This is very true. Calgary is a weird team and their management took a mediocre team at best and tried to transform it into a contender by adding major pieces: Howe, Mynio, Parker and Hauser. I have never followed a CHL team as closely, but it seems like a rather forced attempt to build a contender on the fly - in the middle of a season. . The team is so top heavy with the Howe, Kindl and Tuck on line 1 that, if you are not the ice with them as D-man, you are probably not getting points. Their line 2 is just a bunch forecheckers who generate offense primarily through effort and being hard on puck, not by making skill plays and using the points.
Even with Mynio, Howe, Tulk, and Kindl, the PP looks lost without Yakemchuk. Mynio was less than a point a game before Yakemchuk returned from injury and had a big 3 point game last night. Mynio's numbers will surely increase being paired Yakemchuk and Yakemchuk will benefit from having a high-end partner.
A lot of Yakemchuk's issues are self-inflicted or skating related, but he has also been paired with sub-par partners the entire year. Now that has changed.