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Originally Posted by Jason14h
100% - but would Huberdeau , Weegar and Backlund not be enough (who actually knows )
And at what point does a player need to transition into that role vs mentee?
I think most teams have good development and culture - it’s the few that don’t that scare people and I think it’s overblown because of the extreme cases of Incompetence.
Part of the Flames biggest issue is we don’t have any home grown 25- 30 year old range players that should be making this transition since our drafting and development (and trading picks) was poor or we traded the players
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Yeah it's hard to know who and how many.
One one hand I think Kadri, Weegar and Andersson are key because they are still top of roster players.
But Backlund and Coleman provide that right way to play angle and Backlund is mentioned often by young players as being a huge influence.
Huberdeau seems to be liked by many but not sure he's as important (complete guess by me) and isn't moveable anyway.
I'd assume they know, and that's why they have done what they've done (not trading everyone), but it could be a wrong assumption and they have more room (shedding more veterans) than the've tolerated.