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Originally Posted by Strange Brew
Losing Brodie for nothing really hurt.
This team needed Rasmus and Valimaki to really step up this year. Didn't happen.
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I like Tanev and he's been a positive this season but he's not what this team needed. I said after his signing that I'd rather have Brodie and Talbot than Tanev and Markstrom for their contracts. Just spinning wheels and not addressing the core problem of a lack of a top end centre while somehow also squandering assets.
I'm not too worried about Rasmus or Valimaki but neither project to be the kind of difference maker on defence that you need to be a top team. We had/have a real promising playmaking defender but we needed to play Forbort, Fantenberg, Gustavsson, and Prout to secure our first round exits. Meanwhile every game that Stone and Nesterov get in this lost season lessens the chance he makes an impact as a Flame. Good times to be a Flames fan.