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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Why? Because the Flames's group of forwards is much more skilled and deeper than anything Peters had to work with in Carolina. Your point about Jankowski and Bennett is valid, but I think Ryan will not get the same op[portunities in Calgary simply by virtue of who else is ahead of him on the depth chart.
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If you agree about Jankowski and Bennett, who else is ahead of him on the depth chart? We're essentially talking about whether Ryan is on the fourth line or not to start.
And Victor Rask was a former 45+ point player with Jeff Skinner and yet Peters had no problem playing Skinner with Ryan.
Also, Aho, Teravainen, Williams, Skinner, Staal, Lindholm, (Rask). There was certainly enough talent up front to keep Ryan outside of the top 6 on paper with the Hurricanes. They lacked top end talent, like Gaudreau, but depth wise they certainly had the 2018 Flames beat. With the addition of Neal, that may not be the case, but the team that scored 215 goals last year, of which the majority was scored by the heavy hitters. Forward depth was up there for the worst in the league, they got a lot to prove this year before we can talk about how deep they are.