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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I've posted this before as he did not have a good asset base to work with. He had some good young players but a horrible roster with massive holes to fill and a terrible prospect base. Here's how it breaks down:
The roster consisted of
- leading scorer Jiri Hudler (54 points - one of the lowest top scorers in the league)
- the second leading scorer was Giordano with 47 points
- The top goal scorer was Mike Cammalleri (26 goals) who was now a free agent and walked
- Other key forwards were Mikael Backlund, Sean Monahan, Matt Stajan, Joe Colborne and Curtis Glencross. You also had the likes of Stempniak, Byron, Jones, and Galiardi. Of the entire forward group only Backlund and Monahan were "pre-apex" though Hudler would go on to have an unreal year (his last good one).
- The D consisted of Gio, Brodie, Russell, Wideman, and Chris Butler
- There was no #1 goalie (Ramo, Ortio, MacDonald, Berra)
So let's agree the big league roster wasn't good.
This is the top 10 prospects in the organization as of spring 2014, according to The Hockey Writers.
1. Johnny
2. Emile Poirier
3. Sven
4. Markus Granlund
5. Bill Arnold
6. Morgan Klimchuk
7. Corban Knight
8. Kenny Agostino
9. John Gillies
10. Joni Ortio
Of the group only one turned into a star, and two more turned into below average NHLers (Sven and Granlund) who are now both out of the league.. The rest - nothing there.
So you had a crappy NHL team and a crappy prospect base, except Johnny.
Tree also had a top 5 pick in that draft - used for Sam.. He had two 2nds wasted on Mason Macdonald and Hunter Smith. According to most - Tree had very little, if any say in that draft. It was handled by Burke.
So that's what he had to work with. Pretty poor. Largely because the previous regime got NOTHING out of the core of Iginla, Regehr, Bouwmeester, Langkow, and Kipper.
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Its almost like it was a total rebuild. One that started with total buy in from the fans, media and owners. One that he had time to get right... even if he did start with nothing, which wasn't the case. I listed the assets he started with, they are/were good players. Look around the league for true empty cupboard rebuilds throughout history. This was not the case in Calgary. If you think that it was that terrible, it's your opinion, one I do not share. A true terrible roster and prospect base would've led to multiple last place finishes. Brad started on second base in a rebuild imo and has no idea whatsoever how to advance the runner. He knew it wasn't terrible hence why he tried to accelerate it. It's just he's a bad GM and made all the wrong decisions in trying to do that.
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