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Originally Posted by Bingo
First off I've never cared about the on ice success of an AHL team. Don't get me wrong, we have lots of guys that cover the team for us, and they care and with that so do I.
But prospect success and AHL standings almost never line up.
The Flames won the championship with Saint John led by Marty Murray, Dave Roche, Rico Fata and Daniel Tkaczuk. Saint John Flames 2001
Specific players can concern me though ... your questions on Poirier are good ... what happened? I think I took it from Huska that he may have thought he had that level beat and either didn't do enough in the last off season or showed up thinking it would be easy. That's an interesting cross roads for a player, so it will be interesting to see what he does this year.
Kylington? No concerns at all.
18 in a new league, in a new country ... plus he was drafted at 60 when once at 5 and needed to learn defense.
He had a great year from my standpoint.
I think the Grants and Agostino's are gone because they don't want the team lead by players that they don't project, but that's just me guessing. |
Going by the St. John Flames history Grant and Agostino may be the players that make it.
St. John did graduate Steve Begin, Blair Betts, Chris Clark, and Steve Montador so maybe it isn't the big names we should be looking at.
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/l...002602001.html