[News] Gawdin added to taxi squad

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by keenan87

...Trust management enough? This is a franchise that has lost several players because they never gave them an opportunity and so eventually, those players lost confidence and either signed with another team or never made it to the NHL...

That is quite the claim. Is there evidence to support this assertion? (And I am not talking about decisions made by distantly past regimes for the loss of Martin St Louis, Toni Lydman and the like sort.)

[Bingo]

It's called Dustin Boyd Syndrome.

DBS

[transplant99]

Originally Posted by Bingo

It's called Dustin Boyd Syndrome.

DBS

Huh....and i have a completely different definition of what DB's means.

[D as in David]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

That is quite the claim. Is there evidence to support this assertion? (And I am not talking about decisions made by distantly past regimes for the loss of Martin St Louis, Toni Lydman and the like sort.)

Well, all you have to do is look at the first games of Joe Colborne and Mark Jankowski in a different team's colors.

[Calgary4LIfe]

Players like Gawdin, Ruzicka, etc., have to push themselves on to the team. Blow the doors open. They aren't first round picks with really high ceilings - all the Flames' prospects in the AHL last year all have their warts.


You can't count on them off the gate and pencil them into the roster. They either suddenly just make that definite push in training camp, or they come in as injury relief and get that look in the NHL. I don't think there is anything wrong with that mindset. I don't think that the Flames have missed out on any talent even since Feaster's time where prospects have left to get a chance somewhere else and stuck.


Closest thing to that would be Byron, but it wasn't for a lack of opportunity with losing him (which, yes, was a mistake). I can't think of any prospects that the Flames have lost in the last 6 or 7 years who are of note in any way.

[Jiri Hrdina]

Originally Posted by Textcritic

That is quite the claim. Is there evidence to support this assertion? (And I am not talking about decisions made by distantly past regimes for the loss of Martin St Louis, Toni Lydman and the like sort.)

Not only that but this franchise has graduated many players in recent years across all positions.

[GioforPM]

You could make an argument that Froese, though obviously not a long term prospect at 29, earned the right to play in the NHL as much as Gawdin, and who knows how they each looked in practice. the other thing is - maybe management doesn’t want to throw Gawdin in until at least a 3rd line spot opens up because of where he would best fit in. Monahan broke in as a middle six player and would have been not suited at all on the 4th line.

[Textcritic]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

You could make an argument that Froese, though obviously not a long term prospect at 29, earned the right to play in the NHL as much as Gawdin, and who knows how they each looked in practice. the other thing is - maybe management doesn’t want to throw Gawdin in until at least a 3rd line spot opens up because of where he would best fit in. Monahan broke in as a middle six player and would have been not suited at all on the 4th line.

Maybe they want Gawdin and others to play some AHL games first before throwing them in cold into the heat of a tightly contested NHL playoff race.

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