Are the Flames straying from their path (with this trade)?

TBH, as much as I’m intrigued about the pieces we got back from that trade, I can’t help but feel like this is a knee-jerk reaction to the team’s surprise position in the standings compared to what most people expected from them…

Didn’t Craig Conroy consider the fact that over the course of this season, Dustin Wolf has carried them to this position, and that the young guys are the ones who are energizing this team in term of generating any kind of Offense?

I can’t help but feel karma is about to strike this team real hard (last night’s loss against Detroit could be the sign of bad things):

-Not only was Pelts an energy forward with decent skill, he was a great companion that helped Huby enjoy playing hockey (and also play better as a result). So why did we need to trade him away??? Pelts was the least of the flames’ problems (this is starting to mimic the time we bought out Martin St. Louis and see him win a cup with Tampa; is Pelts about to do that with the Flyers?) what if Huby is about to fall off a cliff [again] now that his best buddy Pelts is gone?

-look it’s not like trading away Kuzy was a bad thing, but I honestly think Rooney or Barrie or Miromanov should have been part of the package, not Pelts. I haven’t see Flames forward/defenceman so inert like the ones I mentioned above…

I hope Frost and Farabee can prove me wrong, but I just feel this could be a bad omen that the Flames instead of committing to the stand pat/trade away style of (re)building/tooling this team, chose to gamble their future on this trade…

Am I overreacting???