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Originally Posted by Bingo
And for the record ... I would never cheer against a prospect with talent.
Just roll my eyes with the 4 points in 5 games crowd completely missing the fit, and what the player needs to do to stay in the NHL.
As I said above, with his puck skills and IQ he could be an interesting player if he picked up a touch of speed and was better at coverge.
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You're not wrong but IMO this organization needs to do a better job still at keeping some of those spots open in the bottom 6 for young guys to get the chance to develop at the NHL level.
Sometimes you need to play at the NHL level to learn how to be an NHLer...it's like Sutter said about d-men. You need 300 NHL games before you really learn how to be an NHL d-man...and you can't learn that in the AHL.
It's the same for the Flames tweener forwards - at some point you need to give them at least a 10-20 game run at the NHL level just to see what's there and let them learn the NHL game.
Personally I would have just much rather have seen Stromgren, Kerins, Honzek, and Morton get the NHL games that Rooney (70), Kirkland (21), Duehr (16), Bishop (6), and Hunt (5) got last year. Even just half of those games would have been 60 NHL games that could have been used to help develop youngsters that instead were used for guys that were never long term solutions for the organization, but were "safer" bets to play in the bottom 6 last year.