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Originally Posted by saillias
I don't have a link because this was an offhanded quote in October-ish, but I'm pretty sure Feaster said exactly that, word for word, Roman Horak was a victim of the numbers game because he was not waivers eligble.
Furthermore, contrary to popular belief the current Flames team isn't really that young. There are other, better teams out there, who are not only better right now but inserting more young talent into their rosters on a yearly basis. We are still failing in that regard
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I don't dissagree, but you are incorrectly identifying the problem. The problem is not "we aren't inserting enough young talent" by choice, we aren't inserting enough young talent, because as you point out, we don't have enough.
Having Horak "plug" a role during this rebuild is not a positive thing. He's simply not good enough, and being excited because we have him in the line up simply because he's young is silly. We need to acquire more young talent that pushes the crappy vets we have on this team out of jobs. Playing young players who aren't good enough to do that doesn't help our rebuild, in fact it hurts it because it lowers the quality of team mates our few good prospects (like Monahan and Brodie) have to play with and learn from.