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Originally Posted by Jiri Hrdina
Ok so this is just someone carting around the 30 years of baggage, not actual evidence.
You provide examples of where the Flames have developed skilled players but they don't count because reasons.
You ignore other examples such as Rasmus Andersson, Andrew Mangiapane.
Though I'm not sure how relevant it is to look back, unless you think management has had the same approach across the decades. Maybe that's part of your premise.
Apart from Sam, who are the other skilled prospects you think the Flames mishandled?
Beyond that it just seems like you don't have much faith in the organization, and you apply that lack of faith across all dimensions of it. Which is fair. They've lost your trust. That's on them.
But that still doesn't equate to a lot of evidence that supports what are you saying.
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As soon as someone starts treating Gaudreau like a footnote they can just dismiss for the sake of their argument you know they’ve completely lost the plot.
You can argue they’ve over-prioritized tough, western Canadian type players over the past 25 years. Lots of evidence of that. But that’s clearly shifted. And unless you want to spit on his legacy and pretend he doesn’t exist, you can’t dismiss Gaudreau of a shining example that the Flames can and have found skill outside the top 10, and done an incredible job nurturing it.