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Originally Posted by howard_the_duck
neither are what I'd call burners
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The Flames don't have a burner (maybe Brodie). The only true burners we've had in the last decade have been Matthew Lombardi and Paul Byron. Kylington is the only other player who would be considered one and he has yet to establish himself as an NHLer.
There is a huge gap between "not a burner" (which is a fair claim) and "speed not a + attribute" (your claim) or "keep up to NHL speed, but nothing more than that."
I think it's reasonable to think Ferland is in the top ~25 percentile of NHL straight-line skaters, at least as far as forwards go.