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Originally Posted by 8sPOT
Same old story here. Flames have never been bad to enough to get consecutive top picks. So we slowly rotate in a rookie that has been cooking in the system for a few years.
The only outliers were Tkachuk and Monahan, but thats almost a decade ago.
It's not necessarily a bad thing, but if another team adds 3 young players that become core pieces they are going to be further ahead of us at some point.
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I have never liked the term "cooking prospects. It reenforces the idea that we are going to keep them down there as long as possible. Lately it seems the Flames are closer to baking. Are the Flames a little too conservative and afraid of change? When you look at Johnny and MT it seems like we waiited a little long for the chips to fall into place before we made moves. Twice I recall Johnny brought up that he hated the long negotiation process after signing his contracts. The longer it went on the more apprehensive the parties involve got until things fell apart. I am not trying to rehash but wonder if the Flames are a bit too conservative and should take some risks. Signing Johnny sooner for more is a good risk. Trading MT sooner for an elite player when he didnotn seem happy here might have been a risk worth taking.