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Originally Posted by 5by5
Fact: There was a void on RW that needed to be addressed. It was. As usual, just another mediocre stop gap by Flames management that unfortunately I have gotten used to. Nobody on the farm is ready to make the jump yet and actually that void needs to be addressed in short order too. Personally, I am still hopeful that Knight can crack the lineup on RW this year. What really hurts is this is Treviling's best move yet (except for trying to pick up draft picks via salary dump, and that didn't work out so it really doesn't count). Burke's ego with the Cammy situation cost us a decent draft pick. Like I said at the trade deadline, bad Karma and sure enough Burke didn't disappoint me, cause the Flames got absolutely nothing for him. I am really starting to get worried. I said it before and Ill say it again, Stajan and Jones gotta go. Before you bring on the hate, don't, cause I don't care what you think of my opinions. I was at the very first Calgary Flames game ever and I have seen and been through it all. I've come to the conclusion that some of you, esp those looking for gramatical and speling errors, just need to get laid.
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The issue is; who replaces Stajan and Jones? Stajan is an emergency first line centre that can fill the gap without being a huge defensive liability. I agree they are weak points but we can't just shove Monahan into first line duties, he needs to grow a little or the work load will wear him down. Let Backlund do it? He's a very similar player to Stajan in that neither is a gamebreaker, so who is first line centre until Monahan is a few years older? Atleast we have stopgaps, a stopgap is a good thing in a sense, it stops our future assets from deteriorating before they reach full potential. Let Setogouchi be a foot soldier, he can be in the spot until Poirier steals it from him. I too wish Stajan was gone but getting rid of him without an equal replacement only serves to make the team worse years down the road.
It doesn't really seem like management wants last place, it seems like picking up a free asset that only has upside. It's very similar to Roman Cervenka, he came in and never met expectations but there was no real downside. Even if Setogouchi performs like a league minimum player so what maybe he won't, that's the upside.