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Originally Posted by Textcritic
I wish people would stop saying such outlandishly hyperbolic things like this. We are hyper-focused on our favourite team, and this tends to badly cloud our judgement of everyone else. Jankowski would play on pretty much every team in the Leauge. He is at worst a slightly below average fourth liner at the moment, but given his pedigree, his individual skills, his results from the past two seasons I am quite certain that even at his salary there are multiple teams that would take a chance on him. Of course, at the beginning of the year when most teams are healthy or adjusting to the season these sorts of deals will end not to happen.
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At this time of the year? That would be somewhat unsurprising, but that is not an indictment of Jankowski, nor the Flames depth.
Let’s see how this plays out a bit before pontificating about Jankowski’s and Ryan’s apparent uselessness, or MIkael Backlund’s supposed ceiling as an “okay third line centre.”
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Hey those are all your opinions and I respectfully disagree. But that last part I’ve never said. Although I assume your speaking more too everyone in this thread that’s down on the team rather then my specific post, but since you quoted my post I thought I should address it.
If you ask me our top 4 is elite. I don’t necessarily think they’re the best as a sum of all parts and the way they compliment each other. And that is a totally diff conversation to have altogether. But individually I would consider each player elite. Backlund is not elite. He is however a more then adequate 2nd line Center. Is there players I’d rather have? Of course. But Backlund is a 2nd liner on our team and at least half the other teams in the league. So you saying that doesn’t tie into any of the point I’m trying to make.
I’ve followed the Flames since 96 as a die hard fan. Watched through many tough years and I’m certainly in no panic. But also having been a member of this board for 17 years now I’ve learned that we as a board over value our players. I’ve learned to err on the side of caution and I really do feel my valuations of what players would net in trades is pretty close to bang on. Maybe certain pieces would excel on other teams in the right situations, but I addressed that our “coveted depth” is certainly not coveted. I don’t think we’re getting any calls about our bottom 6 this year or last and considering that many of these guys have already hit their ceilings that’s concerning. We’re no envy of the league like many posters clamoured at the beginning of the season talking about being the deepest we’ve been in years (and by no means am I saying you were one of those. I didn’t go back to look if you were or weren’t).