a couple 2nd rounders, or an okay prospect and some garbage... I mean, Calgary needs to be all over that. Same thing goes for top 6 fowards.
Last year Treliving stayed away from those deals because we had no idea where we were going to end up. And I understand that completely. The Flames just came off their worst year over a decade; and there weren't really any signs we were going to do a 25 point turnaround.
Now that management knows we have a great foundation in: Johnny, Monahan, Bennett, Giordano and Brodie; it's time to go out and start assembling those complimentary pieces; and some of those might come from desperate teams trying to get rid of some cap space for what they might consider non-core pieces (but who just might be exactly that in another team, Ladd, Buff, Leddy, Boychuk just as a couple examples).
The Hawks, Bruins, Wild, Rangers and fringe Flyers, Kings, Nucks and Pens all have cap issues moving into next year. They have a plethora of NHL talent that may have to be abandoned in order to be a competitive team or to get some order again (the last four I mentioned were lower tier or just barely playoff teams; they have high caps for kind of 'meh' teams).
