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Originally Posted by dissentowner
Just like last year this team should have done well. I hope when they show the coaching staff the door they let Huska go as well. He has done nothing with Stockton.
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I dunno man, I'm not really in a place to defend the Flames in any way these days, I'm actually completely fed up with this organization right now, but I don't know how you can fault Huska for the team falling short.
They were tops in the division early on, but then lost Jankowski and Hathaway for the year, then Mangiapane for an extended time. Eventually they lost Mangiapane for the rest of the year to injury.
When Smith got hurt and both Gillies and Rittich were up with the Flames and Lack already traded, they had both Parsons AND McDonald get injured and miss time. Now they were on to goalie #7 and #8 from where the organization was to start the season.
They lost Andersson for a chunk of time.
Klimchuk missed time with injuries.
Foo got called up and was gone for the entire stretch drive.
Hrivic missed a pile of time.
..and on top of ALL that, this is not a team with any AHL ringers on it. They are super young to begin with, and don't have veteran AHL all stars to lean on and that's done on purpose in order to make the youngsters play bigger roles.