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Originally Posted by Red
There are a few players like that every year. We had Foo last year. Edmonton has Caggiula. List is long. Very few of these work out.
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No one was pencilling Foo into the NHL lineup aside from some Flames fans. Management said all along that while he would have a chance to crack the lineup through good pre-season play, that he'd be in tough because he was coming straight from college as was on an entry-level contract and didn't require waivers, whereas Czarnik is older, has had much more success, dominated the AHL for 3 years, and has NHL experience.
He's not a young prospect.
Comparing Foo and Caggiula to Czarnik is not the right way to look at things.
Czarnik could play awful in the NHL and quickly flame out but he's a totally separate situation