[united]

Sad to see Frolik go as he was a great soldier for the team and endured being bounced around the lineup. Unfortunately when your game is based around your IQ with marginal skating, the moment you lose just a step everything falls apart and that seems to be what happened to Frolik. That lost step compounded into him being in situations he had never been in before and couldn't process. All those unforced stick fouls - and there were so freaking many - were plays of desperate recovery after he got to spot a half-step slower than his brain was used to and he panicked.

The odd thing is Frolik is known as an absolute unit physically. I know his workouts were almost exclusively off-ice in the summers, but I wonder if there wasn't quite enough focus on fast-twitch movements or if he's just genetically predisposed to lose them rapidly. Regardless, his fall was tough to watch as he never cheated on effort or for offense.

Hopefully he can refresh his career and grind out a couple more seasons in the league, but the Flames certainly moved on at the right time.