It will be interesting to see how Tatar and Nyquist perform against the Bruins this year. The Bruins are the kind of team the Flames will have to fight through to get out of their division in the future. Will the much larger Bruins be able to marginalize smaller players like Tatar and Nyquist? My hunch is yes, but I guess we'll know for sure in about 2 weeks.
They both had good regular seasons, but they're also both small LWs, of which we have plenty already. Poirier projects to be more the kind of player that championship teams need. We'll see though, he could scrub out altogether. It will really be at least 10 years before we can say whether Poirier + the 2nd we got for Berra are worth more than Tatar and Nyquist. Assuming anyone even cares at that time.
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