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Originally Posted by boogerz
Florida was essentially running with three centers the entire playoffs - Barkov, Bennett, and Lundell - not unlike what the Flames were doing with Lindholm, Backlund, and Kadri earlier this year.
Lundell was averaging 17:00-18:00 mins a night (excluding the big 4OT game against the Canes) during that run while mostly playing with Reinhart and Luostarinen at ES, taking lots of D-zone starts, and anchoring their second PK unit (Barkov had PK1)
He's already a good player that can comfortably hold down the #3C spot on a president trophy worthy team, and has room to grow on both offense and defense. If he ends up on the Flames, it's a safe bet that he'll be Backlund v1.1, but even better at faceoffs than Backlund is.
The Flames could do a lot worse than Hanifin for Lundell on a 1:1 swap...if Hanifin is a pure rental to Florida. Personally, I think he's a way more compelling "get" than Poitras or anything that the Canes can offer.
Poitras is still young, but his WJC performance this year was really disappointing for someone playing in the NHL...there was no reason he should have been as invisible as he was.
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Never said he wasn't a good player. The comment was using the old "went to the cup final" as a selling point is useless. You know who else did, Ryan Lomberg. This isn't comparing the 2 players but if Lomberg is traded is the fact he went to a cup final a selling point. No it's not. Lundell is a good young player and could improve with more icetime, but to think the Flames would trade a top 1/2 defencemen signed to an extension 1 for 1 would be a mistake.