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Originally Posted by Caged Great
Granlund is a good player, but how many times have you seen a team with a player like Dallas' version of Niklas Hagman (give or take what Granlund is projecting to be at the top end) win the cup with that type of player in a second line center role?
2013, Toews + Bolland
2012, Kopitar + Richards
2011, Bergeron + Krejic
2010, Toews + Ladd/Bolland
2009, Crosby + Malkin/Staal
2008, Datsyuk + Franzen
2007, McDonald + Getzlaf
2006, Staal + Brind'Amour
2004, Lecavalier + Richards
Unless Granlund magically develops into a player close to Monahan's calibre (not impossible, just very unlikely), then he won't be quite good enough if he's going to be a center and we want to win.
I'm not saying that he's bad, it's just that if your team has him too high on the depth chart, that likely means your team just doesn't have enough talent. If you don't have enough talent and depth, you don't win. Granlund could surprise and become an awesome #2 center on par with a guy like David Krejic. It could happen, but you don't usually see TJ Brodie type jumps in the level of their play, and that's what it would take.
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Well if that's the case lets just tell him to stay in Finland.
You have no idea where he'll fit in on the Flames but to me he looks promising, so I'll just take the wait and see stance.
As for comparing him to Hagman, they have nothing in common as far as playing styles, so this just shows how weak your assessments are.