[Caged Great]

I know what you mean. Hopefully Potter gets sent down there and they then ship out guys like Stevenson and Cundari. If you have a defensive lineup of Potter, Yonkman, and Wotherspoon playing almost every game, and cycling in Ramage, Kulak, Culkin and Sieloff on a rotation, then the overall talent level down there will be improved. Unfortunately that doesn't help today.

The other problem is that usually teams have more veteran forwards as well. Fortunately/unfortunately, the flames have a lot of quality young forwards in the AHL, where it wouldn't be in their best developmental interest to get rotated in in favour of a vet or two.