It's not a horrible move but i'm not a huge of him taking ice/blocking another young player. 1 year extension is ok so he can be a deadline rental next year I guess, price is almost irrelevant with how much cap room the flames have/will have.
Between granlund, knight, reinhart, backlund, monahan and colborne there are a ton of centres in the organization who should be getting a chance to at least test the waters at the nhl level and if they draft sam reinhart it will be an even worse clustercluss. Monahan and Backlund are the two best flames forwards this year, so this basically blocks the rest of them un from anything except shotgun between mcgrattan and westgarth.
Unless backlund gets moved kind of hard to understand, I get the mentoring bit but centre is one of the few positions we have a couple guys in their mid 20s already.
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