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Originally Posted by Kasi
Well if it’s not drafting enough that is also their problem to fix since they keep trading draft picks away for marginal players. My point is good teams that win tend to win with homegrown talent. In the end that is satisfied by having players you draft in the league. I and many think the team has an issue giving opportunities to young talent. You’ve gone and said here they just don’t draft well. Bingo said in another thread they don’t draft enough because they lack picks. All of these could be sources of the problem which is not enough players in the big league club. I think they should work on likely fixing all of those. I would hope any big sports team is always looking to improve their pipeline and that is rarely a single point of failure.
How about they stop trading draft picks for filler players, work on better scouting to identify nhl calibre players, work on improving development to enable the players to succeed and enable some sort of system that gives young players a chance to make the big league team instead of being told like Zary that on merit they deserved to be there but were sent down because of contract reasons. (Aka signing too many marginal crap players)
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So you think what most people say here rings hollow and aren’t as important as “the experts” but you think the Flames should just go about attempting to fix problems a few different people on CP listed as a potential problem?
There’s little evidence they need to scout junior better considering the players taken around Pelletier and Zary haven’t exactly lit the world on fire and players like Gaudreau, Andersson, Kylington, Mangiapane, and Fox were all good-to-incredible hits for the organization. So we can throw that out.
Development doesn’t appear to be an issue unless you can provide some evidence that the Flames have graduated less players than the average team, including some of the homegrown players that have recently departed.
I think you were probably closest with the assumption that every team is looking to improve the pipeline, and you’re probably missing the fact that it includes the Flames. There’s not much evidence that points to your conclusions, so lumping them in with better ones and saying “fix everything!” isn’t any better. Unless you can show they an issue giving opportunities to young talent (you can’t) then it doesn’t make much sense as thing to keep repeating. It’s not getting any more true through repetition.
