Mountain Man
Senior Member
The Flames and Oilers should both be tops of the division for a few years. LA had a good season but I see them taking a step back and Vancouver possibly taking a step forward. Vegas should be better than they were as well.
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Roaring Flames
Senior Member
Vegas is close to being in a rebuild. They have nearly no prospects and an aging core and they remind me a lot of the late 2000s Calgary Flames with how they're constantly trading away prospects and draft picks in the hopes of winning now
Edit: Vegas is also in cap hell because of all the massive contracts they've taken on
Edit: Vegas is also in cap hell because of all the massive contracts they've taken on
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Alex_YYC
Senior Member
Vancouver was on quite a nice run after picking up Boudreau and could be a threat next year. They do have a group of good young players, but I think if I’m not mistaken they’ll be over the cap and they’re gonna have to let one of those guys go. This past season it was rumoured that it would be Brock Boeser who would be going, but do you want to keep JT Miller? He was a driving force for the team last year but he’ll be 30 next year. Also I think last year was a career season for him.
Cowtown
Senior Member
Hard to say will happen top Vancouver next year. They looked good in stretches the last half of the season, but it's not uncommon for teams that are out of it to play well.
Cowtown
Senior Member
Thinking thew same thing. SJ is also on the way down, or is close to the bottom of their cycle. Anaheim feels like a team on the rise.
Alex_YYC
Senior Member
San Jose is definitely a team on the bottom of the cycle. When you think about it they have been a good competitive team for a long time. Even though they haven’t won a cup, they have been to the conference finals five times in the last 17 seasons. It’s about time they are on a down cycle.
Anaheim has some good young players but I’m not sure where they are at yet. We’ll see how they play next year, if they have another decent season then yes there are probably a team on the rise.
Anaheim has some good young players but I’m not sure where they are at yet. We’ll see how they play next year, if they have another decent season then yes there are probably a team on the rise.
BKha
Active Member
At the time I thought it was a good deal, but it looks looking like a shitty deal now.That sounds like a really shitty deal, but I don’t know anything about hockey so
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Starting to think we are going to lose Gaudreau or Tkachuck this summer, should have had Johnny signed by now. Both players are worth $10M easy, and we only have $25M in cap space with Johnny, Chucky, Mangiapane and Kylington all needing a contract...
Roaring Flames
Senior Member
Sounds like the name of our new AHL Club will be the Calgary Wranglers. CSEC registered the domain name calgarywranglers .ca back in June and they already own the trademark for the Wranglers name.
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Okotoks or Airdrie or somewhere should jump all over this team!
Rollerstud98
Active Member
I would love it in Airdrie but we do not have a suitable arena.
Roaring Flames
Senior Member
Johnny Gaudreau is entering free agency. Sounds like it was a family decision on Johnny's part. The Flames have no choice but to move on.
Rollerstud98
Active Member
Booourns!
Mountain Man
Senior Member
Hope the Flames make Tkachuck an offer and make him captain. Zadorov will also hit free agency, hope we keep Gudbranson! Wonder if the Flames will try to take Kadri now, never really liked the guy but he had a hell of a season and playoffs in Colorado!
UrbanRED
Active Member
I honestly think the Flames should blow it up, it's painful but this upcoming draft is sooooo good. Bedard is supposed to be as good as McDavid, but even the next several guys are supposed to be insanely good. If we ship out a lot of players we could get so many picks and be set up for contention really well in a few years