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Originally Posted by djsFlames

People..

Fact is, we were pushovers, even doormats last season, and that in itself was a glaring weakness. No grit, rarely "out muscling" opponents (Especially in the forward ranks). Everybody seemed to be molding their game after the super-soft Tanguay. And our tactics always came down to trying to skate around defenders, and when we played big teams like the Ducks or LA, we got crushed.

With the additions of Jones and Knight on the front end, we're already taking a pretty nice step towards being bigger and harder on the puck. If O'Brien brings some grit in a 3rd pairing role too and manages to piss of the Oil and Canucks, then all the better. So long as he isn't a huge liability out there.

But we're starting to have an over abundance of 3rd line (and projected 3rd line) centers now though. Stajan, Backlund, Knight, Horak, Reinhart. If we're going to bring in our 6th pick to play, or sign a free agent top 2 center, then someone has to be unloaded. It only makes sense. Cammy will hang around a bit longer, but don't be surprised to see Feaster shopping Stajan and Backlund around. I'm a big Backlund fan myself, but the way they talked about him at year's end made him sound expendable. Perhaps one of those expendable "assets" that Feaster was talking about going into the draft.

Need to make room for the Monahans, Barkovs, and on July 5th, the Lecavaliers, Weisses or Filpullas. Someone's coming in. So, question is.. who's getting pushed out?

The Flames having nothing but second and third line centers. ..in over abundance..that is shocking.