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Originally Posted by ricardodw
Your comment on Dube and Mangiapane needing to be on the top-6 on this Flames teams brings back memories of 2009-2010 team that somehow got the cap messed up.
On that team Iginla, Langkow, Bourque, Jokininen Glencross were the top-5
this year teams equivalent: Iginla = Gaudreau, Langkow = Lindholm, Monahan = Jokininen, Bourque= Tkachuk and Backlund= Glencross.
Boyd and Dawes = Mangiapane and Dube.
I remember wanting Dawes and Boyd to succeed and was disappointed that Boyd was not given a "full" chance.
After they were gone it stuck home that their being in the top 6 was a clear sign of a messed up use of the salary cap.
On that Flame team Bouwmester, Regehr, Phanuef/White and Sarich ate up a lot of cap as do Gio, Hanifin, Andersson and Tanev on this year's version.
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Boyd and Dawes were basically out of the NHL after they were done in Calgary.
Mangiapane and Dube are nothing like these two and should be in the top 6.
I’m not really seeing the advantages to playing every line equally right now as we have just gotten worse under Sutter. Didn’t think that was possible but here we are.
I feel like now is a time that the coach should be mixing up the lines and experimenting. And when I say this I mean completely different looks because they seem so adamant about keeping certain players together it’s absolutely maddening.
It isn’t working right now so why are we continuing to throw out the same lines and pairings?