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Originally Posted by ricardodw
He is in a very similar situation in St.L as he was when he joined the Flames --- The Flames were a given to making the playoffs... making it 5 straight seasons.
Phanuef was used in the promo for the Olympic squad and would have been rated as highly in September 2009 as Pietroangelo is today. Regehr was expected to get an invite and a good look to make that Olympic team .....and would have been rated higher than Jackman ever was.
Kipper was in net and the top forwards Iginla, Jokinen, Langkow, Bourque and Glencross were easily comparable to Backes, Oshie, Steen, Stewart and Berglund.
The biggest change to the solid successful Flames teams from 2004 - 2009 was the addition of Bouwmeester and Jokinen and the loss of Cammalleri, Bertuzzi and Aucion. It forced a series of events that the Flames are digging out from.
Will the addition of Bouwmeester to the Blues turn out differently?? Time will tell.
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The biggest change to the Flames was an old team getting older with no young replacements coming in.
Adding talented players like Bouwmeester wasn't the issue at all and the Blues improving their team by signing Bouwmeester to their team won't hurt them at all.