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Originally Posted by RichKlit
I get the complaint about young guys even if you want to ignore all the young players that are on the team but who has pushed and shoved their way onto the roster? Jankowski and kulak that’s pretty much it. It’s as much on players like Foo, Klimchuk, Mangiapane to force the hand of management and in my opinion none of them have.
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Yeah, because Czarnik really forced his way on to his team!
Are we forgetting the Bruins didn’t resign him and allowed him to become a free agent? We are taking a player in the same situation as those guys mentioned, and giving that player a guaranteed contract. Opportunity is not the same. As we have seen with the Calgary Flames, year-after-year-after-year, they have a habit of setting up roadblocks for players to earn their way onto the hockey team, rather than letting the prospects battle it out amongst themselves for a role on the team.
Even when we have a guy step up and show he should stay over an underperforming veteran, the contract status gets in the way the Flames keep the lesser of the two players. It happens every year and is a behavior I wish the team would alter. Just my personal opinion on this practice.
Hey, if Treliving follows this move up by making a trade of Brouwer, Hathaway, and Stone to anyone for anything, I will be much happier about this and other moves. With those three in the mix it very likely that the prospects are not going to get any sort of shake in the pre-season.