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Originally Posted by Nelson
My opinion is that we need both.
Gaudreau - Monahan - ???
Tkachuk - Backlund - Frolik
Bennett -??? - Ferland
Shore* - Jankowski* - Lazar/Brouwer/Hathaway*
*must be resigned
-Mangiapane (LW, C), Foo (RW), Dube (C), Gawdin (RW, darkhorse), Phillipps (RW, extreme darkhorse) may all push for spots. However, I don't feel like betting on Foo, Gawdin or Phillipps to play in the 1RW position.
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Peters is about pairs so you can logically assume Gaudreau - Monahan but then it's really up in the air.
Tkachuk is firmly in pair two and I'd assume he's with Backlund.
Then I guess you have Bennett and Jankowski as the starting point, and where the weakness lies.
I think the Flames need a new forward to make one of Bennett or Jankowski a plug in player and not a primary two. With that I think the likes of Ferland, Bennett/Jankowski, Frolik, Foo, Mangiapane are more than enough options to round out the duos.
The issue is the trickle down needed to get one of the third line guys to plug players and away from primary. I don't think it has to be an elite right wing, but it had better be a primary top nine.