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Originally Posted by jayswin
McTavish has looked pretty flawed and weak at carrying the puck/zone entries when I've watched. But it's been limited. But if you're not gonna get your number one center through the draft and you're not a desirable market then you pretty much gotta go for a flawed, available through trade guy and hope that he realizes potential/evolves as a player.
Only crappy thing is you're gonna pay through the ***, even for a flawed, high draft pick that hasn't started to live up to potential. You're taking a chance, but you almost have to take that chance if you're not going to fully rebuild.
So far he looks like 40-55 points a year, and visually looks on the small and less intimating end of first line centers (please, someone bring up Crosby again!  ), but knowing where we're headed (not likely getting a first line center from anywhere) I'd just put our chips in with Andersson and add like ****, rather than use Andersson to get a meh pick, meh prospect and meh NHL player which is 100% going to be what happpens, btw. |
I agree with the final sentence, I'd also rather go Andersson + to get a better piece. Other than that though, McTavish is listed at just over 6"0 and at 219 lbs, so he's not small. He just had 52 points in 76 games, or a 56 point pace, as a 22-year old, on a team that scored less than the Flames last season. If you could pry him away somehow or in a 3-team trade you take that chance all the time.