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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
I generally agree though I also thought this was a bottom five team at the start of the year. 
This isn't a bad year to be better than expected. I think this draft is quite poor overall. If they are going to bottom out: 2026 and 2027 are the years! |
Same here. I did not expect the team to have this hard a work ethic, which I absolutely cannot complain about. This draft, even with picking where we are at, are going to be lucky to get a pair of Gridin level prospects, which would have been end of the first rounders last year. I don't mind giving up #16. It feels like the level of player that would have been say last year or next year would be a guy around 24-26 in those drafts. Not ideal, but not earth shattering.
I just don't see how guys like Kadri, Huberdeau, Coleman, and Backlund can keep up when they are hitting the mid 30's range and having only Coronato establish himself as a legit top 6 forward among the young group.
I would be very happy if the Flames kind of intentionally unintentionally tanked the next two years.