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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Not sure how serious you're being but I'll tackle it anyway. If there's any position the Flames have an overabundance of it's probably centre. IMO all of Monahan, Bennett, Backlund and Jankowski project as top two centres if the younger ones develop well. Lazar, Hamilton and Stajan as depth centres. That said an excess or overabundance of quality centres isn't a particularly bad problem to have. You can move one to the wing and then you have versatility in your lineup.
If the Flames moved any core player IMO it could be a young centre for a young top 3 defenseman. But I think we stand pat with these centres for now.
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Id like to keep those guys, move one to wing if too crowded at center.
What I mean is a truly expendable player who could still fetch something decent. Ferland? Yah maybe but can we give up on his potential when it's combined with the size? We've seen what he could be, just needs the consistency.
If stupid Brouwer had scored 23 goals and got 2 in the playoffs he would be the perfect chip. Someone expendable to be packaged for a galchenyuk type player and the team getting Brouwer could sell their fans on the playoff vet we got told we were getting. But he couldn't even put up those measily numbers
Who else can we trade? Getting pretty bare on picks. No blue chip prospects (mostly because chucky is a core guy in the show already). We need to move cap space (brouwer to Vegas, bribe them with a b prospect or 2) and go the free agent route. I see no other options.