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Originally Posted by Caged Great
Well, we did go on a winning streak on the back of having a bunch of rookies making their NHL debuts after Iginla/Bouwmeester left. Usually, rookies play good for their first couple of games and then trail off. Unfortunately, in terms of our current draft pick, we kept putting new guys in that kept the spark going. If the season was 82 games, we likely would have been 5-10 points worse than everyone else.
Unless we somehow rip off several other teams for legit stars or #6 + Baertschi put up huge numbers, I don't see how we'll be able to get enough points in the standings to be better than other teams. We have no starting goalie, only 3 legit nhl D-men (Gio, Wideman, and Brodie), and 4 second liners in Tanguay, Cammalleri, Glencross and Baertschi. Other than the maybe Panthers, I don't think anyone is worse than the Flames over an 82 game season. Luck can sway a team a bit, but usually a team that's as bad overall as the Flames usually falls in the bottom 5 give or take.
Our team is currently worse than the Oilers teams that kept getting #1.
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You forgot about Hudler and a lesser extent Stempniak. Hudler is a long term high paid guy.... I don't think he or Stempniak ever was a fit with the Flames but a lot of folks on this board do and they will be playing 2nd-3rd line on some NHL team over the next 3-4 years.
When you go glass half full.... the Flames have an abundance of guys that will be making millions playing in the NHL over the Next 3 years,
Right now the Flames roster looks weaker than normal.... because they have dumped 19M in salary.... Iginla, Bouw and Kipper..... the roster will look a lot better when some of this money is spent..... Clarkson, Horton and Bernier would be a significant upgrade on 2012-13 Iginla - Bouw and Kipper. and would come in at a lot less than 19M.