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Originally Posted by Aarongavey
There are a lot of first line centers
McDavid
Matthews
Pettersson
MacKinnon
Hughes
Point
Crosby
Zibanajed
Stutzle
Malkin
Miller
Tavares
Hischier
Larkin
Eichel
Benn
Barkov
Pavelski
Kopitar
Aho
Horvat
Scheifele
Cozens
Draisaitl
I guess the question is whether Lindholm puts the Flames on a Stanley Cup trajectory for me. If the answer is no get some pieces that help put the team on that trajectory. I would say he is the 15th to 20th best center in the league who will be in his 30’s for the contract. Unless he is Pavelski he will be worse rather than better throughout that contract. If he is starting as the 17th best center in the league right now, what is he in 5 years?
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Well, if he gets paid $8.5M he’ll be the 17th highest paid center in the league, so… perfect? In 5 years he’ll probably also be paid right around where you rank him.
You’ve convinced me. This is a smart signing.