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Originally Posted by 868904

Vegas and St. Louis don’t have “number 1” centres but they are also HUGE teams. All their players and fast AND big. Flames are still too small. If they want to keep Johnny, Mangy and Dube, they need to add size WITH speed everywhere else especially in the “bottom 6”. Ryan has to go, can’t bring back Reider, and Jankowski has to be replaced with someone with a pulse.

It can’t just be Lucic and Bennett doing all the heavy lifting for you in the playoffs, both those guys were literally done after 7 games of lifting.

Doesn’t matter how they change the top 6, they need a big upgrade for the “4th line”. They need a big strong defensive centre who can kill penalties, win draws and be generally truculent. They need at least one other big winger like that too. If they can reacquire Hathaway, that’d be great, low cap hit and exactly what this team needs. Myles Wood would be great too but he has a pretty big cap hit. Nate Thompson and Brian Boyle as centres would be available but they are also older and their game could fall off any time.

You don't think Ryan O'Reilly is a #1 center?