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Originally Posted by FanIn80
Lindholm is 28, not 30. If he's gone, who's our #1C? Kadri?
Teams are built down the middle, and #1 Lindholm, #2 Kadri seems a lot better than #1 Kadri #2 Nothing. Even if we're rebuilding, it's a lot easier to build if you already have 2 NHL centers. Without Lindholm, the pressure to draft/acquire a #1C would completely overshadow anything else, to the point where we'd be overpaying or dropping down spots to take risks in the draft etc etc.
Keep Lindholm, sign him to a contract that's moveable and then we can make hockey decisions to build the rest of the roster.
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Lindholm will be 29 in December so for the vast majority of this deal he will be 30+. For the entire deal the Flames will compete for nothing so honestly I don't care who our number 1 center is, I want someone who will be the #1 center when we are competing for the Cup not competing to see if we get 2 or 3 home games.
Their aren't hockey decisions to be made to improve this roster. It is a mediocre group that needs to be blown up, extending the length of that mediocrity isn't needed at all.
And for all the #1 center talk lets not pretend he is a top level #1 center he is at or near the bottom of that list and nowhere close to the level of the top guys in the league.