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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
And a fair amount has gone wrong this season. Injuries to most of our top players in Giordano, Glencross, Cammalleri, Monahan, Ramo, Hudler, etc. early in the season we lost a bunch of games to flukey 3rd period goals as our Euro goalies were adapting to the NHL.
The argument can easily go both ways. In some ways we!'very been unlucky this season and in other ways we've been unlucky. Personally I doubt we'll see a regression, the only question mark for me is goal scoring. Good chance we'll be better next season IMO.
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True enough. Though I wasn't thinking so much in terms of wins and losses or the state of most of the vets (even if I did mention Gio and Scoreface...). But when you look at the prospects we've recalled, who has been a disappointment other than Sven? Berra maybe, but he was still parlayed into a good draft pick. Horak and Reinahrt a bit perhaps, but Ward and Hartley seem to have nearly all of these kids going the right direction from the moment they don the Flaming C. The injuries have certainly sucked, but those same injuries have given us a chance to both see what these kids can do at the NHL level and reward them for what they've done at the AHL level.