I sometimes think our perspectives have been spoiled with Monahan and Gaudreau, when looking at the career trajectories of Ferland and Bennett.
I think the coaching staff is doing a good job of carefully deploying Bennett at times when he can succeed while giving him a taste of the tough minutes here and there. He plays such a unique game that I think his development path may be a bit rockier than Monahan despite potentially having a higher ceiling. Just because he has a few great shifts, doesn't mean he should be playing 23 mins a night. The constant deployment on the wing does kind of make me wonder though.
As for Ferland, he teases you with such potential, but I think he always was going to be a longer term guy. His playoff performance was an anomaly. He was barely an NHLer last year, this year he is a full time NHLer. I would hope and expect that he takes a big step next year to being the player we all hope he can be.
I think the organization has done a fantastic job of developing young players. Though I suppose it's pretty easy to look good compared to the land of no goodness.
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I sometimes think our perspectives have been spoiled with Monahan and Gaudreau, when looking at the career trajectories of Ferland and Bennett.
I think the coaching staff is doing a good job of carefully deploying Bennett at times when he can succeed while giving him a taste of the tough minutes here and there. He plays such a unique game that I think his development path may be a bit rockier than Monahan despite potentially having a higher ceiling. Just because he has a few great shifts, doesn't mean he should be playing 23 mins a night. The constant deployment on the wing does kind of make me wonder though.
As for Ferland, he teases you with such potential, but I think he always was going to be a longer term guy. His playoff performance was an anomaly. He was barely an NHLer last year, this year he is a full time NHLer. I would hope and expect that he takes a big step next year to being the player we all hope he can be.
I think the organization has done a fantastic job of developing young players. Though I suppose it's pretty easy to look good compared to the land of no goodness.
I think prioritizing Granlund at Centre ahead of Bennett is mismanagement of the highest drafted player in Flames history.
I'm all for protecting Bennett with sheltered minutes, just like how Monahan was handled. Easy zone starts, easy match ups...but deploying him on wing, especially with Granlund at centre? It makes no sense at all. If Granlund was good at playing centre at the NHL level, maybe I could see it - but he's not. He gets buried shift after shift by the competition.
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^^^^^^^I would like somebody in the media to ask that question, because I don't understand it either. But at this point, there isn't really a track record of mismanaging young players, so I'm kind of giving them the benefit of the doubt. Maybe they see things in his game that throwing him to the wolves would do more harm than good. He is a much more instinctual than cerebral player, maybe that has something to do with it.
I sometimes wish Bennett was a superstar winger so he could play on the top line. I do agree though that Bennett should definitely be starting at centre over granny. And I'm a big fan of granlund as well, if anyone should be a centre turned winger, it's Markus. He has an all star level shot, I would challenge him to play a selfish shoot first game like mason Raymond does..
Anyway I've felt for a while now that Hartley it a good coach, even a great one, but he isn't the right coach for this group of players. I think we need a new approach, different style, different lense of evaluating talent and where they should play. Also why the hell do we have so many god forsaken useless players on this team that the coach would have to be a wizard to utilise.
I've been keeping myself off the forum because I know my views aren't very popular and it's easy to misunderstand what I'm saying. I just think there was a fork in the road last season, continue rebuilding with low expectations and continue building pieces etc. Or make the playoffs and be forced to keep EVERYONE, even the David joneses, widemans and Hudlers.. Just because ... We made the playoffs and beat Vancouver last year, it will happen again next year or we will die trying.
To me someone should slap brad treliving for not seeing that last year was a fluke, and not having the nuts to say ok we made the playoffs last year, with the smallest, youngest, weakest, team ever assembled. I don't think it will happen again so I'm trading this guy this guy and this guy, because they aren't needed here and won't get us where we need to be.
I loved the playoffs last season. It was the best time I've had in my sports life since the cup run over a decade ago. I feel like it made some obvious decisions way way too hard to make. Obviously I don't think brad should have blown up the team at the deadline, but it makes you wonder what core pieces we could have picked up for Hudler and wideman during their CAREER years, at peak value.
Makes me sick that our awesome core is stuck playing with a bunch of useless, fully developed bums earning 2x what they should. I hope Burke goes crazy and fires everyone and trades Wideman, Harvey the hound and a 1st for Crosby.
When I see players like stajan, Wideman, Jones, Raymond, Russell, bollig, etc making stupid plays you don't even see in beer league it makes me want to dress up in my finest garments, show up at Cowboys night club and spit in all of their faces.
/overreaction.
And yes, I know they would throw me all the way to Saskatoon
Great work as usual... next time pls don't hide it in 'spoiler' tags - just make the image smaller (e.g 800x600) and post it directly. I think it has become a ritual in GDT threads !
I would like to see Bennett get some ice time with #13. Throw Ferland up on the line as well after his last few outings. By doing so, hopefully 24 and 23 would get motivated to get their money-maker back on their line and show a little more intensity. They haven't been bad, but They're definetley riding In Johnny's wake. Don't know if Hudler's fighting an injury, but something is missing especially in a contract year.
I'd like to see Sean Monotone score a goal or two tonight as well. I really think Hudler has been holding him down. It was apparent in the LA and ANA games they were doubling up coverage on Monahan, because Hudler was useless so no threat.
My favourite part of this game was when Stajan scored, because back then he never scored.
LOL that is the most homer commentating i have ever heard. Laziest calls on the Flames goals and then when the Avs score to make it 5-1 he acts like they just took the lead in a stanley cup final
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