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Originally Posted by Jay Random
If you're grooming a player to take over Giordano's spot on the team, you're not talking about replacing 37-year-old Giordano, but Giordano in his prime. The problem is that Giordano himself is not capable of filling that role anymore. The solution would have to be to find another player who can. Connor Mackey is very unlikely ever to become such a player, and I believe the Flames know it.
Nobody ‘grooms’ a player to become a #4 defenceman.
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Giordano was lining up with the likes of Dmitry ####ikov on Moscow Dynamo at 25. (To be fair, he probably learned a lot for Danil Markov that year).
Mackey's projected as a top 4 defender, no? Or that range.. Maybe Valimaki pushes him out... Calgary's defence is still pretty young. Number one guy? May have to address that from outside the organization.
Mark Giordano may have a few more years left in him, but I'm not sure its with the Flames.