MM917
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This stuff here makes it seem like you do no evaluative work yourself. You appeal to authority to back up your points but the authority in the NHL routinely make idiotic moves that have no logic behind them.
I am doing the homework to point out that guys in his situation almost never work out outside of one player. That isn't an appeal to authority it is a fact, especially in the context of where this start based on a comment that someone should avoid signing with the Flames based on the Phillips situation. Well if that is the case then they should also look at every other team that didn't select when he was free over the summer.
Kylington being a legitimate top 4 defensemen that's elite in transition isn't a homerun? Ruzicka leading the team in even strength points isn't a home run? Phillips has no home run potential? And what, because the league that routinely fails to utilize talent until it's too late hasn't decided to utilize them?
First Kylington isn't elite at anything Flames fans need to stop overrating our players, you can like a guy without him being elite when he isn't close to it. He is also a weak top 4 defenseman. If he is in our top 4 we are likely struggling to compete for anything.
No leading the team in even strength scoring a few games into the season isn't a homerun, we have seen countless players in the league have hot starts and not be able to maintain it. There is nothing in Ruzicka's past to say he is this kind of player but maybe he magically improved all of sudden over one summer.
Take one solid look around the league. A current top pairing d-man in Gustav Forsling was on the waiver wire prior to becoming who he is today. Valeri Nichushkin was barely wanted leaguewide before breaking out, teams couldn't identify Stephenson as a high potential player other than the guy who drafted him. Meanwhile players like Chiarot, Jones, Skinner, Johansen, etc. get overpaid, but we're supposed to sit here and think that the NHL brain trust of GM's is infallible? Especially when it comes to making the small, periphary improvements when they can't even handle major decisions with any effectiveness? Even up north, Puljujarvi, who fits the mold of the next Nichushkin is getting run out of town in what will obviously be a bad move in hindsight.
Forsling as a top pairing defenseman is terrible, Nischuskin had shown talent his whole career which is why he was drafted in the top 10, that is not comparable to our guys at all who never showed that level of talent.
Even using Ruzicka's 28 games last year against him is silly when he produced better than other 3C options, and did so by being the one competent member of the 4th line before getting moved up, and goofily replaced by Jarnkrok. Funniest of all its all from the organization that needed Snow to come in to veto their deep trade talks on Ristolainen. To think any GM in the league is perfect, and their evaluation of Phillips or Kylington means anything, is silly.
I am not using it against him just pointing out it wasn't impressive.
Nobody think all GMs are perfect but they are a hell of a lot better than biased fan boys on a website looking for simple solutions to fix the reality that their favorite team isn't good enough. I get the hope as every fanbase wants to think there is some hidden gem ready to save them but it rarely if ever happens.