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Originally Posted by Bingo
Aren't you kind of moving the goal posts?
First no picks in drafts 2018 with games played - lack of picks
Only x number with no games played - entire 2nd half of the draft is just breaking in
Now it's AHL stats to date?
It's these player's first seasons on the cusp. Some get in with opportunity, some don't. Some have crappy teams? Some have teams with injuries? Some have coaches that are less grumpy.
Trust me man ... I've seen this on this site for 24 years. Everyone wants the young guys to make it. When they finally get a look quite often they don't look great and then you see them in Europe or struggling as tweeners for the rest of their careers.
Hoping for all three of them; I've said that numerous time ... kind of wish for a minor injury to get Phillips a shot. But without that injury I don't really see a lot of space.
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Ultimately it all comes back to the Flames being a bad drafting team, in that they don't have picks and they prioritize the wrong types of players on the floor. It's not so much moving the goalposts as it is there being a lot of different goalposts to point at. It's a multi-faceted problem — there's a lot of different things about their philosophy I disagree with.
But Jakob Pelletier's case for promotion is better than pretty much anybody else in the A right now. He's a first-round pick ... we're not talking Dustin Boyd here. Shouldn't need an injury to take both Lucic and Rooney out of the lineup.