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Originally Posted by Bingo
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To flesh this out ...
Jankowski, Ferland, Bennett, Frolik, Shore, Lazar, Mangiapane, Dube, Foo should be enough to make a bottom six pretty formidable to be honest.
But Monahan, Gaudreau, Tkachuk and Backlund is two players short.
Brodie for a guy in to add to the latter group, essentially means you only need one of Jankowski, Bennett, Ferland, Frolik or Foo to be the weakest link in the top six. That seems doable.
Redo that list without Brodie bringing in a top six though and you have two players to be in a top six essentially rendering the second line with two players potentially over their heads.
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I like this line of thinking. What gives me pause though, is you're essentially saying the Flames are a top six forward away. And I'm just not sure last year's results really bear that out.
Maybe I'm not convinced the players you mention make for a "formidable" bottom six. Maybe more like "adequate". And adding a top six forward doesn't make the top six formidable necessarily either.
So perhaps this team is a top six forward away from being a playoff contender, and need someone else to break out to get beyond that.
All of this assumes the defense and the incoming prospects play up to their billing.