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Originally Posted by transplant99
The Flames don't need a 50 pt winger?
They had 1 last year. MT would have been 2 without his injury.
If there is a single thing the Flames need more than anything...its a scoring winger and particularly one that can play with Gaudreau.
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A scoring winger would be ideal. Don't think we particularly need one to play with Gaudreau though, Ferland was fine there. Our #1 line was fine and produced like a #1 line should. The problem was the lack of a second scoring line. Our checking line was counted on as our second scoring line and our 3rd line basically was another 4th line.
IMO we need a scoring winger that can play with Tkachuk-Jankowski or Tkachuk-Bennett. Then suddenly we have two very dangerous scoring lines and Backlund-Frolik can be a two-way checking line that can also score some.
Or you re-gig the lineup entirely to create two scoring lines. For example
Tkachuk-Monahan-Bennett
Gaudreau-Jankowski-Ferland
Frolik-Backlund-Lazar
The lineup above has no new additions and IMO would be WAY deeper offensively than the way GG created his lines. I happen to think Treliving will add another top 6 forward to create an even deeper lineup than what I prepose above.
But anyways my point was that a winger for Gaudreau is not really what we need. We just need 2 scoring lines and an elite two-way checking line that can score. That can be accomplished a variety of ways and keeping Gaudreau-Monahan-Ferland together can be part of solution. That line works great together. I'm fine to see it split up as well but I don't understand anyone's insistence that Gaudreau needs a better winger than Ferland. What we need is another dangerous scoring line that Gaudreau isn't on so that we have a two pronged attack instead of being a 1 line offensive team.