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Originally Posted by Love
This is only so frustrating because this team is 95% so good.
Ferland with Mony & Johnny? Great.
3M? Great.
Gio/Dougie? Thumbs up.
Brodie/Hamonic? Yes please.
Stone as our#5 D? Amazing.
Versteeg and Bennett can't wait for Jagr to get here soon enough.
Bartkowski is a block head.
Tanner Glass is not good.
Brouwer is an anchor.
Jankowski is a 6'5 2 way forward with size, skill, hands and defensive awareness. He brings something other than useless "energy" for 5 minutes a night. He has nothing left to learn from the AHL anymore. We've all seen those statistics posted that have demonstrated how he was in the 99th and even 100th percentile for AHL production. He is an NHL'er. He lit up the preseason. I don't care if the plan is to have him up by game 5. He gives us a better chance to win tomorrow than at least 4 of the forwards playing above him, and for that I am upset.
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Sure he gives us size and some nice intangibles but if you throw him in while Jagr and a few other guys are learning a new system it has the potential to set us back. Consider that the Flames organization has to make
rational decisions based on what they know and need to do. GG probably has a mandate from BT and management that they need to start off on the right foot and make sure the players are focused and ramped up and intense. The over reactions by some on here are often irrational because they don't have all the information to support why the decision/s are made in the first place.
Tre is doing all he can to make sure we have the players we need, but there has to be respect for the process because it is a lot harder and more complicated than just snapping fingers.