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Originally Posted by Super-Rye
Iginla and Zetterberg were both inconsistent last year and by both of their standards had very sub-par years. Zetterberg is definitely the better all around player at this point in his career but as far as finishing goes Iginla is the guy.
Iginla, Tanguay, Cammalleri, Glencorss, Hudler, Beartschi, Cervenka, Stempniak and probably Backlund.
Datsyuk, Zetterberg, Bertuzzi, Filppula, Cleary, Franzen, Helm, Miller, Adelkader/Holmstrom(is he coming back? I have no idea)
While Calgary doesn't have a Datsyuk, at this point in time I would say Calgary has more top 9 depth than Detroit. Hudler is just as sheilded in Calgary as he was in Detroit. The biggest question is will the team as a whole buy into Hartleys plan.
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I agree that we atleast have comparable top 9 depth to Detroit if not a chance to have a slight edge this year.
By position of the top 9:
Line 1 LW - Tanguay vs. Filppula - Tanguay has the slight edge IMO
Line 1 C - Cammalleri vs. Datsyuk - Cammy is a good player but is worse at centre and he's going up against Datsyuk so moving on
Line 1 RW - Iginla vs. Franzen - Again moving on
Line 2 LW - Glencross vs. Cleary - Very similar players i'd give Glencross the edge because he's 5 years younger
Line 2 C - Cervenka vs. Zetterberg - lol
Line 2 RW - Hudler vs. Samuelsson - I think I'm giving the edge to Hudler, but it's close
Line 3 LW - Baertschi vs. Brunner (over Miller) - Two Swiss players that are starting their first full years, could go either way.
Line 3 C - Backlund vs. Helm - Helm gets the edge here by a fair margin
Line 3 RW - Bertuzzi vs. Stempniak - Bert is getting older but he is the better player by a mile overall, edge goes to him but Stempniak could be better.
So in summary Flames have the edge in 4, Wings have the edge in 4 and Baertschi and Brunner are the toss ups.