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Originally Posted by _Q_
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.
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Street, Knight, Horak, Jankowski, Colborne are not close to 2nd line options and are a stretch as 3rd line guys on bad teams.
Backlund, Stajan are borderline 2nd line guys on bad teams and alright 3rd line options on deep teams.
Monahan it is too early to say yet.
Schenn and Couturier are better options right now than any centres we have and going forward only would be behind Monahan, if that, in terms of future potential.
Getting one of them helps with C depth if Backlubd doesn't take a big step up, Monahan doesn't pan out offensively and none if the other guys surprises.
Having Schenn/Courturier, Monahan and Backlund as the future top 9 centres is a pretty solid C core moving forward. Allows more flexibility with lines and less pressure on maybes likes Horak, Colbirne and Knight to have to turn out to be top 6 guys.