[djsFlames]

Should be targeting a 50 plus point player, price tag be damned. 38 points is teetering between top six and bottom six. This is the kind of thing the team has done before because they were trying to dig in the bargain bin, and that approach hasn't worked when it came to making a palpable impact on the offensive output, but rather has just added another so-so piece to an overall so-so group to continue keeping it where it is.

People can trash the stance all they want but after Raymond, Brouwer, Jagr, Stewart etc.. in an attempt to move the needle, how have any of those worked out? That said if Ryan is merely a peripheral supplementary piece for wining faceoffs on a third line role and they're doing something else more likely to elevate the group then by all means.

And that said, he is young. But let's not be banking entirely on potential this coming season, nor grabbing from one single team that has underwhelmed as much as the Flames have. This coach input shouldn't be so prominent. It's easy to see Treliving really likes Peters the person not having interviewed anyone else for the job but it doesn't mean he has insights to who is going to really elevate the team from his very limited sample size. Maybe picking up guys from winning teams would help with the whole winning thing.