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Old 03-14-2013, 07:57 AM   #18
Frank MetaMusil
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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction View Post
I totally forgot about Igor (Gary) Kravchuk. That guy had a lot of haters, but I kind of liked him. He seemed like a nice guy in all the interviews.

I also remember Stillman had a lot of haters, but in retrospect, we'd be lucky to draft a player as good as he was in any round.

It's funny when you look back and see how many good players went through Calgary only to have greater success once they left. We can talk about drafting and money being the key issues (which they they were big ones for sure), but management made some terrible decisions. Not referring to the Stillman trade as it worked out good for us, but St. Louis, Savard, Nylander, Giguere, and Roloson were all assets that were not managed well. Add to that, players that we acquired that never came as advertised (Weimer, Nazarov, Corbet, Leeman if you go back far enough), the past management sucked at assessing talent.
They were basically punked off for cap space.
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