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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
Pretty frustrating.
This team could really be something, but Bennett's stalled offensive development, Brouwer's offensive game falling off the face of the earth, Janko hitting a rookie wall, and the rest of the 2013 and 2014 draft classes completely whiffing (Poirier, Klimchuk, Shinkaruk, Smith) has left this teams bottom 6 forward group a black hole offensively.
Now it's either patiently wait and see if they can turn it around, or spend more assets shoring up what looks to be the last hole this roster has to left to fill.
Paul Byron would be nice to have right about now though, I don't mind saying. Or even Sven Baertschi, though that one you can't really hang around Treliving's neck. Those two have a combined 25 goals so far this season. More than Stajan, Lazar, Brouwer, Familton, Hathaway, Lomberg, Glass, Mangiapane, Hrivic and Versteeg have combined.
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Yes, very frustrating. If Bennett were to have taken a meaningful step forward this year, the Flames are a much better, much deeper team, maybe even a legitimate contender.
The third line is, and has been, a boat anchor for this team.