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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Historically speaking teams that win usually win with home grown talent not a roster built through free agency and trades.
Last year kind of proves that point but it was out of Treliving hands that they decided to walk and we had to pivot. That also doesn't mean you load up the team with the Rooneys and and Lewis type guys we could have graduated some players.
Right now we have 5 drafted players in the lineup. Minus the expansion teams that has to be lowest.
Sutter the GM did this as well focused on free agency and trades ignored the draft and left is in a mess.
To take the next step we need to graduate some players and in a hurry.
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There is nothing about Connor Zary nor Jacob Pelletier that requires a recall in a hurry. Nothing.
The AHL team is full of drafted first and second year pros learning their craft.
The guys you want graduated are playing for other teams because the Flames bet on their core and moved picks out from 2017 to 2019
2017 No 2nd No 3rd
2018 No 1st No 2nd No 3rd
2019 No 2nd
1st and 2nd round picks in years previous were graduated ... Tkachuk, Andersson, Kylington, Valimaki
Teams that don't draft in the top 5-10 don't have straight to the NHL prospects. Teams that don't draft in the 1st or 2nd round wait even longer.
But there is no need to hurry with guys that are playing their second year of pro hockey coming out of a covid lack of games period. Zary was even hurt to start year one.