Just food for thought: if a team in the top 5 was desperate for d help and schaefer is gone, and offered the flames their top 5 pick for Parekh, would you take it?
Likely.
Lets assume the top 4 are Hagens, Misa, Matone and Schaffer, not in order.
The next pick, be it McQueen, Frondell whomever, depending on how these guys progress, would be considered a better prospect than Parekh.
Plus would fill a position of need.
But I would want to see who that pick would be first.
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You would also have to wonder why a team would be willing to trade a top 3 pick for a #9 overall the year before. Especially when it's almost impossible to get back into that range, Montreal was offering an unprotected 1st, and they got turned down.
You would also have to wonder why a team would be willing to trade a top 3 pick for a #9 overall the year before. Especially when it's almost impossible to get back into that range, Montreal was offering an unprotected 1st, and they got turned down.
Thats why I specified a team looking for a dman. I think it woudnt happen, just throwing out a hypothetical for discussion.
Maybe a team like Columbus who has Fantilli, Lindstrom, Monahan, Johnson, Sillinger potentially down the middle. If they feel like they're better off with a top pair dman rather than yet another center like McQueen moving forward, maybe theres something
Man, that's a tough one- and I'm not even the biggest Parekh fan.
If a team offered a top-3 pick for Parekh, I would probably jump on it- and the 4th-overall will get you McQueen. It's a conundrum, because Parekh could be our shot at having a truly elite #1 D-man, but we have a big logjam of quality prospects on the backend....
Not for me. Flames may have lots of solid prospects on the backend, but that #1 offensively elite defensive prospect is so important. He went 9th, but other than Levshunov and Yakemchuk, who was a bit of a surprise where he was drafted, all of the elite defenceman fell last year, in a d-heavy draft year.
Not for me. Flames may have lots of solid prospects on the backend, but that #1 offensively elite defensive prospect is so important. He went 9th, but other than Levshunov and Yakemchuk, who was a bit of a surprise where he was drafted, all of the elite defenceman fell last year, in a d-heavy draft year.
Understood, but the offence is non-existent. I think they have 6 combined assists.
The entire D look to have stalled out on offence. You would think something would bounce off something and tip in.
Parekh, I agree, is the next elite Flames defender, but I don't think how many points the D are scoring in the AHL means anything in November.
The AHL is a development league for young players. The coaches know that Bryz and Poirier can score, but can they play defense? Can they be responsible? They're probably being told to focus only on defence.
It feels like this is the Flames' development strategy for young defenders. Solovyov who's typically been seen as and developed into a steady shutdown defenceman has 3 goals and 8 points in 12 games this year. That could be a fluke, but the coaching staff may feel he's strong enough at defending and ready to take some offensive chances.
He's listed as a C on the OHL website, and he's taken more faceoffs than anyone else on his team by a lot. In fact he's taken the most face offs in the league. Pretty good too winning 55%
He's been playing C this year.
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He is, Saginaw eased him into the center roll, his first year(22-23) he was mostly at LW, 23-24 saw him at center for about 25 games, this year it looks like he's all center being top five in league FO's taken and wins.
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