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Flames Draft Watcher · 01-29-2014, 12:59 AM

All this talk of needing two good centres but we may already be fairly good in that position with the emergence of Backlund who looks like he can be a great #2 centre.

Monahan, Backlund, Stajan with Knight, Jones, Street, Granlund, Arnold and Jankowski

Centre is actually pretty deep these days. Of course if a centre is the best player left you take him and worry about converting guys to the wing later.

But Ekblad is something we don't have any of. Looks like it'll take winning the lottery for us to get him. Unless Burkie the wheeler and dealer decides he's going to do whatever it takes to deal up. I'm not sure Ekblad is key enough for us to do that though.

Draisaitl is intriguing to me out of the non-top 3 guys. Sounds like he plays a power game and we need guys with skill who do that.

01-29-2014, 12:59 AM	#860
Flames Draft Watcher In the Sin Bin Join Date: Oct 2001 Exp:	All this talk of needing two good centres but we may already be fairly good in that position with the emergence of Backlund who looks like he can be a great #2 centre. Monahan, Backlund, Stajan with Knight, Jones, Street, Granlund, Arnold and Jankowski Centre is actually pretty deep these days. Of course if a centre is the best player left you take him and worry about converting guys to the wing later. But Ekblad is something we don't have any of. Looks like it'll take winning the lottery for us to get him. Unless Burkie the wheeler and dealer decides he's going to do whatever it takes to deal up. I'm not sure Ekblad is key enough for us to do that though. Draisaitl is intriguing to me out of the non-top 3 guys. Sounds like he plays a power game and we need guys with skill who do that. Last edited by Flames Draft Watcher; 01-29-2014 at 01:01 AM.