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Originally Posted by Macindoc
I think this would be the better choice, but given the Flames' recent track record of keeping borderline PTO players on the roster for the first few weeks of the season for their toughness until it is abundantly clear that they can't keep up, it wouldn't surprise me.
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This raises an interesting question to me.
Burke is gone. And to be honest past that first draft I didn't see him as much of an influence over Treliving anyway. So now you have Treliving and Maloney at the top of the pyramid, neither of which strike me as a "bring back 70s hockey" types.
Yet Glass last year. The team made a big deal about his standing up to Lucic etc late. They have Prout and Peluso hanging around. Do the players in interviews say they need this? Do they talk about playing their game when they know Calgary has an answer to the Lucic's of the world?
To me that has to be the case or it wouldn't make any sense at all.
At least it's also an organization that has gone skill over size big time in drafting of late ... and that's certainly the story of this camp with Czarnik, Dube and Mangiapane all making noise.