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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
But to call it a wasted season is foolish. The team went into the season with the second lowest salary cap in the league, was expected to be bad, but due to a potential Calder performance from a Rookie goalie, and strong play from other youngsters they are battling for a playoff spot.
Lots of good things have come out of this season, and honestly the difference between picking 10th and 21st or 21st and 23rd doesn't make it a "wasted season".
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Picking 10th means that you could pick top 3. Thats what the flames need more than anything- it really doesn't matter at all what Wolf is if the team in front of him can't sustainably put more than 2 goals in a net per game. It doesn't matter that we have a crop of wingers who are playing passably well at various levels. Our star up and coming d man is a great boon, but he would be performing the same way no matter what was happening up in calgary.
We're only ~7 points out of bottom 10 right now. Jiri, you can't tell me that 15 less games of Rasmus on the back end doesn't likely net us 5 less wins. Especially with Bahl out during the same period. Then we're talking about lottery pick this year. Add that to another high pick next year and we'd have a proper rebuild core with a young goalie, stud young puck moving d, and probably two shots at a top line C, in addition to the glut of middling winger talent we have farmed so well.