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Originally Posted by playmaker
So here's a possible staring lineup for next year, together with rough number of NHL seasons under each player's belt.
Cammalleri(10) - Backlund(4) - Hudler(7)
Glencross(8) - Stajan(10) - Stempniak(9)
Baertschi(1) - B.Jones(5) - D.Jones(6)
McGrattan(6) / Jackman(8) - Horak(2) / Knight(0) - Galliardi(5)
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Knight is definitely ahead of B. Jones on the depth chart
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Now somebody please explain how "lack of experience" is the problem here ? It's clearly not.
It is ridiculous how often a rebuild mode is being mentioned, where in fact our future core will likely see very little NHL ice time.
This is IMHO what a rebuilding lineup would look like:
Glencross - Stajan - Baertschi
Gaudreau - Backlund - Bouma/Nemisz
Hanowski/Galliardi - Monahan/Reinhart - Granlund/Agostino
McGrattan/Ferland - Jones/Knight/Horak - Aliu/Bancks
Brodie - Breen
Giordano - Ramage
Wotherspoon/Cundari - Carson/Sielloff
Ramo/Berra
I may be wrong but to me it seems that the Flames still live in the shadow of young guns era, afraid to sacrifice one or two seasons to gain an advantage in the long run.
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It's beating a dead horse but there's no guarantee that bottom feeding for 2 years will put us any further ahead than if we try to compete. The Oilers have a tonne of high draft picks from bottom feeding but remain a perrenial loser because they've bred a culture of losing. There is no doubt that Feaster is re-tooling by trading Iggy, JBo, Tanguay, and by not swinging for the fences during UFA frenzy. But there's no need to trade every single player on the roster that has some NHL experience. Sure if we are near the bottom at the trade deadline then get some assets for Cammalleri, Stempniak etc. But why don't we see how this roster performs for a couple of months before completely writing them off. Expectations are low but teams surprise every year, lets see what happens