[Caged Great]

Drafting for size is important. Drafting solely because they have size is one of the stupidest things you could do.

The Flames are full of small players. You can only realistically get away with 2 undersized guys on your roster, unless they are more like Brad Marchand. If you have Gaudreau and Sven on the team, that's about all that you can have realistically if you want to compete for a cup. All of the teams in the past 5 years that have won the cup have had a large amount of bigger bodied players.

If you look at our division, all the other teams save Vancouver and Edmonton are full of larger players, especially the Californians. Size > Skill in a playoff series (not a full run though). Look at Montreal vs Ottawa. Montreal was extremely short and the better team, but they got bounced easily by a bigger Ottawa team who frankly sucked.

If the Flames want to win down the road, they definitely need to address size, especially with our tiny defense corp.