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Originally Posted by Snuffleupagus
I doubt there's another team in the league that would call up the AHL's leading scorer because of the need to score goals and sit him in the press box.
Darryl needs to go back to the farm.
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I doubt there's any team in the league that would call up "the AHL's leading scorer" and insert him directly on the first line. There is plenty of history to support these vaunted AHL scorers being inserted on the lower lines, especially guys that are D+7. Let's not make this seem like the Flames are sitting on Shane Wright here, or any first or second year pro who has high expectations of being a player. This is tiny (not small) 24 year old who is in his 5th pro season. Expectations need to be tempered here. The Flames know what they have in this player and are handling him the same way every other team in the NHL would.