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Originally Posted by fotze
This team combine thing seems ridiculously inefficient and just a game of posturing between the teams. Dumb?
So 30 kids are supposed to fly around north america to 30 different teams doing fitness tests and other stuff?
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That they could not have done in Toronto?
With the small NHL club of Coaches, GMs and scouts there are little chances of some unique drill that the Oilers thought of and the Flames didn't think of.
Seems that it would make more sense having the combine have the players for 2 or 3 sessions that run through drills that are submitted by the individual teams.
Alternatively why wouldn't the Flames just rent some ice at a Toronto arena and hold the sessions there?
It is not like these prospects are free agents that have to be impressed with the City or the organization. They go to the teams that draft them and have very little option ..... unless you are Erixon.