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Originally Posted by dammage79
Flames have no need for Nylander, So I have been told 100 times.
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If you think that's my argument then you haven't been reading my posts.
Skilled finesse wingers are useful players. I just believe they are the least important. I think its dangerous to allocate too much of your cap space to that type of player. I think defensemen, centres and skilled powerwingers are more important. I think you can easily pick up skilled finesse wingers at the deadline. A few years back Vanek, Cammalleri, Gaborik, Hemsky and Moulson were all available the same deadline! EASY to find wingers when you're a contender. You don't need to be building around too many of them and we already have one of the best purely skilled finesse wingers in the entire league to build around. You need to build around franchise goalies, franchise centres and franchise d-men.
It's not that the Flames don't need Nylander. They could very much use a player like that. It's all about getting the best asset out of the draft, the most valuable player. I don't think Nylander will be the most valuable player long term out of all the players available at #6 because finesse wingers are one of the least valuable assets in trade and often end up on contracts that aren't appealing in terms of the cap.