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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Why on earth would the Flames hang him out to dry?
If you were Treliving, would you try to make one of your assets fail, just so your decision on who to keep was easier?
Is there a universe where that's a good way to run a team?
There is nothing the Flames would like more than to have Ortio claim one of the two jobs in Calgary. That makes the franchise stronger. Then they can try to move one of the other guys for an asset, continue to develop their younger player, save some cap space, and have a goalie that is both under contract for next year, and has some potential to build around.
Setting him up for failure was not their plan.
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as I said, so he'd get lit up and they could move him through waivers.
I think you're pretty naive if the management didn't at least think that was one of the possibilities.
On the other hand they said 'if the kid can play well given this AHL defense, then we really might have something here'
Maybe it's not 'setting him up to fail'.....maybe a better term is 'trial by fire'