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Originally Posted by Psytic
I think the goalie drafting and development team needs revamped. No G seem to develop on the Flames. We have had so many promising goalies and every single one seems to flounder or flatline once they get into the Flames system. McDonald, Rittich to an extent, Parsons, Gillies it makes one wonder if they might actually turn into number 1 goalies in Nashville or someone else's system. Has to be something wrong when they have only had two decent goalies in 30 yrs and one of them was traded for.
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Hard to argue with this - although I think Rittich is still an absolute win. He's a great find as a back-up goalie, but that's what he is. He can be part of a tandem if his partner is notably better than him - and someone he can learn from. Finding Rittich as a free agent is a win, but as a whole - yeah, our lack of goaltending development is either a complete failure on the development or on the scouting of the position - or both, which I think is probably the case. We can't scout goalies at the pro-level (Hiller, Elliott, Smith) or at the minor level (MacDonald over Demko? That's just bad, and they justified it by saying MacDonald had more momentum going into the draft...whatever).
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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
I'd love to see a big trade with the Lightning.
If they could convince Tyler Johnson to waive for Calgary, and package him with Cirelli and Cernak for a package of futures, it would plug several holes on this leaky boat.
Cirelli - young top 6 two way C, just 22 and slots between Monahan and Backlund perfectly
Johnson - right shot top 6 forward who can play W or C (he's buried on the depth chart there, he'd likely flourish with more ice time)
Cernak - young top 4 right shot Dman to slot behind Andersson
I'd be fine with a package that includes any number of the following pieces -> Pelletier, 2020 1st, Dube, Kylington, 2021 1st, Phillips, little Z, Petterson or pretty much any other picks or prospects.
Not all of those pieces, but any combo of them that Tampa might be interested in.
Obviously under normal circumstances they wouldn't move Cirelli or Cernak, but as mentioned a million times, they are in cap hell and both are RFA's that could very easily be signed to offer sheets.
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To me, none of the players you mention are good enough quality. I think when I mention improving the centre ice position it's about pushing Monahan out of the #1 slot. The only way you do that in my eyes is through the draft. If you go look at the top scoring centres, the vast majority of them are still with the teams that drafted them.
(...how the hell we didn't outbid St. Louis for ROR is beyond me. Probably because of the fatal misreading of the team's centre depth and the fact that we had too much cap tied up in a bloated defence group)