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Originally Posted by Textcritic
This doesn't make a lick of sense. Having or not having a first round pick in the upcoming draft has virtually no bearing on the Flames' performance this season. I guess you could argue that it is a concern after the next three or four years when the 2018 draftees will start to make their mark, but the only way this is a present concern is if you believe that their first round pick is in danger of landing in the top-five. It is not.
It is laughable to think that the Oilers are a fast team. McDavid is fast; the rest of the team much, MUCH less so.
I will agree that the Leafs skated circles around the Flames in Calgary, but the script was completely flipped in Toronto. CBJ was clearly the better team in their only game so far this season, but the Flames have a 1-1-1 record against them in their last three. These examples don't appear especially compelling.
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I never suggested that the Flames were a fast team, but neither do I think they are especially slow. In any event, they appear more often than not to be "fast enough" to win on a regular basis.
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Completely disagree with you. Not having your 1st and 2nd round picks has an effect on this current team because first of all we traded them to acquire players to help us this season and onwards. But it also raises the expectations for this team and that affects this team mentally from the top of the organization and all the way down. Also, if this team were to end up missing the playoffs and our pick ended up being a lottery pick, I guarantee a meltdown here and that goes for the team’s upper management as well.
For your second point, I already addressed it in my previous post. A supposedly “slow” team like the Oilers have made us look slow, so by that logic we must be a different level of slow then. For the record, I think we’re actually closer to average, but to not have any especially speedy players on the bottom 6 or any particularly heavy players, it doesn’t give this team much of an identity for bottom 6 and especially the 4th line. We also have a coach that likes to roll all 4 lines and when they have a very average or below average skillset, you get very average or ineffective performances a lot of nights.