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Originally Posted by strombad
Unless you're Pittsburgh, you always need Schenn or Couturier in your organization. They're both great 2nd line options, or 3rd on a deep squad, and Schenn can play wing. Plus if you're focused on just getting this part or that part, you're making it more difficult on yourself in the long run. If we acquire Schenn, and we then have (down the line) Backlund, Monahan, Janko, Reinhart, etc, then you can take one of those guys, either whom you feel will garner you the greatest return or who you feel is expendable and move them for a position of need when that opportunity arises. I mean, Stajan is going to be gone soon, we have an influx of average center prospects, and Janko could very well never develop into a great player. That leaves us with Backlund and Monahan as bonafide top six centers. No reason not to add a Schenn-type to the mix.
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Oh so, they're sort of like Stajan, Backlund, Monahan, Horak, Street, Knight, and possibly Colborne and Jankowski.
Unless we are getting a true, blue-chip, bonafide #1 star centre in the making, we don't need any more "decent 3rd liners that can possibly play as second liners one day". Sorry to say, those two Flyers players don't fall in that category.
I would much rather have "decent second pairing defencemen that can maybe one day play on the top pairing" kind of guys going forward.