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Originally Posted by Oil Stain
H...NHL scouts have been all over this guy for years. If any of them had seen Calder potential don't you think he'd have been in NA by now?
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You make it sound as though he has been pining to make the move over to NA for years, and was only this summer given the opportunity by the Flames this summer. This is simply not correct. Based on everything that I have read in following the Flames acquisition of Cervenka, the decision to delay his transition to the NHL was his. There was substantial interest heading into the 2010 season, and then following the Olympics and his impressive performance there, but
he chose to remain in the KHL. He has since stated that his reason for doing so was to ensure that he had significant savings before making the move. So, even if there were dozens of teams that saw "Calder potential" in the past—and we have no idea if there were or were not, there was no guarantee that this would have been enough to alter Cervenka's decision.