I think player management with our organization is pretty bad. I'm willing to bet in a few years we will be an undesirable team for quality or up-and-coming type UFAs. Only way you get a chance to succeed is if you're past resume is good.
Flames brass have always chosen experience over potential when all other things are almost equal which I don't like.
Player A with potential - Low experience, makes minimum dollars, statistics aren't outstanding "yet" but has shown lots of promise in minors.
Player B with experience - Lots of NHL games, makes a couple million but nothing cap straining, statistics aren't outstanding.
Almost most of the time player B gets to play.
An example is someone like Rieder over Czarnik.
An example is like Fantenberg, Forbort, Gustafsson, Stone, over Kylington
An example is like Jokipakka over Kulak
I can't remember all the situations and I know other organizations do this too, just wished we were more forward thinking and more risk taking. A potential player always needs to be exceptional where the experience player just has to be status quo.
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