Timing is right for us to not have to worry about seats at the dome anyway, with the new arena coming. Silayev, if he checks enough of the Flames boxes, will be a fine pick and a potentially elite one if he lives up to the positive-leaning opinions of him. Flames will be bad at least until the new arena is in place and the bump from that new building plus an up and coming young team might mean we don't care about this pick not being the sexy offensive star by then.
I think next year's draft is the most important as far as picking high and finding that #1 center.
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