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This was absolutely an issue under Sutter but IMO it left when he did. Starting with Feaster I think the Flames have been very good at giving young players a shot. Hasn't always been perfect. Feaster was probably too quick to give chances (see Baertschi) and sure there was some PTOs that the Flames would probably want back (see Grossman) but I do think the Flames have done a good job for a while of dangling the carrot and specifically they've shown they'll clear space for kids that earn it. This is iMO the piece that many miss when Sutter comes up. I believe the primary driver behind his firing was not the results or play on the ice, it was the organization saw the potential damage his philosophy was having across the org. From players/org members being unhappy, to young players feeling they weren't going to get a shot or wanting out. They pulled the trigger because they saw those risks were not worth it not because they thought they were going to win more games without him this year. I think a good culture has been built here in terms of how you make a team and how you help the team win, he was unravelling that.

I had heard he had stayed in Calgary this time so not totally shocked to see this. I had written him off at the start of the year but the word he was still in Calgary was nice to hear. I just hope he gets himself back on track. Really happy to have Solo up though. That guy deserves a run of games and I think he could make us forget Z pretty quick. He won't have the big hits but he can play a sound D game.

I don’t get the Chariott comparison either. He was a top 4 guy and was billed as someone who could matchup up against top players. Wasn’t accurate but it was the reason he got so much. Z needs to be sheltered to be good so he was never going to approach Chariott level returns. I understand the desire to build some space but I just would have preferred they waited to get a 2nd and a pick that isn’t a few years away. Nothing to get upset about it’s just a soft return. what might me the most excited about this deal is if they call up Solvoyov to play full time now.

I agree. It was smart not to retain here. Better to hold that card for the other assets that can garner more of a turn. I don’t love the deal because I think they should have waited and I think they get more closer to the deadline or get picks not so get down the road. So I don’t like the deal from that perspective. Feels rushed.

He's practicing. I would suspect Osterle is being brought up as a precaution though. Wranglers are about to head out on a road trip for the weekend.

This is not one of them. NHL clubs have no grounds to terminate a contract based on performance. The only way for this to be an option is the Hawks have to feel that he violated his contract terms is some way shape or form. rumors' pretty silly and i'm sure people are having their fun but I think it's stupid personally. Now Bedard is going to have to address this for likely many weeks/months and why should he? Social media totally sucks.

Short term, maybe but think i'd rather keep Duehr around given he's under contract next year too. They have time to make that decision though because I think Pelletier is probably a month or more away and that's getting closer to the TDL there too. If they feel they can waive him and he'd clear then NP. I'm not sure he would though.

I certainly didn't expect the type of production you saw last year from Duehr but I at least thought they have found some energy, speed and fore checking for their bottom 6. Been really surprised to see him go away from that, but he's got to get back to it if he wants to stay. Not sure they'd waive him at this point though.

Flames are currently using LTIR and once you are using LTIR you no longer accrue cap space. Sending down DeSimone doesn't change their need for LTIR.

And I would not disagree. Could have gone in many other threads and been presented much better, which was the point of my post. Creating a new thread to dump on a player that could have been just been added elsewhere isn't worth it IMO. Almost half of the players on your list are not worth what they are being paid.

Absolutely hilarious to me that you highlight a player below someone who is currently not playing the game and then title the thread "which player does not belong" Pretty hard to take anything seriously when that is the case.

Depends. In the NFL it's booth review so there are no needs for the Refs to do anything. Goal goes in, team reviews immediately so good chance that while the whole celebration goes on they can get an answer. Probably need to expand the war room though. It all depends on what the standard is. Personally if a play is offside and doesn't' relate in an immediate goal I don't think that should be overturned. For me the point of replay is to remove the egregious situations that led to goals. Someone being offside and a goal being scored 30 seconds to a min later to me is not egregious, it's just a missed call. Forsberg throwing the puck to the front of the net is an egregious situation that should be caught. So change the standard, not to reviewing the letter of law (ie offside) to if a goal is scored was the goal scored legally. Remove the rest.

I don't disagree. Why i think replay has turned into actually more of a problem then a benefit. Have to keep creating stupid rules. I'm just saying under the rules, it was a bad challenge. But I agree it was dumb that you have to challenge for a specific reason. When it comes to a goal all that should be necessary is was this goal scored legally. That's why I don't actually like replay. It's not about getting the calls/game right anymore, it's about following the letter of law, and because it keeps exposing little flaws in the law/rules they keep creating more to try and fix replay. Dumb situation IMO. NHL should just adopt the NFL standard and review all goals and then get rid of the coaches challenge.

the challenge was for a missed stoppage. Problem there is as soon as Weegar touched it it’s not longer a missed stoppage. it was a bad challenge. Someone either wasn’t clear on the rules or didn’t pay attention to the video not a big deal for me as they don’t really deserve this game anyway

I think that is clearly a missed call but the challenge wasn’t going to overturn it. Can’t challenge a missed penalty call. That’s a bad challenge from the flames coaching staff I think video replay has caused as many issues as it’s helped.

It doesn't sound like this is what is occurring but in theory I agree that a young player sitting for a game or two is not an issue, just so long as the communication from coach to player is clear. Shouldn't be used as punishment but as a teaching tool. Flames sat Rasmus when he was first breaking into the league and he spoke about how important it was to see the game from above once he understood the speed, expectations of the NHL game.

In fairness to the org I think they would have tried Pospisil much earlier if he could stay healthy. He's been on the cusp for a while but he's been hurt a lot. Staying healthy has been the biggest thing for him thus far.

I’m not sure I’ll ever understand what Vladar has done for the flames that made them buy into him so much. I’ve never seen it. Wolf should be up here.

Easily their best game of the season. Canucks were likely tired for sure but that 2nd period was something else from the Flames. A lot of speed on their pucks/passes in the o zone. They had the Canucks standing for most of the night. Impressive stuff

Really encouraing stuff for Kerins. had the profile of an NHLer coming out of Junior IMO

This is exactly how I see it. There is just no logical hockey reason for me to have your skate blade up that high in that situation. Off balance etc doesn't explain it. Malarchuk was a fluke accident, Zednik a fluke accdient, this one feels very different to me. Is it manslaughter, I have no idea but I 100% support this guy receiving charges because he should for sure answer for the death of a human due to completely careless and unnecessary actions.

Pace. I think when you see Huberdeau's season you see a lot of goals/chances off the rush. Problem here is the Flames are one of the worst rush teams in the NHL.

He looks like he has one foot out of the door to me. Honestly I haven't liked his game all season. Feel he is a step behind of what he was the last few seasons for the Flames.