Speculation: Armchair GM Thread 2025-26 Part Deux; Post-Raz Edition

[Mobiandi]

Every year it’s the same tired talking points that put down the centers that come through our system. Not just here but throughout the entire fanbase whether it’s twitter, reddit, or CP. It’s gotten really old and why I hope we don’t touch Bjorck with a 20-foot pole. This fanbase will turn on him immediately if he’s not a faceoff god who plays like Kopitar

 

[Ledge And Dairy]

and in 2024-25 he had 241 faceoffs and not a whole 166... he was literally 2nd worst in teh entire NHL for players who took at least the same # of faceoffs as him. That's why his face-ff dropped off and they basically gave up on him being a center, not everything is because of the most recent season.

was he "better", or did they handpick who he faced more often and use him in situations to make him less useless?

I think you are getting a bit dramatic about the whole Zary thing. We all know Dreger is less accurate than a broken clock so lets pump the breaks on trying to run him out of town.

In his season ending presser he made a comment that was pretty clearly backhanded about his own situation, when talking about Zayne. But frankly I think it was pretty justified. Sure injuries played a part, but he should have absolutely gotten more than 30% shared ice time with at least 1 forward this year. If he's still a Flame come September, we should all cheer for him to succeed.

 

[Sparky93]

Pretty indifferent about Zary, he's a classic tweener. Not really good enough for the top 6 but not ideally suited for bottom 6. It's funny because a lot of the guys from that '21 junior team are in the exact same boat. The injuries seem to have really hurt his game, otherwise there really isnt much of a difference between any of them. They just didn't reach their full potential, possibly over hyped to begin with.

 

[Lunatik]

I think you are getting a bit dramatic about the whole Zary thing. We all know Dreger is less accurate than a broken clock so lets pump the breaks on trying to run him out of town.

In his season ending presser he made a comment that was pretty clearly backhanded about his own situation, when talking about Zayne. But frankly I think it was pretty justified. Sure injuries played a part, but he should have absolutely gotten more than 30% shared ice time with at least 1 forward this year. If he's still a Flame come September, we should all cheer for him to succeed.

This is at least the 3rd different person to say something about Zary. This is also the kind of shit that agents leak, so it's usually more accurate than team "X" interested in "Y" player

and didn't he have close to 25% with Kadri? A guy who played only 3/4 of the season with us