I voted wrong.
In my mind Gaudreau has already made the jump.
I picked Wolf and Knight and Sieloff and expect them to get 20 NHL games this year....
But Gaudreau will be getting to play as many games as he is healthy.
Knight is the strongest physically of the top AHL guys last year and Raymond, Hudler and Gaudreau are all the small skilled guy the Flames will be able to manage.....
When Knight came up to the NHL he was smart enough to follow the lesson that Byron learned over the years.... If you aren't going to score 20-30 goals in the NHL you had be ready to bump into some players on the other team.
Granlund and Rienhart played like they figured they had enough skill to play in the NHL.
If one Raymond/Hudler/Gaudreau gets injured then look to Granlund to get some games in.
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