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Flames Draft Watcher · 01-10-2019, 03:43 PM

I don’t like the idea one bit. Reasons why I don’t like it

1. Moves Ryan too far up the lineup. You might get a touch better scoring from the 2nd line but the amount it weakens the 3rd line neutralizes any improvement you get. Hathaway isn’t a centre so you’d have to play Dubé at 4th line centre and I don’t think Dubé on the 4th line is a good idea either
2. We wanna develop Jankowski at centre. He’s likely the long term replacement for Backlund. His size is great at centre. He’s well on the way to developing into a future 2nd line centre. Disrupting that by moving him around makes no sense to me.

Rather try Dubé up there if anybody. I feel like Dube needs to be given a chance on a scoring line again at some point.

01-10-2019, 03:43 PM	#18
Flames Draft Watcher In the Sin Bin Join Date: Oct 2001 Exp:	I don’t like the idea one bit. Reasons why I don’t like it 1. Moves Ryan too far up the lineup. You might get a touch better scoring from the 2nd line but the amount it weakens the 3rd line neutralizes any improvement you get. Hathaway isn’t a centre so you’d have to play Dubé at 4th line centre and I don’t think Dubé on the 4th line is a good idea either 2. We wanna develop Jankowski at centre. He’s likely the long term replacement for Backlund. His size is great at centre. He’s well on the way to developing into a future 2nd line centre. Disrupting that by moving him around makes no sense to me. Rather try Dubé up there if anybody. I feel like Dube needs to be given a chance on a scoring line again at some point.