When the team was 50+% older players (e.g., 28-29 and up), saying "Hey, they might surprise..." was rather foolish. At that point, outside of maybe a handful of surprises in the league, you KNOW what those players can do at the NHL level.
Now that the Flames are looking to be be 50+% younger players, all bets are off. What Sven Baertschi and Roman Horak were last year probably isn't going to be what they are this year. And the same goes for basically everyone under 27.
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