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Originally Posted by Jimdon
Who on the Flames blue line would those guys have replaced and out performed defensively last season?
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Now you're on the right track. The answer is we don't know and it doesn't matter, because the flames were terrible on defense.
The better question is why we paid to bring in defenseman that didn't move the needle and didn't help the team win when we have a surplus of defensive depth on the farm.
Would they have improved the team? Maybe, we don't know. Would they have benefited more from sheltered NHL minutes then they did from playing on the farm? Maybe, we don't know. Would the Flames have been a worse team if Wotherspoon and Kulak started the year as a third paid instead of stone and bartkowksi? I mean, we don't know but I think it's safe to assume we couldn't have been worse.
We had one of the strongest defensive prospect pools in the league coming into this year and we crapped the bed and still have no idea what these guys are made of.