Not a Flames fan, but do me a favor: go look at the Flames' cap page, and look at how much cap they have available for next year.

Now let me know how they're going to fit all $5.5M of Josh Anderson without moving someone.

We can argue about whether or not Josh Anderson has value and what that value is, but I think everyone can agree that Josh Anderson is not the type of player that you put yourself in a situation where you *need* to dump someone else to get under the cap.

I know! Lucic would probably have to come to mtl. I don’t care about that. I just want to have opinion on the prospects

Not talking about this year - talking about 23-24. Calgary already has $81.7M in cap obligations for next year with 10 F/6 D/2 G under contract. Even if you think the cap jumps to $86.5M they *still* would need to clear at least $750K to fit Anderson. And that would be a 19 man roster. I just don't see a way to fit Anderson on to the Flames without Montreal retaining way more than they would want to, or with the Flames having to dump a significant amount of cap.

It would be difficult that’s why I said it won’t happen. I just want opinions on prospects

Poirier would be my personal preferred one if the trade was 100% happening and we had the choice which to trade

Still like the upside on him. But, Hughes would probably want a forward. I put Poirier there since I rate him highly

Calgary's pipeline is pretty top-heavy, and these three forwards are probably their best assets. Coronato was picked #13OA in the 2021 draft, so I think he's too high-value to be traded for Josh Anderson. Jakub Pelletier and Connor Zary are both PPG players in the AHL who are close to NHL ready - that plus the fact that they're still on their ELCs would make them insanely valuable to a team as capped-out as the Flames are. Poirier has looked very good in his first taste of pro action so while I think the Flames would put a high value on him, he's probably the most attainable of these 4.

I will argue that even if you ignore the cap, I don't think Anderson is a great fit on the Flames - I don't know if you'd consider him anything more than a 3rd liner on this team - who does he push out of the Top 6? Mayyyyybe Dillon Dube?

I agree. I don’t think any team should go for him. I heard New Jersey is interested, but I doubt that

He has not been linked to the flames by any legitimate sources in 3 years.

Poirier is the only prospect there that I would even remotely consider moving for JA

In Quebec media yes. But, like I said it won’t happen I just want to have opinions on prospects

The big problem is the cap hit/term. Every team that has cap room to add Anderson is probably not a team that's looking for a veteran guy like him, and every team that could get value out of him doesn't have room under the cap for him. I don't think he's a bum, but I think the fact that his cap hit limits his market is going to also limit his return. I think the way for Montreal to maximize their return on an Anderson trade would be to take back a bad contract - the problem is there's just not a ton of them in the $4.5-6.5M range that either a: have more than this year in term or b: isn't already in Montreal.

I totally agree! And it’s more of a what direction that they want to take. If it’s a rebuild we could take a bad contract. Probably more of a draft day move than a mid-season/trade deadline move

No they didn't, that reporter literally just said that Calgary has had interest in him in the past

Ah thanks for saying it then

Blake Coleman... that's it.