[Arya Stark]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

Setoguchi has been an every day NHLer for the past five full years—since back before Baertschi was even drafted—and has compiled a resume that includes over 400 NHL games. Are you seriously suggesting that Beartschi should feel slighted for his AHL assignment when a player with +350 games and +100 goals to his credit is still with the team? Come on.

And? Should we bring in Cheechoo as well because he's scored 50 goals? Setoguchi is done, he rode the coattails of Thornton and his career is now going to be over pretty quickly. There is a reason why he's jumping from team to team and can't stick.

The slogan is what it is. A slogan. It means something to the coaches and the players, but not necessarily what you think it ought to mean.

Then why make that slogan public if you seem to think it has some different meaning?

And no, I highly doubt that Flames prospects are unanimous in their determination to cut bait as a result of having been cut from this team.

I highly doubt that too, who said they were?

You seem to think that the coaches and managers at the helm are amateurs who have no understanding about how to relate to their workforce. I am relatively confident that they have a better handle on things than any of us posting on this message board.

I never said that at all. This is a horrible way to respond to a post on a message board. 'We are all dumb because we aren't running a hockey club" is what I get from that sentence. No, they're not all amateurs but as we can see with Kevin Lowe in Edmonton, the right decisions aren't always made. I have no problem criticizing the Flames when I think a player is wrongly cut, that doesn't mean I think I am smarter than Burke or Treliving it just means I think he deserves to be up over a player who showed absolutely nothing in training camp in Setoguchi.