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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.
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omparisons between the rosters of today's Blues and the Flames when Bouwmeester joined the team. I can see the similarities.
However, my entire post was about the obvious impact to Bouwmeester's game that comes from the coach he is playing under. Regardless of the other names on the roster when Bouwmeester was a Flame, Sutter was the coach up until this last season when Hartley took over. When Bouwmeester was deployed under Hartley he was a totally different player. He was still good defensively but he was able to impact the game a lot more by using his speed to generate offense.
Even if the two rosters were identical between the 2009 Flames and the 2014 Blues, the difference that you glossed over is that they have Hitchcock as a coach and we had B.Sutter.
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Originally Posted by FAN
No. Bouwmeester simply isn't an elite player. If he "needs to be in a more secondary role on his team" then he isn't an elite player.
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I believe he has elite speed, skill and ability but he doesn't have an elite personality. He duitfully did what his coach wanted from him even though it made him look like a worse player than he actually is.
To you that means he is nowhere near Elite status. To me it means he is "Elite Lite".