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Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Sutter is just telling us what we’ve always known or at least should’ve known, that this team never had a legit #1 center. Treliving traded for Dougie and Hamonic and spent all kinds of assets and moolah for wingers and goaltenders and extras. But that elite number one center position was always the glaring hole. It took the league 5 years to finally figure out how to stop our dynamic duo and now that they have, this team is left exposed and has fallen apart like a cheap suit.
I honestly don’t even want Jack Eichel if all it’s going to do is create holes every where else. If we traded Lindholm, Tkachuk ++ then are we any further then where Buffalo is? We’d be another one line team with an injury prone #1 center. Mediocre bubble playoff team anyway you slice it. Might as well just tear it down. But honestly, I don’t have much faith in this organization, they always disappoint, just like this team. I won’t sit through another 2010-2013 Flames. Too many other entertainment options available then to watch a middling team scratch and claw their way to #9th place in the West.
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Getting and developing a good centre is a long-standing weakness for this franchise. The best all-arounder they've developed is Backlund (not counting Monahan for obvious reasons), before that it was probably David Moss. Right now the most promising young player who was drafted as a centre, Dube, they're playing on as a 4th line winger (sound familiar?). Unless they're drafting a can't miss centre at 1 or 2 I can't see this organization being able to support and develop a #1 centre internally.