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Originally Posted by Mr.Coffee
Except that Stajan and this crew of vets gets us to 27th place. So while you get people saying look he can score up to 20 goals, that's great but he is part of a bigger problem where you have a team that doesn't win as much as it needs to.
Also the discussion is actually quite different this year. This is the first year in a long time we've had a large pool of very good prospects that are probably NHL caliber, yet because we needlessly signed people like Setoguchi, now get to play in the AHL. It just isn't the right message in my mind.
If you look at how this team has handled all of its' prospects over the last 20 years or so, it's done a very poor job of establishing NHLer's. To run around defending the same organizational behaviors therefore (sending kids down when they're actually ready), seems awfully strange.
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I don't want to give the impression that I'm "running around" defending anything here, but I still doubt that Bärtschi had such an outstanding camp that we can without reservation say he deserves a spot over the competition.
It's not enough to be ready. You still have to prove that the team is better with you in the lineup.