I think an agent has to bring up who's he's played with as a factor in his production.
It's in their best interest to do so, and it's largely true!
The Flames certainly have every right to bring him along slowly, and they do have his best interest at heart in trying to develop him into a top six center (bigger future payday).
As I said above though it's really tough on a team with Monahan and a surging Backlund. They have to muck something up to get Sam out of jail, or throw Brouwer to the wolves for three years.
I do lean to finding three lines with some balance this season though, I think that would make the Flames a very tough team to defend; three lines that you have to watch and essentially three defense pairings that won't give you a shift off.
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