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Originally Posted by Poe969
I don't see this as a good thing at all. The guy reminds me of Langkow, and I don't mean that in a good way. Sure, some are going to jump all over me and say how awesome Langkow was and how we would be lucky to have a guy turn into someone like him..... Well you know how everyone has been saying that we haven't had a top line center in 20 years.... it's going to be even longer. O'Reilly is going to be a really really good second line center who's going to be forced into a top line role and probably not do that well with it. With the Av's he was behind Stastny, Duchene and playing with some decent others, he wasn't on the top line because they didn't see him as a top line center. If the Avs thought he was a top line center, theyw ould have traded Stastny and kept O'Reilly....they didn't.
I have such a bad feeling that this is going to turn into the Flames giving up a potential franchise player for a second line forward that's being over hyped.
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Last year O Reilly was either the #1 or #2 center. Duchene played wing mostly. I agree that O Reilly will be a #2 but a very good #2. By the way Stastny is also a #2.