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Originally Posted by Beatle17
I am asking you to back up your beliefs in why the current young players aren't good enough. You stated that the Flames winning these games is going to hurt their chances of getting one of the good players at the top of the draft, yet you have no factual basis to PROVE that MacKinnon/Drouin/Jones will be any better NHL players than Barkov/Lindholm/Monahan. I would rather watch effort to win games than cheer for a draft position.
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I would say the current young players aren't good enough based on what they have shown in junior, NCAA, AHL and to a certain extent the NHL. And not sure exactly what you mean when you think they are not good enough.
I think Reinhart/Horak could be 3rd liners for this team. Baertschi looks like a 1st/2nd liner. Brodie is a 2nd pairing maybe first pairing guy. Backlund weak 2nd line/strong 3rd line center. Don't think Hanowski does much more than 4th liner/AHLer.
Of course there is no proof that these guys are going to be better but I think most (if not all) reasonable/impartial people would say that Jones/Drouin/Mackinnon have a high likelihood of being better than any player on the roster now. In fact I don't really think there is much argument there.
Sure it is not guaranteed, I don't think anyone said it is, but the likelihood that they help us is more than a win against Detroit in a sub-.500 season in which the team didn't play that well.