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Originally Posted by New Era
But you're okay with giving an unproven player a 750% raise for six years? What happens if this Cirelli kid proves to be nothing more than a third or fourth liner on a team that is stacked like the Lightning? You then have a contract worse than Backlund's and approaching Lucics. Way too much risk in an offersheet for a player of that caliber. You save offersheets for difference makers, and third line players are rarely difference makers.
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Yes. Yes yes yes. 1000 x yes.
Cirelli is an excellent hockey player and if the Flames can get him signed to a deal like that and only lose a 1st and 3rd they had better do it.
Cirelli had only the 8th most PP time of all the Bolt forwards but still scored at a 0.65 point per game clip....as a 22 year old sophomore.
So far in his career he's started in the Dzone 54.5% of the time, but still has a 53.3% corsi% and a 52.7% fenwick%. He's a defensive dynamo, and tilts the ice the right way when he's on it.
Despite being just 22, he led the entire Bolts forward group in penalty kill ice time..by a full 42 minutes total.
He was the 2nd line center on like what...the 3rd or 4th best team in the league?
His points per 60 minutes 5 on 5 was 1.91 despite being used in a defensive role. That'd put him 3rd on the Flames last year behind Tkachuk and Mangiapane.
He's a smart, two way player that works his butt off, he'd be an amazing addition. He's not an "elite" guy offensively, but he contributes to winning hockey games. Just look at the way he's utilized by one of the best teams in the league.