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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The guy I feel bad about is Foo. He gets lured to Calgary as a free agent out of college because there are only 3 or 4 guys ahead of him on the Flames depth chart. Plays himself onto the roster in the final weeks of the season. Now there are 6 or 7 guys ahead of him.
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Foo could use another season in the A - he had a solid but unspectacular first season as a pro. The cold start didn't help.
This is how I view the forward turnover:
Ferland is gone, Neal in.
Jagr is gone, Lindholm in.
Stajan is gone, Ryan in.
Versteeg is gone, Czarnik in.
I also think the Flames are done using the 13th and 14th forwards as pure injury sub-ins, from the sheer amount of forwards added in the last two weeks. You need them to be more than just a warm body now with all this depth. You need to be able to switch them comfortably if someone's on a cold streak. If your 13th and 14th forwards are Brouwer and Hathaway you're in decent shape.