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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.
edit: this was in response to Henry above
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Yes the team has had horrible prospect development but that clearly has changed drastically. The thing about Setogouchi is we have to play him, it would be unwise to sign a UFA and never give him one game. Jooris, Baertschi, Sieloff, Ferland, Granlund they'll all get a few games. If they can't stay on the team it's because they aren't good enough. It's complicated to manage a roster with so many different kinds of contracts.
I definitely have more faith now than the GM's that traded away our picks and the coaches that didn't practice the powerplay. Seems like the team really turned a corner in terms of developing their assets.