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Originally Posted by Leeman4Gilmour
As of today, I'd keep Parekh and Mews. Admittedly the easy/safe choice. The Flames were pretty quick to sign Morin to an ELC so they must see something there. Do the remainder get you a good centerman by themselves. No. But that cupboard is so bare right now. Assuming Rooney is gone next year, we only have two 'true' NHL centerman next year. Hopefully Zary keeps doing what he's doing and that certainly helps (I don't believe in Sharangovich as a centerman, but hope I'm wrong). Flames need prospects for future and players for near future. If you need a pick and a prospect to get what the Flames are looking for, this pool of prospects would be where I'd dip into. Or just trade a B-level d prospect (I believe that is the tier Wheeler has most of these guys) for a B-level center prospect, this is also something the Flames may consider. They could also just draft nothing but centerman this year and flip the script entirely.
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I think that's all fair, but I think you may need to provide a better d prospect to get a worse c prospect. In other words a B+ dman might get you a B- Centre b/c of the scarcity of true centre prospects (lots may play centre in junior but project to wingers at the NHL level).
So for instance who could you offer to say get the likes of Cole Beaudoin (utah), Oskar Fisker Molgaard (Seattle), David Goyette (Seattle) etc. Does a Morin get you that? Not sure because every team needs more centre prospects. Makes it tough.
You have unique situations where one becomes available like Gauthier (though not a realistic play for the Flames). Or maybe you can leverage an Rasmus deal to get one (e.g. Lambert from Winnipeg)
But directionally we agree that it needs to be a priority, which means you are either dealing from where you have depth in the pipeline (D) or making it a priority at the draft.