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Originally Posted by Bleeding Red
Leads me to ask - which is preferable from the farm team - developing good players for the NHL or Having a winning/championship minor team? (would like both, I know, but that seems a bit unlikely.) Do the Flames owe Stockton fans anything?
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Because the farm team is owned by the Flames, number 1 priority is developing good players.
Keeping the fans in Stockton happy is secondary and really only of some concern to them because it helps to offset the cost of running a team and keeps business partners happy (e.g. the city that owns the arena).
That being said the Flames did get some AAAA players in Stockton like Taormina, Quine, Graovac, and Robinson who have a combined guaranteed AHL salary of $1.55 million.
They are investing in the team. The results just haven't been there.