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Originally Posted by Roof-Daddy
It's absolutely ridiculous that the Flames biggest need on the blue line is a top pairing guy who can drive the offence from the back end, and despite drafting one of those in the 3rd round 5 years ago, we had to trade him as an add on and couldn't keep him because all he had to do was wait one more year and sign wherever the #### he wanted to.
The Flames could have....no SHOULD have had a Norris quality defenseman on their roster this past season who is STILL ON HIS ELC.
It's an absolute travesty that great drafting like that does nothing to help your team. Why eve have a ####ing draft if more and more high quality future NHLers are going the college route and can basically just choose their own destination if they want to, and no sense of loyalty to a team that drafts them?
This kind of #### makes me not want to follow sports anymore. My favorite team my whole life has been about as mediocre as you can get for the last 30 years, buteven when they do something right they don't get any benefit out of it.
Seriously. Imagine the Flames with a Norris quality Dman on their roster this past year eating up barely more than a league minimum contract. Does that move the needle when it was our biggest weakness on the back end? Yeah, it probably does.
It ain't right.
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The Flames knew the risks in drafting college players at the time, and the entire league knows the risks. When players decide to do what Fox did it is more of an indictment on the state of the team than it is anything else.
Right or wrong, if you're Fox, why the hell would you not use the system (which is what it is and to be quite honest is rarely an issue compared to how many players are actually drafted)? There's no way I'm going to Calgary with a shoddy track record of development on the back end, an extremely underwhelming management group and team results that are abysmal for the last 15 years.
I have no doubt Fox is not even close to the Norris defenceman he is if he had come here. Our lovable GM would have banished him in the minors for a year of seasoning, then third pairing and possibly only now expanded his role in the upcoming season. Even beyond Treliving, the Flames track record of developing top 4 defenceman in the last 15 years starts with TJ Brodie and ends with Rasmus Andersson.....in 15 drafts we are talking 2 players.