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Originally Posted by Sofa GM
At the end of the last Trade thread lots of talk of graduating up guys like Phillips, Ruzicka and Gawdin…… we have way too positive of light on our prospects. These guys are PTO fodder in the rest of the league guys come on. Gawdin is a plug, looked completely lost in the time he got into the line up. Probably need to give another brief, and very brief, look at Phillips. Everyone always compares him to other small guys such as Yamamoto or Caufield, but he isn’t in that class. He isn’t strong enough on this skates relative to those other guys so probably won’t be able to transition to the NHL. These are a group of career AHLers, let’s accept that and quit putting them on pedestals like they are the next group of saviours.
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The only players in our farm system that I think could make our roster and add any value are Mackey, Rinaldo (not sure if he was in the AHL), Robinson and Kylington. All are free agents and I’m not sure if Rinaldo and Kylington aren’t considered roster players. Pelletier might also be good enough but I’m judging that on the world juniors.
If they were on the roster they would be 4th line or bottom D pairing players.
But straight AHL call ups? There’s literally almost nothing. That’s the Flames real problem and why there’s so much talk about free agents or rebuilds on here.