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Originally Posted by kukkudo
And ruin his confidence? Keep him in the AHL for now. This team is way too fragile right now.
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This goes for all our AHL players. We a few having good seasons in the minors, left them enjoy that and keep developing properly. Keep them far away from this [emoji90] show. They are not going to be the make or break difference to get to the playoffs playing garbage minutes with the big club.
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Originally Posted by TheKurgan
I agree with Rhett's rant for the most part. I can take the Flames losing, if we are not talented enough to win that is fine, but the lack of effort or just plain "give a damn" is disheartening. If they don't care enough to put in a solid effort, I can find better things to do with my time than yell at the TV for 3 hours.
If I was Treliving I would send a real hard message to these players. Bouma, Chiasson, Jokipaka to the AHL (if they want to play in the NHL next year they have to start showing they care). Jankawski, Klimchuk, and Wotherspoon called up (Andersson and Kylington still too young). Wideman and Ferland in the PressBox for a few weeks. I think we are stuck with our goalies, maybe trade Elliot back to the Blues in return for our pick back.
Gaudreau - Monahan - Versteeg
Frolik - Backlund - Tkachuk
Klimchuk - Jankowski - Bennett
F. Hamilton - Stajan - Brouwer
Hathaway
Giordano - Hamilton
Brodie - Kulak
Engelland - Wotherspoon
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If only it was that easy. You know, no such thing as waivers, salary cap, etc. Also, why have the potential to lose the players mentioned for nothing. Surely they can garner some return at the trade deadline. Also treating the players like that would reflect horribly on the team. Good luck attracting any decent free agents after that. The smarter play is to tough it out with the current guys and hope they pick it up, if not, there will likely be a mild housecleaning in the offseason.