I didn't know whether this thought deserved its own thread But I ended up putting here.
Basically motivated by seeing the Jets call up young prospect after young prospect and remain relatively competitive I wondered why the Flames prospect pool was not able to do the same.
So for the Canadian teams I created a list of the players that were under 25 that have played at least 1 NHL game for their team as well as the same list for players 30 years and older. To the Canadian teams I added the top and bottom 2 non-Canadian teams to the mix.... NYR, Chi, Car, Arz.
The results were very surprising, going against the generally accepted theory that the Flames were a young team and suffering through development pains
The chart caterogized the Number of players in the age groups and the total # of games that particular cohort have played
under 25 games
wpg 16 181
Car 14 154
Tor 12 141
edm 10 138
Arz 13 137
van 11 124
NYR 10 118
cal 9 109
Mtl 8 88
chi 6 79
Ott 9 78
30+ games30
cal 9 104
Mtl 7 102
chi 8 98
van 7 96
wpg 6 74
Car 6 72
Ott 5 70
Arz 6 61
NYR 4 53
Tor 4 38
edm 3 34
IMO this is an absolutely disastrous profile for a rebuilding team. It looks like a profile of a long winning team that is hanging on to older players at the expense of youth because of past glory.
Burke and Treliving need to be reviewed right now and held accountable for their management of this teams resources/assets.
It is bad enough that the Oilers are all in in rebuild mode but Vancouver has more young games and less 30+ games than the Flames. and they haven't yet pulled off the rebuild bandage with the Sedins.
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