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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
What's the rush?
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This team has lost 8 of 11 games. It's not about Nakladal specifically, but it's about time they start doing the things expected of a rebuilding team that sits tied for last place
over halfway into the season should do, and that's evaluate players for a long term fit. When you're winning, not doing so gets justifyable excused. But they're not winning. So you're doing something short-sighted and it's not even producing results.
To me, Nakladal is a small scribble on that docket, but Sam Bennett continuing to play left wing with not one, but
a pair of guys who seemingly couldn`t beat an NHL goalie with their soft wristers if that Goalie`s name was Jonas Hiller and the the crossbar was a few inches higher is the one that really grinds my gears. I also think we need to see Monahan produce away from Gaudreau.
Can they wait until the trade deadline, which is a pretty arbitrary point in time? Sure. They can even wait until game 80 if they like. But the bigger the sample, the better. And pre-trade deadline games are likely to be more meaningful a sample to evaluate and higher-intensity than the stuff after, when the best teams are just trying to avoid injuries before the playoffs and the worst teams have sold better veterans off.
