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Calgary Flames Drafting and Development: Your Analysis
conundrumed replied to rickross's topic in Flames Talk
I think I'll start a summer side-business as a counselor for hockey addiction withdrawal lol. You both have good thoughts and bad thoughts, like everyone else. No one's ever 100% right. Sheesh, 50% for that matter. BT has to figure out some cash flow, 1st and foremost, or what you see is what we got. Another year of screaming "shoot" at Stajan. Another year of Bollig shooting right into the goalie at every opportunity. Another year of hearing how Smid is training hard in August to be ready. And Wideman. I'm all for showcasing him top 4, but what happens if he fails? Another yr of loading the bottom 3 with immovable contracts. Still lots of problems. cross was wise to note every team has a bad contract or 2, but we're in the 3-5 range and BT can either find a way to address it or we'll have another year to wait. Then it's time to sign Bennett and Elliot, it ain't going to get easier. -
I think we hear nothing until the JG/SM contracts get done. Lest Wideman and Smid magically disappear. With about $15mil to the cap ceiling we're definitely strapped. I believe there still has to be some fancy footwork if we're going to be able to do anything outside of the big signings, money's all gone.
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Calgary Flames Drafting and Development: Your Analysis
conundrumed replied to rickross's topic in Flames Talk
I think that's a pretty hairy eyeball way of looking at it ccc. The useable pieces you list are 10 minute/gm guys. You can't keep everyone. Consider Poirier, Klimchuk, F. Hamilton, Hathaway are the guys you keep, I'd let all of those guys go. We've had a good run at drafting so guys become disposable, sad but true. D is a bad place though. It is stagnant due to contracts. I believe our guys coming up, Kulak, Wotherspoon, even the older Nakladal, should have spots available. But lo and behold, Kylington, Hickey, Mattson etc are now going to be 2 yrs closer. I don't mind BT's approach in the forward ranks. We needed size on the right, who was it, David Jones? Need vet presence too, it might gum up the forward ranks, fine imho. Can't argue how BT solved G. That alone is gold. Quality netminding at below value to buy a year. Very nice. The D is a quagmire of way too much money that HAS to get balanced. You HAVE to slot Wideman and Smid at almost $9mil. That makes for being very prohibitive for the 23 yo's. $2mil spots for $9mil, owweee... -
Stop posting angry. It's annoying. Carty, find a happy place, lol.
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I think those are fair things to say. For balance though, with the BB hire, I hoped we were moving away from Feaster and Weisbrod to mgmt being more relevant to hockey. I believe we've done that with BT and the guys he's surrounding himself with. I believe the BH firing was more a GM wanting his vision, regardless of the quotable's. BT has a fairly clean canvas now, outside of lingering contracts. I'm dying to see what he paints, as we all are. We've gotta give him the leeway.
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It's like a rainbow of Penguins colours shining out of that post, Eeeeew. Who cares who starts? Goodnite now!!!! While every analyst was crowning their heroes, bwahaha. Oops. West vs it isn't going to matter.
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I can see Toronto taking Filip Gustavsson at 29 or 31.
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MacDonald is eligible for the A/E next year, we also have Nick Schneider on his ELC for 2 more years. Kevin Poulin is RFA. Add Gillies and Ortio, we're down to 2 if no moves are made and we let Poulin walk..
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It doesn't matter if it's AHL or NHL. Any players that started their pro career prior to the 2015/16 season have to be protected. Murray started his pro career in WB-Scranton in 2014/15. For clarity.
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I'd say more maybe 2-3 goalie seats. Just so happens 2 are potentially at the very top.
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Well, let me be blunt then. We did nothing while Kipper was king but draft failures, acquire cheap crappy backups and never find a replacement. He retires, we keep boardinging around, trying to do it on the cheap, trying to buy time, etc. etc. MTL proved just how lousy the roster actually is when they lost Price. LA could lose Quick, they had Bernier, they had Jones as understudies. It's high time, Kipper's gone, he isn't coming back, we HAVE to get serious in net. Best goalie not in the NHL doesn't cut it anymore. It has gotten beyond serious. Now we'll bring in a Finn from the K.... No. Find money, get a goalie. I'm good with giving up a yr for that, next yr. That'll be a total of 3, I'll give you a pass, years. The first 2 he inflicted on himself. Treat the position seriously. Reimer wants to be a starter, here's $3, do it then. Nothing over 2 yr deals, preferably 1, for most, not digging the availables list atm. I've always been good with Vasilevsky, and after the "stick throwing incident", I like him even more. Too funny with the analysts "you can't disrespect your players like that. They'll talk to him I'm sure". Great emotion from Vasilevsky, I'm sure "the talk" went well.
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He completed his ELC with the Isles, they hold no rights to him. The Finns were a trapping team this tourney and turned up some offence when they had to. So while his numbers were great, they were far from from stand alone numbers. Tough to sign a goalie you haven't previously been scouting in a small tourney behind one of the best teams.
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You actually shouldn't consider a bad thing. I think it's better than a goalie too shy to speak his mind. And I'm talking about on the ice. As it relates to hockey, not as a guy, lol.
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I'd let teams pick out on goalies and I'd be thinking I'll take Joseph Raaymakers where he lands, might go as far as 6th rder. SSM sucks, so if you hunt his numbers they aren't great, but he's a stable and smart goalie that will take the helm next yr. Another Chatham product, like T.J. Goalies are hard to call, but he's the guy I'd target. Goalies on decent and excellent teams can be over-rated. I like guys inundated with workload and "get better" at this age. He was solid for a team like SSM as a backup, and will take over next yr. He entered the O as a 16yo goalie, which is unusual. Hard to read goalies. I'm really interested in Parsons from the Knights and how he does this Memorial Cup. He's a dick, let's get that straight, but I like goalies with attitude. He was great in the OHL playoffs but I'm still not quite sold.
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Certainly no saying MM might be our best goalie in 3-4 yrs. He's big and athletic, the rest is just positioning and reactions. He has the tools, I'd like to see him play with more edge though, he seems really mellow. atm, I believe we aren't going to "solve" the issue, but buy a couple more years ala Hiller. I'd actually consider (don't laugh too hard) an Enroth/Nilsson tandem. I have some concerns about choosing between Ward/Reimer/Andersson on bigger, longer term deals. My concern is that the "appearance" of having a better goalie doesn't necessarily translate. I'd rather someone "win" the job, I'm not entirely comfortable with "giving" it to anyone currently available.
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LV would be a west team no?
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As long as it is actually announced, and 1 team or 2. If expansion goes, at 1 team (Las Vegas), I believe they should hold out for 2, the Conferences have to be balanced, don't leave one with an extra team, and don't do 1 now and 1 later.
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I don't disagree cross, but the conversation seemed to be that Hickey, Andersson and Kylington are virtually untouchable. I'm just wondering who is touchable than, and do they have value? It doesn't have to be Vasilevsky, but I wouldn't dispel him either. He's still just 21 so you can't really project his ceiling atm. I don't believe our 6th is in play at all for goaltending, even Schneider garnered a 9th oa, not a 6th. And the market's better for buyer's imo.
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I think maybe we should consider that Vasilevsky wasn't just a 1st rd pick, but a viable first rd pick in most drafts for a goalie. We won't get him for a 2nd. You actually have to give up something for him, but no one seems ready to give up anything we have to improve other positions. So if we aren't ready to part with anyone that has potential, we should be ready to stay status quo.
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Hey keep me out of your quarrel! But I was posting my anti-D rants at the start of the year. It was BBBBBad. If I saw it, everyone saw it, particularly Hartley and Cloutier. But one thing to remember, we aren't Anaheim, we can't afford to be sluggish out of the gate and win 26 of the next 30. That is roster, and roster is on the GM. If you don't have the horses, that is a GM thing, coaches don't make trades or signings, the coach has what the GM gives him.
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Man that's a bitter memory. Watched camp and all of the home preseason. The D looked horrendous the whole time. BH says we lost in Game 1, I'd say before game 1. What really bothered me was I thought Nakladal looked pretty darn good. But got hung with tons of minuses due to being paired with Gio and Hamilton. Wideman and Russell looked pathetic. Wideman slow as molasses and Russell forcing every pass into a crowd. Hard to say but maybe the goaltending could have gotten off to a better footing if the D hadn't been a complete travesty. Come see come saw. I believe Hartley should have completely collapsed his system into EVERYONE D first, forget the long bombs. He must have saw it coming into the season but chose to ride it out. imo.
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There is nothing wrong with difference of opinion. Bennett is our 3C for now, because we really don't have the parts to settle into his style. I expect most aren't on my wavelength on Fiddler and Chimera. Not a big deal. But I have to ask, do you not think a young roster needs that? The 4 remaining teams right now rely on vet presence. We need at least some imho.
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I pretty much agree with you, but we're so jammed up to the cap pdq, if we can't shed some salaries we'll stagnate for another year. I believe that's a real possibility. I think Shinkaruk had a decent audition, but I think he still needs more 3rd and 4th duty to ramp his D game up and see if he can find a consistent and effective style. I'd like nothing more than Ferland really working his coordination this summer because he's close imo, he shouldn't have to be a goon but I believe that's what was asked of him. Another thing we don't do is retaliate, like, at all, and if you don't push back, teams take advantage. I'd liken Pribyl to Nakladl, in that you really have to let him adjust in the A, plus he'll be coming off surgery so I don't think there's a lot of realistic hope there. A lot of this is why I scour the lower FA's for experienced grit. I'm not looking for an answer, just short-term transitions to look at style of play and show the young guys what hard work looks like. I think of guys like Chimera and Fiddler that you might buy for a year on the cheap. Chimera will be 40 for god's sake, but he still has forechecking wheels, still potting 20, so it's not like I'm not thinking it through. Fiddler is 36 I believe, basically a journeyman career, but he'll do 50% at the dot and give you a lot of stability instead of Stajan. These aren't solutions, but I believe our forwards need this kind of leadership on the 3-4 lines. I think those kind of adds strengthen your locker room, scarred up old vets that have done it all, outside of Gio if Stajan is gone, they don't have that. "Hey Chims, tell us what it was like playing against Phil Esposito!" lol Fiddler has drawn every C in the league, plays a hard game and could give Bennett a lot of insight. Not solutions, but I think it's a good way to get your locker room of young kids a lot of perspective.
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I wonder if we'll get an answer this year, or just back into holding pattern as Hiller/Ramo was. I guess if expansion is a go, might give us more clarity. Supposed to be announced by June.
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I agree completely. The hardest thing is to get those gritty players that have enough skill to compete. I honestly see next to none of that in our ranks. I believe "size" is kind of overrated because there are lots of avg sized guys in the league that play that way. Heck, you could also look at Gallagher and Marchand as undersized and play a hard game. I see Jooris first coming in with it, and Hathaway too, but we need that in a higher skill level. One thing I think we really lack is wingers that really go hard to the tough areas and know what to do when they get there.
