09-05-2014, 12:14 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Flames fan in Seattle
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Pick your Flames Booms and Busts for this year
Interested to see what big surprises people think might happen for this year and who might have a terrible bust season..
For booms I'll go with Baertschi surprising us all and playing 3/4 of the season and actually doing something respectable like 20-20..
For busts I would say maybe David Jones or Engelland but those players are kind of expected to be busts, so I'll guess Stajan has a bad campaign and we all really regret the long term signing.
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09-05-2014, 12:16 PM
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#2
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Boca Raton, FL
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Boom: Tyler Wotherspoon
Bust: Curtis Glencross
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09-05-2014, 12:17 PM
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Could Care Less
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Boom - Glencross goes 30g 30a.
Bust - Monahan has a sophomore slump, goes 10g 10a and terrible +/-.
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09-05-2014, 12:21 PM
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#4
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Boom: Paul Byron surprises with a 20 goal, 50 point season.
Bust: Wideman struggles to stay in the top 4 all season.
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09-05-2014, 12:21 PM
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#5
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SW Ontario
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Boom: Johnny Hockey
Bust: Setoguchi...Jones...pick one.
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09-05-2014, 12:23 PM
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#6
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: NC
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Boom: Joe Colborne (HM's: Paul Byron and Johnny Gaudreau, the gnomes)
Bust: Jones (HM: Engelland)
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09-05-2014, 12:25 PM
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#7
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First Line Centre
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Boom: Backlund. He will surprise people offensively this year. I think he will put up 65 points.
Bust: Setoguchi. He will be what he has always been. A one dimensional offensive forward that relies on good line mates and PP time (which he won't get) to put up a marginal 20 points and 20 goals.
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09-05-2014, 12:26 PM
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Owner
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary
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I think it's important to place the caveat of measurement and expectation.
Is Engelland a bust because he's the club's 6th best defenseman? Nope. Glencross and his salary/history should be a 20 goal guy so he can be held to a pretty high expectation, but bottom six forwards and 6th dmen shouldn't face the same scrutiny.
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09-05-2014, 12:26 PM
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Owner
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary
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I think it's important to place the caveat of measurement and expectation.
Is Engelland a bust because he's the club's 6th best defenseman? Nope. Glencross and his salary/history should be a 20 goal guy so he can be held to a pretty high expectation, but bottom six forwards and 6th dmen shouldn't face the same scrutiny.
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09-05-2014, 12:26 PM
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Owner
Join Date: Dec 2001
Location: Calgary
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Ooops ... my picks
Boom: Backlund
Bust: Hiller
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09-05-2014, 12:28 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario
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Boom: Mason Raymond is going to do even better than last year, he'll do the best against the nucks...
Bust: Gio won't be as good as last year...
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09-05-2014, 12:30 PM
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#12
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Franchise Player
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Boom: Calgary Flames
Bust: Edmonton Oilers
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09-05-2014, 12:30 PM
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#13
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First Line Centre
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Boom: Colborne and GlenX
Bust: Hudler
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09-05-2014, 12:32 PM
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#14
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Boom: Hiller
Bust: GlenX
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09-05-2014, 12:33 PM
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Boom: Mason Raymond
Bust: Derek Engelland
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09-05-2014, 12:35 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: SW Ontario
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The bust compared to some fan expectation may be Gaudreau since a decent number of people here are predicting a lot from a rookie.
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09-05-2014, 12:40 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PeteMoss
The bust compared to some fan expectation may be Gaudreau since a decent number of people here are predicting a lot from a rookie.
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Heretic!
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09-05-2014, 12:41 PM
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First Line Centre
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PeteMoss
The bust compared to some fan expectation may be Gaudreau since a decent number of people here are predicting a lot from a rookie.
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At least most fans are being conservative when predicting his point totals to be in the low three digits next year.
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09-05-2014, 12:41 PM
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#19
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Franchise Player
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Boom: Johnny Gaudreau
Bust: David Jones
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09-05-2014, 12:44 PM
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#20
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Salmon with Arms
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Boom: Backlund
Bust: Monahan
Monahan is going to really struggle this year. He'll end up an important piece IMO, but he'll have difficulty repeating last year never mind improving
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