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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
Well they are drafting better but not accumulating picks...or doing the other things really.
Draft better & Accumulate Picks: Half Check
Know when to move declining assets: Nope
Don’t move long term assets for short term fixes: Nope
Fill the roster with undervalued young players with potential instead of declining veterans: Nope
So yeah...batting like 12.5% here.
And the part that’s even more concerning is that even with that Treliving is still like a top 3 GM in Flames history, and I have no faith the ownership group could actually find a replacement to do a better job.
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Dube Andersson, Kylington, Mangiapane, Valimaki, Jankowski and Bennett all got opportunity and patience with the Flames
The declining Veterans would be Rieder, Gustaffsson, Ryan, Mike Stone, Quine and maybe Forbort. Rather than declining veterans the fill in players with the Flames are NHL replacement players.
Brodie and Hamonic are solid NHL players and might be on the cusp of becoming declining veterans but there is no team in league that would play Kylington ahead of them.
Try to come up with with "undervalued young players with potential" that are being held up.
Yelesin 4 NHL games in his first season in North America?
Gawdwin ?
Phillips?
Czarnik was a bad signing but Dube and Mangiapane did not lose more than a few games to him and yet he put up the best AHL scoring stats of any of the Flames AHL prospects.
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If you want to say that the Flames did not draft enough NHL level players, by trading away draft picks that is totally valid for the half check but they did not block anyone with declining veterans.