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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Where are all these 20 and 30 goal scorers the flames have? 40 goal scorers? 50?
Last year, the offensive juggernaut everyone is pining for, had four 20 goal scorers, 1 of them was a defender(!) (gio) and one who did it for the first time in 6 seasons (Backlund).
Where are all these high skill players? Colborne scored more goals than Bennett last year and he was replaced with...Chiasson?
This is an incredible example of the disconnect from reality a lot of posters on this board suffer from.
Who are all these high skilled, high scoring players the flames have who are being stifled under this task master Gulutzan?
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You don't think guys like Monahan, Gaudreau and Gio to name a few are capable of way more offensive output? Brodie? Bennett?
Should young players who score 20 stay at 20? Or is there usually some progression as their careers advance.
If the team is as unskilled as you suggest the rebuild thus far is an absolute failure. The whole point is to be drafting and developing players who can put up numbers. And they can. We've seen it.
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A few weeks after crashing head-first into the boards (denting his helmet and being unable to move for a little while) following a hit from behind by Bob Errey, the Calgary Flames player explains:
"I was like Christ, lying on my back, with my arms outstretched, crucified"
-- Frank Musil - Early January 1994
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