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Originally Posted by ForeverFlameFan
Except we don’t need depth. We’ve been on the depth train since forever, we need high end skill. The league is turning into playing your skilled players for 22/23 minutes a night. Those extra 6 minutes the top end players of the opposing team are burning us. Eichel >> Forsberg/Arvidsson/Konecny>> Frost
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So we are short on skill players and are going to trade two of our best, plus a pick that has the best chance of landing another one, for one possible high skill player? What happens if Eichel doesn't turn into this super high end performer that so many around here think he is? What happens when he comes to Calgary, has no one to play with, and doesn't compare to the German Gretzky let alone McHobo? What happens when he's the same player in Calgary as he is in Buffalo? The way you beat teams with this "high end" talent is to grind them into the ground by rolling four lines at them that can score and play tough hockey. We need depth. We need another top six player to achieve that goal. Reducing the number of quality players we have is no tonic to what troubles this team. We need to turn one or two of those players into three or four.