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Originally Posted by moon
I think you let Hanowski play the full year in the AHL.
It's great that he is off to a hot start but he looked really slow in the short stint he had in Calgary last year and behind the play in terms of reading what was going on. I think you let him work 100% on his game and look to him maybe next year or late in the year for a end of the season run of multiple games.
Let some of the other more experienced guys do the up, down, up, down call-ups early on in the season.
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I agree with the premise, but if Hanowski keeps putting up points nightly, I think you have to reward that with a call up. Maybe just for a game or two, but when you are a rebuild team and looking to develop and motivate your prospects I think you need to show that the Flames are watching and willing to reward good work there. I don't think he has a fragile ego or mental state, so if you bring him up as a "way to go" and send him back, it will motivate him rather then crush him. Plus, he put in a ton of work over the summer to get into better shape and now he's scoring back to back two goal games, that's worthy of some recognition.
It's something the Flames have been poor at in years past and I would like to see more of this sort of thing. If you have prospects doing well, they should be brought up and rewarded. Put the focus on what we have rather then trying to bring in some quick fixes from outside the system (yes, directly referring to the Colborne/Horak thing).