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Originally Posted by Rhett44
Klapka played well but he likely projects as a 3rd to 4th liner. Pospisil I believe is ideally a 3rd liner. Zary and Coronato had solid years, but I still see 2nd liner being the most likely position long term for both.
So yes, we did get some great performances from rookies. But we still do not have any prospects that project as a 1st liner at forward. That is a significant problem with a retool, we have nothing to retool around. We do not have a 1st liner on the roster.
Wolf is incredible and I think one of the top goalies in the league if he keeps it up. But goalies can only do so much. Carey Price was the closest one recently to carrying his team to the cup, but even he couldn't do it. And goalies are extremely volatile as we see with Hellebuyck in the playoffs.
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You keep doing this thing where you project as if you know what our prospect pool will produce 3 to 5 years from now. You also discount the fact that we are still smack dab in the middle of said rebuild in which we still have a good amount of capital to move that requires no rush to move them (Kadri, Coleman, Weegar, etc.) that will only add to the already deep only getting deeper prospect pool. Add to that fact that there has been recent examples of teams trading for significant pieces for their runs Florida being the absolute best example of this. There is literally no reason to keep complaining about our prospect pool, one in which every single player drafted in 24 by the flames took good to significant strides in development. Like come on man, let it go for a minute. It’s funny too because if Parekh and Wolf playing to how they’re projecting that is two HUGE pieces/ingredients needed for a championship contending team and they are light years from their primes and should help you realize the sky really is the limit with this club and how GM CC is currently handling himself gives me full confidence that’s the direction the Flames are taking.