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....Monahan is drifting into that Ryan Nugent-Hopkins sort of zone... is this guy really good or is he sort of really good at one thing and a bunch of the rest of his game is not really there...
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Oh, god. So much nonsense.
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I think guys like Jankowski who we want to love cuz he's our pick after all.... just don't have enough skill or grunt to make it in the NHL - another Josh Jooris, a tweener.
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Agreed, but for the small difference that Mark Jankowski is a monumentally better player than 29-year-old AHL regular Josh Jooris.
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And we've got lots of those up front, I hate to say it. We have 1 real dangerous winger. ONE. And teams are booked up on him now. Lindholm might be a second, but he's not REAL dangerous, he's not a sniper, he's a good hockey player - league is full of 'em.
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Matthew Tkachuk??
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...Buncha mediocre wingers, buncha mediocre centermen (I do love Backlund, he works so hard, but I'd love it if he was a 3c). I think our D are good enough, but they can't handle a real fast hard game because the forwards are not a) helping enough and b) dangerous enough. I think these playoffs showed a real weakness in playing style, or maybe in ability...
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This is one of the more impressive under-sells of the Flames on a magnitude I have rarely seen on this site, and that itself is an impressive achievement.
I will counter to suggest that these playoffs perhaps revealed some holes in the Flames lineup, but nothing so glaring as you are asserting here. Or rather, they showed that the second best team in the NHL over the course of the season has a bad couple of weeks. It happens. It doesn’t have to define them.
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