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Originally Posted by DeluxeMoustache
lol
Was he ever deployed top 6 C on the Flames, which is … y’know … why he was drafted 4 OA?
And outrage posts are a qualifier of what exactly? I like talking to grownups
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It was a bad numbers game here. The problem with him at centre was that he wasn’t as good as Monahan or (later) Lindholm, and couldn’t handle shutdown like Backlund. So if they were trying to win it wasn’t optimal.
He has a much better situation in Fla, where Barkov has a great two way game.
And it would just be disingenuous to ignore the fact he improved his game after being traded. Some of this was on the player, like was said above.