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Originally Posted by Textcritic
That is fairly interesting. But I am curious about your claim regarding "very few younger players on the roster." Including Backlund, that's five NHL players on a 23-man roster. If you add Granlund—who I would put in the same bracket as Jooris and Ferland—that's 26% of the roster. Is that actually comparatively low from a league-wide perspective? How many "system graduates" does each NHL team boast? What is the average, and how do the Flames compare?
This is just an instinctive response, but it doesn't seem to me that 6/23 is all that out of the ordinary—and is certainly not to be characterised as "very few." I would guess that it is actually about average, or perhaps a little below average.
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You make some good points but other than Brodie and Backlund, we don't seem to be graduating many impact players. And I suppose another point is whether players grown in the Calgary system are playing elsewhere in the league. I can't think of many.
I guess at some point the proof is in the teams record. The Flames are not a good team with some big gaps in the roster. Generally speaking they have always been active players in the free agent and trade market, which speaks to me of a lack of home grown talent.