The struggles out the gate for the Wranglers shouldn’t be a huge surprise. There was A LOT of significant turnover from the previous season.
The “core” is more or less intact (Wolf, Pelletier, Phillips, and Zary) but they have lost 5 of their top 7 scorers from last season. (Gawdin, Froese, Philp, Kirkland, and Mackey…for now)
This is more a testament to how deep the flames are, but it’s difficult to sign/replace those fringe NHL/AAAA AHLers when they don’t see a route to the big club, and the flames don’t have the spare NHL contracts kicking around.
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