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Originally Posted by the_only_turek_fan
The Flames playing the crap out of their rookies last year cost us Nathan Mackinnon.
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That's a questionable assumption. Us calling up rookies didn't cause Jimmy Howard to hand Steve Begin two gift goals. Who knows how we would have played keeping our best defenseman and one of our best wingers. To suggest we would've played worse with them seems questionable.
If you really wanna blame anyone for costing us the 1 pick, it probably would be Kiprusoff and his improved play late last season.
We really couldn't have done much more to tank except bench Kiprusoff the rest of the year. We just weren't as bad as some of those teams last season.
This year we are legitimately that bad.