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Originally Posted by flames_fan_down_under
I agree.
I always felt Monahan and Gaudreau were great pieces but did not fit the typical elite team model and they needed another ace down the middle.
The Leafs had Marner and Matthews and still pursued Tavares. We never added another top piece up front.
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That piece is one that pretty much only comes through the very top-end of the draft. Toronto had to pay $77 m for seven-years of John Tavares to get one, and drafted #1 overall to get the other. You could say that the Flames missed on drafting Barzel in 2015, but I don't think anyone on earth had him pegged as a top-line NHL centre, and at the time conventional thinking was that Bennett would be that for Calgary.