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Originally Posted by ComixZone
and Scorp has watched him more than any of us.
The Flames screwed this up. I don't even think you can argue it now. It's just another player, and painfully another 1st, that got mis-utilized and in this case the organization lost him for nothing.
This is why the team has no success - stuff like this piles up across the different aspects of team building/management.
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If the Flames screwed anything up, it was not keeping him over Mackey despite his play (he certainly hadn’t earned being kept). They gave him time, they gave him a lot of opportunity, he simply wasn’t good and was looking worse and worse as time went on. Andersson and Kylington were lower picks that did so much more with their opportunity, so you can’t even say this is some Flames issue.
As much as it sucks that it didn’t work, at some point you have to realize that the Flames aren’t special went it comes to prospects catching on with other teams. It’s life. It’s too bad. But it is what it is.
At this point, repeatedly using this as a reason to rant about the Flames is no better than the people trying to knock any praise of him. It doesn’t accomplish anything and it’s boring. If I was upset about this I would ask myself whether I’m looking at this situation fairly, or whether I’m looking for reasons to be upset.