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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Well he's got good hockey sense and defensive positioning. This is part of the reason Hartley trusts him. He does have the shot to be a 20 goal scorer at some point in his career this season. His skating is improved and is fine.
On the downside he is small and non-physical. Which means he doesn't match up well vs other teams top centres.
I'm torn on Granlund. I don't mind his play and I think he has more upside than he's shown. But overall I think his line hasn't been as effective and I think he lacks size to be an ideal #3 centre. I question his longterm fit with Bennett, Monahan, Backlund, Grant, Jankowski, Arnold, Stajan all at centre.
If he has some value I think Treliving maybe should use him as a trade chip before next season.
All that said he's 3 times more useful than Raymond was. Raymond hurt the team, hurt his line. Granlund is capable but not impressive.
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I think we need to see Granlund play some Wing before talking about shipping him off. He has every skill to develop into a Jiri Hudler.