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Originally Posted by playmaker
Well, the way I see it... there's something wrong with our center group and it's
a) a lack of size and strength
b) faceoff ability
I feel that as much as we need to find our new Joe Nieuwendyk, we're going to need our new Yelle and Otto even more desperately. In fact, Corgan Knight is IMHO the only prospect that may develop into the big, strong and faceoff winning bottom 6 centre.
Sure, Otto or Yelle are the types of guys you don't want to draft in the top 5 but as we know they are often key figures so I hope Treliving and Burke are going to address this issue with our 2nd round pick or via trade.
I wouldn't be surprised to see one of Granlund / Backlund moved before the draft.
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I would also add lack of speed. Posters are kidding themselves if they think this management would have monahan , Backlund, and granlund as their top 3 centers 3 years from now.
I don't think they would move either Granlund or Backlund this summer, but could see it in the next couple of years. Even if they move one of them to wing it would just mean someone else from wing would be shipped off.
I see no chance that all of Backlund, Granlund, Sven, Johnny hockey, are all on this team come 3 years from now. Somebody is getting moved and for the first time in a long time that's a good thing. Flames are finally going to be able to trade a youngster and get some value back in trade. It was only a blink of an eye when our best call up was Kolanos. Lol