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Originally Posted by FormerPresJamesTaylor
Some fans might be, I wouldn't. I've seen various AHL games over the last 20+ years and by and large it's not a cohesive team hockey game. Most players are playing "their" game trying to stand out. It can be sloppy ugly hockey. Junior can be the same but it's more due to young an inexperience which I don't mind.
If the Heat land in Calgary it'll be four a handful of years before they find another solution. It won't make a blip.
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As someone that is still here over a decade later based on 2 seasons of fantastic AHL hockey, I vehemently disagree. The amount of future nhl'ers we saw come through the QC was amazing. Even Bobby Ryan spent time in Iowa and we got to see him a couple times when he was first getting established. I disagree that you see young guys playing their own game. What I think you see is young guys getting opportunities to grow their ame in roles they wouldn't be able to play in the nhl. You see guys on the PP and PK getting to learn and round out their game. You do often see prospects get more leash from coaches as they are trying to develop them. But overall its a high quality of hockey IMO. I have never seen major junior to know what sot of alternative that is to minor hockey, but having been to a couple hundred minor league games from AHL, ECHL, CHL, IHL, IHL2, etc, I have very fond memories of AHL hockey.