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Originally Posted by MarkGio
I can't believe the Flames only win games when Backlund scores. This team's secondary goal scorer has become the primary goal scoring and the supposed primary players have disappeared.
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By our "primary" players, I assume you mean:
Monahan - 22 years old (4th year pro)
Gaudreau - 23 years old (3rd year pro)
Bennett - 20 years old (2nd year pro)
That's extremely young, and they're all extremely gifted - and what they've all done in their very brief careers should give us more than enough reason to be patient with their development. I'm definitley happy that our veteran players are around to help cushion some of these hard development years - as that's why they're here. Edmonton didn't have vets like Backlund and Frolik around to help lift the burden off their younger players, and their rebuild was greatly hurt by that.