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Originally Posted by ResAlien
If he's such a beast what happened with getting benched/stapled to the 4th line in the playoffs by Minnesota? I genuinely don’t know but it feels like that was a thing
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Sam was often benched here. Less so in the playoffs but my point is that if these guys didn't have some risks, they wouldn't be available.
Players DO get traded and find a new level with their new team. We obsess over instances where the Flames have been on the bad end of those, but we resist any options to try and do the reverse.
My view is
- Rossi is not a Bill Guerin type player. Though he did draft him I think. But I think he favors bigger players
- Rossi has got a lot of skill
- I think overall he's likely a #2 center not a 1. But the Flames need that too.
The risk is he's only a 50 - 60 point player. There may be some risk if he was being propped up by Kaprizov but that doesn't seem to be totally the case
As with all these things, it comes down to acquisition cost. People just dismissing it outright, when we don't know those costs, are making a premature decision in my view.