Quote:
Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Couldn’t disagree more about assets. Flames are extremely asset rich. You seem to think assets = picks and prospects. But young proven NHLers are also valuable assets and that’s where the Flames shine.
High value assets include: Gio, Hamonic, Brodie, Gaudreau, Monahan, Tkachuk, Lindholm, Hanifin, Andersson, Valimaki, Dube, Rittich
Flames are swimming in high value assets compared to any time in the past 20 years. I’m not sure how a long term Flames fan like yourself can conclude anything but that. This is literally the most asset rich they’ve ever been in my time of following them. We have 4 star forwards, a wealth of current and future top 4 dmen.
This focus on assets being depth in the minors is completely misguided. I’ll take what the Flames have on their roster over shiny prospects that dont pan out 2/3 the time.
|
In your model high value assets=good players. That is reasonable but I’m not quite so convinced the Flames are as deep in great players as you believe. I hope you’re right and the return for some of those guys will exceed my expectations but I think you’re overly optimistic (Stone never did get us that 2nd round pick nor are we swimming in cap space as predicted).
It comes down to results and I certainly hope the optimistic posters are right and the Flames results will start reflecting their views of the good work the GM has done.