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Originally Posted by Harry Lime
Even quite a few posters in this forum believe that any AHL graduation will result in disaster. It's not just the Flames, it's something in the water in Calgary.
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There's a league filled with players who "just got a chance" and took it and ran with it to heights that have surprised everyone.
Yet here we sit all year long having debates about "what has he done to earn his chance".
For pity's sake, we iced a team last year that played Troy Brouwer for 76 games - he did nothing - nothing, for 76 friggin' games. Matt Stajan played 68 games, and did nothing. Matt Bartkowski, Chris Stewart, Tanner Glass...call it a lack of depth or whatever, but we had better options at the NHL and AHL level to play those minutes. It was pure idiocy that the players mentioned above were played as much as they were.
"Who else could they play"
Eatbread, Foo, Kylington, Andersson, Wotherspoon...if you trust your head coach, you trust them to help young kids along at the NHL level. I'm hoping we see a lot more youth and speed injected into the line-up under Peters.