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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Ruzicka showed nothing to suggest he was ready to be their #3 C last year. In fact, he still hasn't - he is succeeding on the wing this year.
And Zary certainly wasn't ready last year.
They needed a C and they went out and got one
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Sorta ... they went out and they got a winger and then they played him at centre. Jarnkrok hadn't regularly played down the middle since 2018ish.
I'm not trying to relitigate the Jarnkrok trade, it looked fine at the time in isolation — it's just part of a larger trend of the Flames giving up a lot of draft capital for mid-rotation forwards.