Who is the Calgary Flames' best player?
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Papa Shango
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It's Giordano, and then Gaudreau.
Giordano is ugly underrated on this board, guy's a pure 1D. Can shutdown the other teams' best players, and will spend most of the night in the opposing zone. Kills penalties, 2nd unit PP, skates well, great leader and is a fitness freak.
Gaudreau is the most skilled player on the team, but even with his weakest professional season yet, the Flames were still a playoff team.
Giordano is ugly underrated on this board, guy's a pure 1D. Can shutdown the other teams' best players, and will spend most of the night in the opposing zone. Kills penalties, 2nd unit PP, skates well, great leader and is a fitness freak.
Gaudreau is the most skilled player on the team, but even with his weakest professional season yet, the Flames were still a playoff team.
Aerchon
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I thought Sam Bennet was the guy? No? Hmmm could of swore I heard some people say he was easily the best of his draft class and a guaranteed superstar. Next Doug Gilmore?
Anyways, sorry for being a jerk but with the draft just taking place I felt I had to remind people of the hype.
I am going to say Hamilton is Calgary's best player moving forward.
Gio is getting old.
Johnny is looking more the one dimensional perimeter player than I thought he would be.
Monahan is a great scorer but little else.
Maybe Backlund.
Anyways, sorry for being a jerk but with the draft just taking place I felt I had to remind people of the hype.
I am going to say Hamilton is Calgary's best player moving forward.
Gio is getting old.
Johnny is looking more the one dimensional perimeter player than I thought he would be.
Monahan is a great scorer but little else.
Maybe Backlund.
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Funny how a 23 year old can score 61 points in 72 games (leading the team in scoring with 10 games missed to injury) while playing half the year with Alex Chiasson, and that "creates doubt" that he could be the team's best player lol.
OvermanKingGainer
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Our best winger is Johnny Gaudreau, but last year it was Matthew Tkachuk.
Our best center is Mikael Backlund.
Our best defenseman is TJ Brodie, but last year it was Mark Giordano.
Overall TJ Brodie is our best player.
Our best player going forward is going to be either Sam Bennett or Mark Jankowski. Once these two put it together they will leave Gaudreau, Backlund, Monahan, Giordano, Hamilton all in the dust.
Our best center is Mikael Backlund.
Our best defenseman is TJ Brodie, but last year it was Mark Giordano.
Overall TJ Brodie is our best player.
Our best player going forward is going to be either Sam Bennett or Mark Jankowski. Once these two put it together they will leave Gaudreau, Backlund, Monahan, Giordano, Hamilton all in the dust.
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Gio.
I think Flames are built like a 'lite' version of the Hawks.
Oil are built like a 'lite' version of the pens.
Should be an interesting BOA the next few years.
I think Flames are built like a 'lite' version of the Hawks.
Oil are built like a 'lite' version of the pens.
Should be an interesting BOA the next few years.
Gaudreau is easily the team's most talented and dangerous offensive player and Giordano is team's best overall player and leader. It's probably pretty close if all things are taken into consideration.
Hank Plank
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This thread makes me realize the Flames don't really have any true standout players. Gio is a good player great during stretches but that's about it. Johnny is probably the best player in the league at keeping the puck on his stick but he's too inconsistent and flat lined during the playoffs.
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Bjornar Moxnes
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Bjornar Moxnes
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I'm not as high on Bennett as most FLames fans are, but the thing with Bennett is he's still a good player, just being used improperly by the Flames. However part of that has to do with the Flames over insanity of LHS forwards. If the Preds drafted Bennett, they probably wouldn't even have traded for Johansen.
Bjornar Moxnes
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If Bennett deserved more ice time this last season he would have played like it. A lot of the time he was pretty much invisible
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Volica
Papa Shango
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It's okay. We all knew that Nilsson and Sam Gagner were going to be stars for the Oil a few years back; at least that's what we were told. Then we waited for RHN to become the next Toews of the league. Then we heard how Nail was going to be the next coming of Ovechkin.
Anyways, sorry for being a jerk but with the draft just taking place I felt I had to remind people of the hype.
Flameshomer
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As far as last season play goes, Brodie is our third best defenseman so I don't know how anyone same could argue that he's our best player. He might rise again with hamonic as his partner but I doubt he'll pass Hamilton or gio.
Tkachuk has a good chance of getting there but he's not quite Gaudreau or Monahan level for me yet. Would like to see him as 1rw to round out that trio as our first line next year, he could be our best player moving forward. At this point I think Bennett tops out around 60 points so he's out of contention.
Gaudreau Monahan and giordano all have definite cases. Backlund is awesome but he's not winning the cup as your #1 c (defense is amazing but the offense will never be enough).
I pick Monahan.
Tkachuk has a good chance of getting there but he's not quite Gaudreau or Monahan level for me yet. Would like to see him as 1rw to round out that trio as our first line next year, he could be our best player moving forward. At this point I think Bennett tops out around 60 points so he's out of contention.
Gaudreau Monahan and giordano all have definite cases. Backlund is awesome but he's not winning the cup as your #1 c (defense is amazing but the offense will never be enough).
I pick Monahan.
Flameshomer
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I feel like whoever explained hockey to you the first time did an awful job explaining how winning hockey games is actually the overall goal, not carefully building up selected contrived advanced stats.
Brodie is inconsistent but when he's on his game he's our best player
Sadly we didn't get to see it much this year
McspOiler
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As an outside observer I think monahan seems more effeective and a bigger problem for the oilers. Then johnny I pick him.
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