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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
paying Marner $14-$16M, even though he isn't the center that we need, is insanity
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The only way it makes sense for me is if the Flames can trade for another young centre. Say you sign Marner, but also find a way to maybe trade for a bit of a reclamation project in someone like Zegras. Maybe for our Florida 1st?
Huberdeau-Kadri-Marner
Zary-Zegras-Coronato
Farabee-Frost-Sharangovich
Coleman-Backlund-Klapka
Lomberg
Hanley-Weegar
Pachal/Bean-Andersson
Bahl-Parekh
Wolf
With continued progression for Zary and Coronato, along with maybe a change of scenery providing Zegras a bounce back, those forward lines are full of depth and perhaps slot Backlund into a better spot to focus on defense since his offensive game seems to have fallen off a cliff. Flames draft a centre this year and work to fill up the centre depth with our 1st this year and 2 1sts next year to prepare for Backlund eventually retiring.
Parekh adds a new offensive aspect to the backend and hopefully improves the PP along with Marner being a speedster who I think would mesh well with Kadri and Huberdeau. Then we have D prospects like Mews, Bruz, Poirier, Morin and Poirier ready to jump in and fill spots taken by Hanley/Bean/Pachal at some point. Pachal seems like a perfect 6/7 D but Bean and Hanley are good stop gaps for the time being.
Then Wolf in net. I like the look of that lineup.