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Originally Posted by Bingo
I'm annoyingly optimistic, but I'm not seeing it all that bleak.
The Flames have a lot of good young pieces, the key is to move the pieces that don't fit what you will be doing in two to three years and keep the ones that will fit that plan.
The team has shown to be a pretty shrewd drafting crew in recent years, and that's big in both using additional picks, and in potentially identifying players to acquire that are ready to pop.
The league has shown more of a retool process instead of the full blown rebuild in recent years.
At least the team isn't facing the economics that they were coming into the mid 90s that made that era the definition of bleak.
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The roster isn't terrible but they badly need a legit top line center that drives the play and distributes the puck. They got by with Monahan when he was a dangerous shooter and Gaudreau was on his game to get him the puck but now neither of those things are happening they just don't have an offense that scares anyone. It's been weeks now that the opposition has been limiting them to a single goal on most nights. I just don't see where this retool fix is as first line centers typically only become available via top 10 draft pick. Look at how much interest was in Dubois and it's not even clear if he's going to be a legit 1st line center. Really tough when your organization is a have not at the most critical skater position.