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Originally Posted by strombad
I'm still pretty comfortable in my estimation that Horvat is going to end up as a bonafide 3rd liner (2nd liner on a bad team).
That said, I think if you're picking in the top 3 this year you're going to get a great 2nd line type with serious 1st line potential. After that? Well, we can argue about Virtanen, or Dal Colle, or Draisatl, or Ritchie etc, but the upside of all of those guys is probably 2nd/3rd line once we're near contention, so I'm not really that into one over the other. I guess it depends what you want your middle lines to look like. I think a guy like Virtanen fits better in that role as opposed to a guy like Dal Colle, but we'll see.
Honestly, if we're not getting Ekblad, Reinhart, or Bennett, we've already kind of lost out.
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I do think Fleury has top 4 D potential, so all is not lost. I like the look of Virtanen but picking him that early would be quite the reach.
Also, I still think we'll be making a strong push for one of those top 3 picks. It's unfathomable that there could be this many teams worse than the Flames this year.
PLUS it's about freakin' time we win a draft lottery or something.