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Originally Posted by ComixZone
We aren’t flawed. We’d just like to have a good team.
Lindholm has 1.5 seasons under his belt as a centre, and is coming off a playoff where he got destroyed by an elite centre.
The definition of elite is fairly undefined, I’d say that he is not in the realm of Crosby, Malkin, McDavid, Mackinnon, Bergeron.
I’d put him in that tier of prime aged O’Reilly, Schenn, Nugent-Hopkins.
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We don’t know what a good team, or specifically good players, looks like.
This is a fan base that loves a winner, but if they ever get a pumpkin? Oh boy, every player is suddenly average, every player having a rough season was just smoke and mirror before and we all “knew” it then, every player isn’t actually good enough to be what they are on the Flames on a “contender.” We’re a miserable bunch who take losing like losers, and take it to heart, while anything outside of generational talent and Stanley Cups doesn’t do anything for us. You bet it’s a flawed fanbase. The diehards are at least.
However you want to define it, Lindholm might not be McDavid, but he’s better than any of the three you mentioned. Elite defensively, puts up at or around a point per game even without elite wingers, great at faceoffs, leads one of the best penalty kills in the league. End of the day, your chances of getting anyone better are low because nobody is stupid enough to trade anyone better and you have to be extremely lucky to draft anyone better. If that’s not elite, cool. But it’s better than “good.”