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Originally Posted by Jason14h
What does this even mean. Of course they were forced to loose someone. Did you think the expansion team was going to pick beer leaguers?
Columbus PAID LV to take Karlsson. If that isn’t giving up on a player what is?
If anything should annoy you it is that Calgary could have traded and protected almost any of these guys, and instead kept Lazar.....
The rules for protection were too harsh, yet the Calgary Flames did not have any player LV wanted and instead they took a UFA.
Just shows how pathetic our talent really is
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I think if the Flames had not protected Lazar, the Knights would have taken him, he really fits into their mold. Then they would have just signed Engelland as a free agent.
Lazar probably would have blossomed as a Knight too.
You can't really say the Flames have bad assets and the Knights took all these great assets. They just hired a really good coach that was able to make them a real TEAM. coaching matters, way more than even the GM. The GM can put a good roster together but if he hires the wrong coach, it won't work. A GM can put a bad roster together (which is what all the experts said after the expansion draft) and look like a genius by hiring the right coach.
In this era of the salary cap and parity, coaching is incredibly important and can be the thing that determines success and failure.