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Originally Posted by gvitaly
I agree in principle here. That said, the Flames have struggled to develop their top pick centers in the previous rebuild. All of Monahan(#6), Bennett(#4), and Lindholm(#5) became pretty good players, but nothing close to the level of the top 10-15 centers in the NHL.
Crosby lived with Lemieux, then took MacKinnon under his wing. Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I think that the Flames need a development coach that was an elite center in the NHL. I just keep coming back to Jagr, and the influence he had in his brief stint here.
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Are you suggesting that one of Monahan, Bennett or Lindholm was a burgeoning prototypical, top line centre? I disagree. I think they were always what they have ended up being in their best performances—good top six centres, capable of top-line duty, but without the lethal combination of skill, speed and smarts to be dominant in that position.