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Originally Posted by soulchoice
Agreed on the adjustment period. However, Valamaki is not a key player/injury and is no where near the same level of importance to the Flames as Morrisey and Buff are. Those are two of the top dmen for the Jets.
Nonetheless the flames played as good as I expected. Need to get that PP going.
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as a raw rookie, i agree that Valimaki isn't at the level of Buff or Morrissey... that said, out of training camp he was considered better than Andersson
if he didn't get injured, i'd confidently say his trajectory would have been at minimum the same as Andersson's, possibly even better
despite the admirable job that Kylington/Fantenberg have done on the third pairing, Valimaki and Andersson would be a pairing that could be considered as good as a 2nd pairing...
that said, great effort by the team on short rest...just couldn't beat the posts tonight