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Originally Posted by mikephoen
So you want Flames player development to be more like Edmonton and less like Detroit?
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No, Edmonton's model is to give the 18 year olds the leadership and top icetime. but nobody can tell me David Jones, Joe Colburne or TJ Galiardi deserved to be on this team over Sven last year. Colburne caught fire in the last half but he was junk when Sven was sent down, the other two were just plain crap on a stick.
And believe it or not, sometimes the AHL isn't the best place to develop players, high talent players sometimes develop better with good NHL players.
And I wish people would stop bringing up Detroit, they got lucky with three late picks in Zetterburg, Datsyuk and Lidstrom. (neither of which played a game in the AHL) before those guys came around the team was pure crap even with Stevie Y on the team.