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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
. Five years from now, I don't want to be lamenting passing on a Kane/Panarin style combo like Bennett-Keller so we could draft someone who was tall.
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Bennett-Keller has potential to be much more than Kane/Panarin.
Bennett and Keller are both natural two-way centers... they have the potential to be a better Bergeron-Marchand type shutdown line... except with more offensive skill
Then just throw a Hathaway type on the other wing to muck things up and tap in gimme goals.
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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
Don't be fooled by the Flames being 11th overall in GF as a lot of those goals came from playing Hartley's high risk/reward system. Its very likely the Flames will play a more defensively responsible brand of hockey under the next coach and that the offense from the blue line will take a step back which will put more pressure on the forwards to generate offense. This team lacks skilled wingers more than anything outside a starting goaltender as Hudler's offense has yet to be replaced and they wont be a playoff contender with guys like Ferland playing a top 3/6 role.
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Good post though you undersell Ferland. Ferland can be a 15-20 goal scorer and has every other tool to be a top 6 guy as a compliment. He looked fine on Johnny/Monny's wing even if he wasn't sniping top shelf.