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Originally Posted by EN FUEGO
That's a good comparison, Yelle was a beauty.
My initial reaction was "but Lewis is a bigger version of Yelle", but they are basically the exact same size.
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Yelle played a little higher in the depth chart (out of necessity , 04 team was not as deep and had injuries), more firmly the 3C but for sure some similarities to Lewis
while I had no real expectations for the 04 playoff run (who could?) I had some confidence (and was bold enough to say it on CP at the time) regarding 2 factors
1. the flames had the league goal leader and GAA leader- and up to that point, every team in modern NHL history with that combination made it at least to the semifinals
2. In Conroy and Yelle they had 2 centers that could legit shadow or shutdown what were then the 1-2 punches that most of the big guns in the west had at C in a pre-cap era ( some similarities to what LA can roll with Kopitar and Danault- who yes are obviously better all around than Conroy-Yelle)
Yelle was so sandpapery great....Lewis that's fine company