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Originally Posted by Bingo
I think it's important to put Foo in perspective, but I wouldn't write the player off either.
You can never use four games at the end of a season for a team playing out the string with injuries as a gauge of what's to come. The Oilers made that mistake for the better part of a two decades, and I guess they're sort of doing it again with Ratty.
He looked good, quick, and smart in those games.
He won't make the team this year, the club is too deep, so his big thing is going to Stockton and doing what Jankowski did last year. Prove he's out growing the league.
Do that and then he'll get a look and see what he can do. His second half plus his cup of coffee was certainly a good sign, but you can't pencil him in.
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Nice analysis.
Can the same be applied to Kylington? Has he out grown the AHL?
Going into training camp he will be down a slot to #10 on the depth organizational depth chart behind Valimaki.
PS Assumes Prout as #7. Is that a real probability.
One-way contract at 800k. Where did he fit in in Stockton last year when he was making 1.9M.... cap hit of 550K counting against the Flames NHL cap. He must have made a solid impression for the Flames to re-sign him.