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Originally Posted by puckluck
Some of you guys are in full denial mode. The whole world sees it except for a handful of posters here.
The Flames have a bad reputation among young players whether you guys deny it or not. When you go out and sign or trade for bums like Staios, Stajan, Byron Ritchie, and Slowdin you really aren't earning a good reputation among your young players in Abbotsford waiting for their chance.
Hopefully Feaster can do away with the reputation which is real. And that reputation is pretty well earned.
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The whole world also sees what a lot of people here are in denial about, and that is that our prospect pool quality is very low - perhaps the lowest in the league. A lot of these young players that people want to see getting chances, wouldn't even be given a 2nd look on most teams. It's arguable that Backlund would still be in the AHL on a lot of teams.
For the past few years, pretty much every hockey news source has ranked our prospects near the bottom of the league, so it should be no shock that we don't have many making the line-up.