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Originally Posted by Vinny01
I don't get your blueline quote you need to move the goal posts a bit because I see the following:
Hamilton 23
Brodie 26
Jokipakka 25
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My mistake, I had it in my mind that Brodie already turned 27.
Either way, this was our blue in the last game:
32-23
26-33
28-33
That is not a young blue line in any way. An the one player younger than Brodie is a player the Bruins took a chance on, as they are doing right now with 19 year old Brandon Carlo. Would Brandon Carlo be a Calgary Flame or back in Junior if the Flames drafted him? I think the latter.
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Wideman sucks we all get that and I don't know why GULUTZAN plays him so much but you seem to be blaming Treliving for that.
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I have no problem with Wideman at present, actually. he's a serviceable four/five who has his bad games and his okay games. He's old AF though, with no replacement in sight as there is no way Andersson will get an opportunity to be our 6 or 5 next year no matter how well he plays.
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I don't think it is fair to blame Treliving for veterans being played that is the coaches call.
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The coach plays the players on the roster that the GM gives the coach.
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The Flames are a young team in the fact their top players for the most part are young. Brodie is 26, Hamilton 23, Gaudreau 23, Monahan 22, Bennett 20, Tkachuk 19. All but one of those players was drafted by the Flames.
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Brodie nor Backlund are "young" players. Gaudreau and Monahan are in their prime at this point. That leaves Hamilton, Bennett, and Tkachuk. Two high draft picks and a player where another team took all the development risk.
The Flames might have a pretty young core, but they are not a young team. The average Forward line age or D-pair age is NHL average or older. How many lines can you name that are a young line? I can name Gaudreau-Monahan-X and even then the X is in his 30s most of the time. Compare that to the players flanking rookie Auston Matthews, 23 year old rookie Connor Brown and 24 year old rookie Zach Hyman for some perspective on what actually consistutes "young" in today's NHL. And that's a good Leafs team, I'd bet on them to beat us in a playoff series despite their youth.
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Wideman and Engellend are 2 of the older players on the roster both 34 and both likely are gone over the summer and will be replaced by younger players.
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Will be repalced by who, exactly? More third-rate veterans, pushing the endless cycle of too much cap space into mediocre roster filler that prevents teams from ever being truly competitive. Knowing Treliving he will bring another underwhelming player whose team considers him an expendable cap casualty (think Alzner) and this cycle will continue.
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I think the talk about gifting young players spots sounds very Oileresque.
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The team 10 points ahead of us in the standings with a younger roster?