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Originally Posted by Vinny01
No kidding. Complete disregard for any player on the team who is not in the veteran 6? Wolf, Parekh, Coronato, or any of the other several intriguing prospects hit then this team would easily be better in 2-3 years.
Where I somewhat agree with the take is I am not sure the current pieces are going to be enough to get this team further ahead than they are now. The flames are a treadmill team that doesn’t get too high or too low that often in the standings. Since the lockout they won the division 3x and picked in the top 10 4x. The rest of the time they were on one side of the bubble. People want to get off that treadmill and hopefully get to the top eventually but thinking/wanting the team to be really bad for 4-5 years to collect what they hope are the star players that will take the team to the promised land in another 10 or so years
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This is a well thought out take.
Kadri is playing at top line level.
Trouble was the gap between him and the next guy. I had hoped Frost would come in and look more like a top six rather than bottom six center. Alas that didnt happen or we probably have a hundred points and make the playoffs.
Also injury was an issue. Sharkbait coming off one and zary down twice. Wasnt one of the older players, So they got more ice.
Two things factored the most to my mind. Scoring obviously however it seems more like a one off year and our defence isn’t particularly mobile nor are they very scorey at their best. The system huska employs is a little to restrictive adding to the snakebitten woes.
Sharky should be better.
Zary hopefully healthy.
Coronato should continue to round out his game could hit 30 goals.
Frost and farabee i expect a lot better from. Both entering prime years and i am convinced Conny picking them up maybe played with their heads a bit couldn’t buy a goal between them.
I think klapka is going to be a beast, middle six winger.
Lots of reasons to be optimistic we just need something that approximates a top line center and another one in the wings for the future. Why i endorse the Rossi idea.
Add another top six center to this team that can get you 20 25 goals, trade andersson, bring up Parekh, get a more mobile middle pair defender this is a playoff team.