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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Stajan's been tied to some anchors this season in Bollig and Jones. There have been times where his line has been genuinely effective. Colborne-Stajan-Jones was arguably our best line early this year. Jooris on Stajan's RW has also been effective. And I was really a fan of Grant on Stajan's LW today.
Stajan is not a traditional 4th line center, and due to our abundance of top 6 centers (Backlund, Monahan, and now Bennett) it's tough to find a 3rd line role for him.
I would prefer his cap hit go to a guy like Eriksson too.
But Matt Stajan can be effective. Just get him the F away from these Bolligs and such.
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In Monahan's rookie year Stajan / Backlund were the Flames #1/1A centres with 18 minutes each of ice time.
He had 14 goals / 33 pts in 63 games... The year before 23 pts in 43 games.... Basically a Centre version of Frolik .5ppg and doing some checking and PK.
Flames rolled the dice and extended him 4 years and thought/hoped that his play on a awful team would carry forward to be top-6 on a playoff team.
He didn't get bumped to 4th line until Monahan took over as #1 and Backlund as #2 last year