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---Hatrick--- · 08-13-2017, 01:42 AM

First off I'd like to say, Wow... I've never read an article that screamed TROLL so loud and clear. He really seemed to reach on several points and either he is incredibly un educated with The Flames or he is trying to paint an extremely murky picture of the team for other uneducated Flames fans to read.

What really blew my mind was that he mentions the Flames lack of ability to develop players and lack of quality players in the system developing currently. Any educated Flames fan would know that a number of quality players are on the roster currently that were drafted by the Flames. Part of this is simply due to the quality of player drafted and you can call some of them "sure thing" NHLers, however players like Ferland, Brodie, Bouma, Backlund all had to earn their spot on this team as well as their ice time.
Also, no mention of the 4 potential top 4 D men, one of who is being compared to Gio himself, who we have recently drafted and are developing rather niceley I would say. So, yes. Gio may be getting old and will likely become significantly less effective in the comming years and that will really suck to lose him. Having these 4 players developing and constantly improving will soften that blow. Not to mention that they can also become very nice trade chips.

The potential of Gillies, and more so Parsons in my opinion of becoming a good number 1 for us is a very real possibility. We will have to wait and see what we have in them, but it feels damn good to have them both in the system.

As there are no sure fire blue chip forward prospects in the system, you have to like how Jankowski has developed. He's a player that can really bolster our lineup if he translates his game to the NHL. Guys like Shinkaruk, Mangiapane, Porrier, Klimchuk, Foo, Phillips, Hathaway can all potentially become effective NHLers one day as well.

To conclude, the Flames are still no Detroit when it comes to developing bonafide everday NHL players, but to say they have nothing in the pipeline, as this Lambert suggests is completely laughable and shows how unlnowledgable he is of this team, or just how much of a troll he is

08-13-2017, 01:42 AM	#120
---Hatrick--- Scoring Winger Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: Red Deer Exp:	First off I'd like to say, Wow... I've never read an article that screamed TROLL so loud and clear. He really seemed to reach on several points and either he is incredibly un educated with The Flames or he is trying to paint an extremely murky picture of the team for other uneducated Flames fans to read. What really blew my mind was that he mentions the Flames lack of ability to develop players and lack of quality players in the system developing currently. Any educated Flames fan would know that a number of quality players are on the roster currently that were drafted by the Flames. Part of this is simply due to the quality of player drafted and you can call some of them "sure thing" NHLers, however players like Ferland, Brodie, Bouma, Backlund all had to earn their spot on this team as well as their ice time. Also, no mention of the 4 potential top 4 D men, one of who is being compared to Gio himself, who we have recently drafted and are developing rather niceley I would say. So, yes. Gio may be getting old and will likely become significantly less effective in the comming years and that will really suck to lose him. Having these 4 players developing and constantly improving will soften that blow. Not to mention that they can also become very nice trade chips. The potential of Gillies, and more so Parsons in my opinion of becoming a good number 1 for us is a very real possibility. We will have to wait and see what we have in them, but it feels damn good to have them both in the system. As there are no sure fire blue chip forward prospects in the system, you have to like how Jankowski has developed. He's a player that can really bolster our lineup if he translates his game to the NHL. Guys like Shinkaruk, Mangiapane, Porrier, Klimchuk, Foo, Phillips, Hathaway can all potentially become effective NHLers one day as well. To conclude, the Flames are still no Detroit when it comes to developing bonafide everday NHL players, but to say they have nothing in the pipeline, as this Lambert suggests is completely laughable and shows how unlnowledgable he is of this team, or just how much of a troll he is __________________ It was in.