I thinks that this last 25 games have gotten CP to believe in magic.
This is the magic list so far:
1) Gio the best D-man in the league
2) Gio/Brodie is the best pairing
3) Wideman is the #1 goal scoring d-man in the league
4) Gaudreau was NHL ready
5) Monahan is even better than his rookie year
6) Jooris (a 2nd-tier prospect) is a better NHL player than he was in the AHL
7) Granlund was ready
8) Hillier has turned out to be better than anyone thought
So many things have gone right that it is hard to imagine things going wrong.
Glencross (and Hudler) have been key players who have merely been meeting expectations.
The line between winning (and great team attitude) and losing is very marginal (see the Avs) .
Glencross is a very important player on this Flames team.
To dump him and count on Ferland / Hunter Smith/ Poirier to be the #9 magical thing in being able to replace him just seems to me to be tempting fate.
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