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Originally Posted by Flames Draft Watcher
Since this relates to exactly what you're talking about. Here's a quote from the Francis article linked a few posts up from this.
"The club’s priority over the next few days revolves around acquiring a high-end defenceman to round out a top four every bit as impressive as Nashville’s and Anaheim’s.
The plan after that is to land a significant fifth defenceman to ensure at all times the team’s biggest strength revolves around its back end.
“That’s the model,” said Flames GM Brad Treliving of a direction many teams want to take but only a few can."
I think getting an amazing top 5 defense would really makes us a cup contender soon. We'd have the depth to survive an injury or two to the blue line. I know some people think we need a winger for some reason but I'm fine with the forwards mostly as is and spend all our spare money on getting a really good 4th and 5th dman. We already have enough dynamic talent and skill up front IMO, it just needs to mature. Rounding out the defense makes us a real threat.
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Defensively they are already pretty good if they get decent goaltending.... we saw that last season.
Obviously a strong partner for Brodie is a must have. Beyond that though they can muddle through with cheaper journeymen or some of the kids on the farm.
They need to add some offense somehow though. Whether its a pure offensive guy up front or getting some more scoring from the blueline (which is hard to count on)
This formula was shown to be the case pretty clearly in the SC final. Niether team was top 10 in GA last year....both were in the top 10 in GF however.