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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
He's the only Flames forward prospect to make it to the show this year. He was playing on the team two days ago, and a highly-paid veteran is down in the minors. Spin it however you like, Granlund cracked an NHL lineup. Shinkaruk hasn't. If you want to call Granlund's floor a tweener who bounces between the NHL and the minors, then fine. Shinkaruk's floor isn't even that, as he's far from a blue chip prospect, and Treliving himself calls him a project.
I'm okay with the trade. And I agree that Shinkaruk has more upside. I'm simply pointing out the blindingly obvious fact that Granlund has shown that his floor is an NHLer (even if a fringe one) and Shinkaruk hasn't.
Don't you get it? Now that he's no longer a Flame, at 22 Granlund is a fringe NHLer who is as good as he'll ever get. While players like Ferland (23), Arnold (23), Jankowski (21), and Poirier (21) are still learning the game, and it's far too soon to make any judgement calls about their full NHL potential.
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Bennett and Ferland say hello...
And okay, so his title is 'Fringe NHLer', not NHLer as you previously identified him as. After 80 games in the NHL he's nothing more than a Fringe NHLer. And I don't consider the fact Raymond got waived before him to mean anything. Raymond is complete garbage and has been scratched even more than Granlund this season. It's pathetic that Granlund was ever benched in favour of Raymond which goes to show that Granlund didn't do enough to earn a full-time spot on the Flames.