06-24-2013, 08:13 PM
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#201
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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Originally Posted by Pierre "Monster" McGuire
That's frustrating to hear. A kid who'd be our #1 center is going to a team deep with centers and will start in the three spot. So unfair.
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Forgot to mention the guy the Flames offersheeted to be their "franchise center" is being moved to wing 
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06-24-2013, 09:09 PM
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#202
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#1 Goaltender
Join Date: Oct 2011
Location: Perth Australia
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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Yet we are still trying to find one #1C 
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06-24-2013, 10:22 PM
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#204
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Miniac
Yet we are still trying to find one #1C |
Yet.....O'Reilly would be a 4th center on a team that was worse than the Flames.
That is how awful the Flames are. Pretty scary!
No?
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06-24-2013, 10:23 PM
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#205
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Lifetime Suspension
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: The Void between Darkness and Light
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Maybe O'Reilly is a franchise (or was it superstar?) winger.
Dead horse and all that, but, for future reference, bullet dodged.
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06-24-2013, 10:25 PM
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#206
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Calgary, AB
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Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja
I really, Really, REALLY hope whoever we draft at 6th turns out to be better than Mackinnon somehow. It would be justice for the Avs tanking away their season.
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The only chance of that IMO is if the Flames draft Nichuskin.
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06-24-2013, 10:34 PM
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#207
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Fire
The only chance of that IMO is if the Flames draft Nichuskin.
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Is that really the only chance?
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06-24-2013, 10:35 PM
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#208
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Cleveland, OH (Grew up in Calgary)
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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Is that really the only chance?
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In terms of pure talent? I would say so.
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06-24-2013, 10:36 PM
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#209
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Hockey_Ninja
In terms of pure talent? I would say so.
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Because Shea Weber didn't go in the 2nd round, right?
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06-24-2013, 10:43 PM
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#210
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
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Something just doesn't seem right here. I'd be very surprised if that was the scenario for the Avalanche heading into the season.
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06-24-2013, 10:44 PM
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#211
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Cleveland, OH (Grew up in Calgary)
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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Because Shea Weber didn't go in the 2nd round, right?
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I know you don't like Russian players but lets face it. If Valeri played in lets say the OHL or the QMJHL with no ties to the KHL then there would be no doubts about him being a top 5, if not top 3 pick in this draft. He was ranked the top forward in the draft by the ISS before the Mackinnon show at the Memorial Cup. He's been compared to both Malkin and Kovalchuk. In terms of talent he's up their with both Drouin and Mackinnon, and the main reason he's likely viewed behind them because of his KHL status. I'm still pretty iffy on him but if Feaster and co. takes him if he's their at 6 then i wouldn't be upset at all. You'd be dumb to pass on a top 3 talent at the 6th spot in the draft.
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06-24-2013, 10:44 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2011
Location: Calgary
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Originally Posted by Ashasx
Because Shea Weber didn't go in the 2nd round, right?
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Obviously eveything anyone does in a draft is a crap shoot but in terms of pure talent that the eye can see, I have to agree that Nichushkin is the best chance you're going to get at supplanting MacKinnon as the most talented forward in this draft. Drouin get marks as well but you're getting that and the added size and speed of the big Russian. In terms of Surefire NHL quality talented forwards Nichushkin and MacKinnon are 1-2 IMO. Honorable mention to Barkov as well.
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06-24-2013, 11:10 PM
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#213
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Lifetime Suspension
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lol@the usual suspects of Harry and Lloyd who can't possibly let a thread just be about the thread topic and have to turn it into a Flames suck thread.
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06-24-2013, 11:13 PM
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#214
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Apartment 5A
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Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm
lol@the usual suspects of Harry and Lloyd who can't possibly let a thread just be about the thread topic and have to turn it into a Flames suck thread.
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Butler sucks?
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06-25-2013, 03:25 AM
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#215
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Vancouver, BC
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Originally Posted by sureLoss
Forgot to mention the guy the Flames offersheeted to be their "franchise center" is being moved to wing |
I just don't see that happening... ROR is a critical C defensively for them... And on the forecheck... Duchene makes more sense on the wing, except that he established himself as the #1C... Goodness, that's quite the problem to have, but it makes no sense to have ROR on the wing, to me... MacKinnon on RW would make more sense, even.
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06-25-2013, 06:47 AM
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#216
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Franchise Player
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pretty funny for all the sucking that the oilers have done and drafting forwards with their top picks, that i would take the avs young guys over the oiler youth.
duchene, o'reilly, landeskog
hall, hopkins, yakupov
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06-25-2013, 06:52 AM
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#217
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In the Sin Bin
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: compton
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The Avs blabbing about who they will pick in advance smells fishy to me. I can't recall the last time a team did that. I think they're trying to milk this for an extra asset, personally.
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06-25-2013, 07:02 AM
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#218
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Scoring Winger
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I don't ever recall a team being so upfront about who they plan on drafting and where they will fit in the lineup for next season. It really does seem to be aimed at getting other teams (ie: Florida) to ante up and move up in the draft. Can't say I blame the Avs
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06-25-2013, 07:06 AM
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#219
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Dead Rear, AB
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Is it possible the Avs are just worried the Flames or someone else are going to cough up a large package for #2 or #3 in hopes of landing Mackinnon and the Avs are just trying to force said team to cough up a little extra to move the #1?
Seems possible given the very odd announcements about the pick.
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06-25-2013, 08:34 AM
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#220
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: CGY
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Quote:
Originally Posted by timbit
Yet.....O'Reilly would be a 4th center on a team that was worse than the Flames.
That is how awful the Flames are. Pretty scary!
No?
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Lol no
The Avs have some great center depth. RoR is still a 2nd line C on over half the teams in the league. The flames have poor center depth no doubt but the Avs problem is not center ice and is not the reason they were horrible this year
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