Hockey is a sport where attitude, effort, and team identity can trump talent. Building a team around 30+ vets on guaranteed long term contracts was just a bad idea.
Currently the team is really a score by committee type of situation. If a couple of these young guys can elevate their game and emerge as leaders, the Flames could really surprise next year.
Of all the vets we had, I think Cammy and Glencross are two solid choices for mentoring roles next year. Glencross for obvious reasons. As for Cammy, some people called him out for his comments in Montreal. To me that just showed he needed to win. He was already on a large multi year contract at that point and could easily have sat back and done nothing.
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