Welcome to another edition of Monday Roundtable! Today, we’ll be talking about the Calgary Flames forwards and seeing how next season will look.
This is going out a little later than we normally do these, but it’s Victoria Day! Can you blame me? I mean, it is a Canadian holiday (sorry to one of our writers, Dan, who’s American). Today, the writers here at Flame for Thought had a virtual roundtable discussion on everything to do with the Calgary Flames forwards. They’ve been somewhat of a conversation topic all season with all the changes made to the lineup.
First, we had star forwards Johnny Gaudreau and Sean Monahan struggle for a bit to start off their season. And with new hefty contracts for each of them to start the season off, people were questioning if they even deserved that much. Then we have the much appreciated 3M line who were there to save the day when that first line struggled.
We also had Troy Brouwer who came to Calgary and signed quite the contract (avg. salary of $4.5 million, 4-year contract), but was nowhere near what the Calgary Flames needed from him. There were also conversations practically all season about who should be the full-time RW on that top line alongside Johnny and Monny. When finally Micheal Ferland joined that line late in the season and started this momentum. Of course, Sam Bennett continues to be a story with his continuous struggling during the regular season as well.
All in all, the forwards have been a topic of conversation and the Calgary Flames never had solid lines this season. The only for sure thing was the 3M line. They were basically the best and most consistent line for the Flames all season long. So I asked the other writers at Flame for Thought some questions regarding the forwards. Let’s see what they said.