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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
For me, I feel like they’ve always penciled in Monahan as the #1 center. I mean, I don’t remember ever hearing about any rumblings or rumors about ROR and the Flames or Staal or Tavares. Did the Flames even put in a call to Eric Staal’s agent?
Regardless, I’m just not sure they ever saw the iceberg coming dead ahead and that’s the biggest problem. They didn’t see the warning signs and just assumed the duo would fix itself and go back to the old ways and I think that complacency or apathy or whatever you want to call it has killed them. The playbook was there all along and it may have take a while, but every team has finally seen the page on how to stop them and that duo is officially broken.
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We know he reportedly made a try for Tavares. Staal? Are you talking about the offseason before 2016? He was trending down and coming off a miserable time in NY. He did surge in Minnie. And, at the time, the Flames had just come off their PO win, they had Bennett still coming into his rookie year, and Staal was 32 I think.
O’Reilly I really wanted them to trade for but let’s all be honest - he wasn’t thought of as a 1C back then. 64 points in his best season which was 5 years earlier. I wanted him as a 2C and Backlund would have gone the other way with Bennett (for supposedly expensive ROR and a struggling Reinhart). Turns out he’s a 1C but not exactly an offensive