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Originally Posted by MarkGio
Ducks are showing why you need a properly built roster. The Flames didn't have goaltending and couldn't even muster up a single win. The Oilers don't have experience and they're letting this series slip from them. And they don't normally sign big name free agents. Look at how many players on this team was drafted by them:
-- Getzlaf
-- Perry
-- Rakell
-- Lindholm
-- Fowler
-- Vatanen
-- Montour
-- Gibson
-- Manson
-- Theodore
-- Ritchie
-- Kase
-- Wagner
Not to mention the home-grown drafted players they've parted with, or traded to bring in their current roster. This is why drafting is so important
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Originally Posted by GoJetsGo
To take a lead in the second round of the playoffs?
Might want to hold off touting them as a shining example until they actually go all the way.
They won a cup ten years ago but that has little to do with this roster outside their top two players.
This current roster and the incarnations resembling it haven't been a shining example of post season success in the last few years.
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He's right GJG.
They've won the division 5 straight years and it's mostly because they draft and develop their own players. Sure they haven't won a cup in ten years, but I'd take what they've done over what the Flames have done. Any Canadian fan base should say the same too.