[News] Flames recall Hunt

[SoulOfTheFlame]

Just the kind of player favs buy tickets to watch. Hunt is the new Michael Stone. Except Stone sometimes scored.

[FanIn80]

Originally Posted by Bingo

Why do we have to be so lazy about this stuff?

Two rookie D in the top six.
Another started the year at 19
A 19 year old forward made the team out of camp.
20 year old forward landed a job on the shut down line.
7-8 rookies with games this year.

To say Huska isn't working youth into the lineup is just blindly incorrect.

This needs to stop.

- The 19 year old D "made the team" because he couldn't be sent to the AHL and if he went to the OHL, he would have been unable to return for the duration of their season. He started the season in the press box, and has probably spent more time up there than he has on the ice for us so far.
- The 19 year old F "made the team" because Huberdeau was hurt. The 19 year old played in exactly the number of games required to fill the hole until Huberdeau was back, and then he was immediately sent down to the farm. There was no movement done to make room for him in the lineup, either coming out of camp or when Huberdeau came back. He literally filled an injured spot for a handful of games and hasn't been heard from again since.

The starting lineup of the Calgary Flames this season, for all intents and purposes, was the same one that played last season. No rookies made this team (out of camp) with the intention of keeping them and playing them as if they were part of the main lineup.

[Flamesfan05]

It would be nice to see some other young players

I guess they have none worth playing

Maybe Hunt can help get that playoff spot

[PepsiFree]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

This needs to stop.

- The 19 year old D "made the team" because he couldn't be sent to the AHL and if he went to the OHL, he would have been unable to return for the duration of their season. He started the season in the press box, and has probably spent more time up there than he has on the ice for us so far.
- The 19 year old F "made the team" because Huberdeau was hurt. The 19 year old played in exactly the number of games required to fill the hole until Huberdeau was back, and then he was immediately sent down to the farm. There was no movement done to make room for him in the lineup, either coming out of camp or when Huberdeau came back. He literally filled an injured spot for a handful of games and hasn't been heard from again since.

The starting lineup of the Calgary Flames this season, for all intents and purposes, was the same one that played last season. No rookies made this team (out of camp) with the intention of keeping them and playing them as if they were part of the main lineup.

Actually, this is what needs to stop.

There’s really no good reason for people to look to excuse every positive thing as something the Flames were forced into and frame every negative thing as intentional/malicious. Nobody actually likes it, and you can’t possibly find any value in it, can you? Miserable!

Parekh and Gridin made the team out of training camp. You can’t take that away from them or dismiss them, regardless of how much you want to. Anyone could have filled in for Huberdeau, and Parekh didn’t just have to make the pros, he had to make the NHL to deserve sticking around. But it was 19 year old Gridin because of his play, and Parekh showed (and has continued to show) he can play in the NHL.

We also shouldn’t act like these situations aren’t extremely common across the league and pretend that every team trades a veteran and rolls out the red carpet for the rookie who made the team for game 1 of the regular season lol.

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by FanIn80

This needs to stop.

- The 19 year old D "made the team" because he couldn't be sent to the AHL and if he went to the OHL, he would have been unable to return for the duration of their season. He started the season in the press box, and has probably spent more time up there than he has on the ice for us so far.
- The 19 year old F "made the team" because Huberdeau was hurt. The 19 year old played in exactly the number of games required to fill the hole until Huberdeau was back, and then he was immediately sent down to the farm. There was no movement done to make room for him in the lineup, either coming out of camp or when Huberdeau came back. He literally filled an injured spot for a handful of games and hasn't been heard from again since.

The starting lineup of the Calgary Flames this season, for all intents and purposes, was the same one that played last season. No rookies made this team (out of camp) with the intention of keeping them and playing them as if they were part of the main lineup.

Halfway through the season and Kuznetsov has become an everyday player. And Brzuz is getting some looks too although feels like he is about to be sent down. IMO you have to be happy with how they have introduced young players on the back end and in net.

It has been disappointing with the forwards frankly but as Jiri said earlier, there just really aren’t any strong prospects there that are near NHL ready so you can’t be too upset. Still with the club nearly dead last in the league now, it would be nice to see a steady diet of Stromgren, Kerins, Morton the rest of the year. There’s no good reason not to really. Gridin should get some more time too.