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Originally Posted by Toonage
I get the thought process behind Bozak, but I'd much rather the Flames bring back Shore at $1M
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Shore has like 15 career goals in roughly 250 NHL games.
If they rely on him to be a key piece of a productive bottom six the Flames are in trouble IMO. Same with Lazar. these are good depth options that CAN play C but you can put on the wing as well and switch to C if you move a guy up the roster or someone gets hurt.
Flames C depth:
Monahan
Backlund
Jankowski
Bennett (they might still give this a go with a new coach)
Shore
Lazar
Ideally you want to add a C who fits in above Monahan. IE Tavares. If you do that you smashed a grand slam out of the park.
If you can add a C that fits in between Monahan and Backlund, you've still done a very good thing. Like Ryan O'Reilly for example, or Stastny via UFA
Most likely the best you can do (because top 6 C's are hard as F to acquire) is add a solid two way C in between Backlund and Janko in order to ease Janko into a more prominent role and take a little pressure off of Monahan and Backlund.
In any of these scenarios you either move Janko/Bennett to 4C or slide them to the wing somewhere they fit. At the same time you're sliding guys like Shore and Lazar to the wing or right out of the line up because you have better options and they just provide depth and pressure to perform from the bottom.