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Originally Posted by neo45
"I think the style of play, people talk about big and whatever word you want to use, I think you need to have heavy teams now," he said. "I think you have to play a heavy game. That's not just a personal preference. Turn on the TV tonight and watch the games.
"There are steps along the way. We've got to take a lot of steps but in order to be there at the end, to build a championship, you do have to have a blueprint and you look at the games that are being played now. It's hard hockey. It's heavy hockey. It's a man's game. It's a big boy's game out there right now. In order to have success, I fully believe you have to have a team that can play in those games."
Straight from Treliving’s mouth before he traded for Bollig and drafted Hunter Smith
So yes the proof is in the pudding
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Andrew Mangiapane, Matthew Philips, Dillon Dube, Adam Fox, Emilio Peterson, Dimitry Zavgorodiny, Ryan Francis, Jakob Pelletier, Ryan Francis, Matthew Coronato.
None of these players resemble Hunter Smith. I’m not sure they’ve drafted a player whose defining attribute is size since Smith. That was 7 years ago.
Proof is in the pudding, indeed.
That’s not to suggest the Flames wouldn’t prefer the larger player if all things were equal. If you could clone Gaudreau and modify his DNA in a way that would make the clone 6’4” 220 lbs there isn’t a hockey executive in the world who would take the 5’8” 170 lbs soaking wet version.