i'm not clear on what dreger is complaining/questioning about?
did i miss the news where the flames traded a young asset or high pick for a dman that steps in immediately and making the team better in the standings?
When your biggest offseasons moves are replacing cammalleri with raymond, getting a reclamation in setoguchi, and a bottom pairing d in engelland, think the message is pretty clear on the growth coming organically by the youth of this team growing into their potential. Now, where they land in the standings is anyone's guess at this stage, even management, and if they are in lottery pick range, they are at a stage that it won't be negatively viewed. No one is going to outright suck and help establish a losing culture.
this isn't edmonton.
other than having an insider view on rumous inside the NHL, i find dregger to often state the obvious, but when he goes out on a limb and actually decides to share his own thoughts on things, they seem pretty dumb for the most part.
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