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Originally Posted by tko
Leadership, coaching, & youth. Cammy was decent but I believe his goals will be replaced.
Gaudreau, Maybe Sven, a full season Glencross (Maybe), better tending (hopefully). I like what Harley has instilled and I believe it will pay dividends. I don't think they will be as bad as most think.
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so we will be better by maybe having better players.... Leadership; we lost cammy who was high scoring "vet" and replaced him with Raymond; I don't see how leadership has improved, if anything we lost leadership. Coaching; went from Hartley to...Hartley. I can see how we've improved there. Youth...well you said that we improved leadership and then said youth so unless we improved leadership by having less of it. Young players might make a difference, it might also kick us in the butt. Playing 82 games is going to take its toll on young players who aren't used to it or aren't used to the game so we may get better because of youth but we may also get worse because of it. Banking on Glencross being healthy isn't a safe bet and even if he is healthy, betting on him being a difference maker isn't a safe bet either. Better goaltending (maybe)? Again we may have got better but we may have got worse....I don't see Hiller as that much (if any) of an improvement in net.
It's ok to say that you just have a feeling they'll be better but you can understand why people would be hesitant since on paper it looks like a bad team became worse in the Flames case.