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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
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.
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All I am saying is that we could get a situation where guys play over their heads in some meaningless games. That would cost us position.
I agree with most of what you are saying but to counter I will give you the example of a game in Minnesota where Cundari scored his first goal and seemed to play at an elevated level the entire game, and the rest of the team fed off that.