Calgary Flames Not Solely Need to Get a Middle However a Defenseman Too
The Calgary Flames made a trade last week as they acquired Morgan Frost and Joel Farabee from the Philadelphia Flyers for Jakob Pelletier and Andrei Kuzmenko. Calgary had been on the lookout for a middle, and so they nonetheless are on the lookout for that age-appropriate middle. Nevertheless, with accidents piling up on protection, Flames GM Craig Conroy may look so as to add depth on protection forward of the commerce deadline.
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Pat Steinberg joined The Fan 690 Hockey Present to debate whether or not Craig Conroy is completed upgrading this roster. He was requested if the Flames may dip their toe into the rental market and what space nonetheless wants enhancing probably the most.
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Host: “So after we’re speaking in regards to the play of Dustin Wolf, and the way it’s continued, and this commerce that they simply made, and the truth that they’re in a playoff spot, and so they proceed to be in a playoff spot and enjoying effectively sufficient to take care of that standing. Do you assume that Craig Conroy is completed right here, and if he’s not, what do you assume he’s trying so as to add proper now?”
Pat Steinberg: “I don’t assume he’s achieved, and I feel it continues to be the identical dialog; apart from, like, actually small tinkering strikes. I don’t assume Craig Conroy goes to get himself into the rental market and get himself into the sort of transfer that’s solely going to be serving to proper now.
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I imply, if it’s going to be a small worth to assist an space, I feel they’d be just a little bit extra okay with that proper now than they’d have been initially of the season, however positively not into the big-time rental market.
However one space that I feel remains to be fairly necessary for this group is one other left-side defender and and a man that may sort of solidify issues. As a result of they’ve proper now, Kevin Bahl is damage. He acquired damage on that hit from Jakub Lauko of the Minnesota Wild, and it’s knocked him out with a suspected concussion ever since.
However with Kevin Bahl and Rasmus Andersson, you’ve acquired a number-one pairing. And previous to the damage, I even assume, going into night time, they have been, I feel, quantity six by way of five-on-five ice time performed collectively. In order that they have this pairing all 12 months of Bahl and Andersson. So when Bahl returns, they’ve acquired that.
However what they haven’t had is plenty of continuity of their subsequent two pairings. MacKenzie Weegar has hung out with Joel Hanley, who was a waiver declare final 12 months, and Daniil Miramonov who was the man, the NHL participant who got here again in final 12 months’s (Noah) Hanifin commerce. And neither man has actually been capable of solidify being a second pairing. They’ve appeared to search out their third pairing with Jake Bean and Brayden Pachal is sort of an on a regular basis look, however they’re nonetheless on the lookout for that man to solidify issues with Weegar.
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And the issue is, when Weegar performs with Miramonov, he performs his offside on the left, and a minimum of when he performs with Hanley, he performs a powerful facet on the precise. However, and that is no disrespect to Joel Hanley, however Joel Hanley was quantity eight on the depth chart coming into this season, and was a waiver declare final 12 months. If this crew needs to make some inroads within the playoffs and perhaps solidify their playoff positioning, can they discover one other left-side defender that appears to suit the identical mould because the commerce with Philly?
You already know, guys who’re in that sort of age vary and could be with this crew for extra than simply the remainder of the 12 months. However I feel even when they’ll’t discover that, they could search for just a little depth on protection. And I feel a left-shot defenseman can be an space they’re on the lookout for. But when they’ll discover it in that age vary and pull off an identical sort of deal to deliver a man in that has some crew management mid-20s sort factor, I feel they’d be that greater than anything.”
NHLRumors.com Notice: The Calgary Flames wish to add an age-appropriate middle. They continued to be linked to Dylan Cozens. Calgary is within the playoff combine within the West, battling the Vancouver Canucks. Craig Conroy already made one commerce to assist the offense. Nevertheless, with one in all their prime defenseman out of the lineup, he’ll look to bolster the backend as effectively. Conroy is rewarding his crew for being on this place as a substitute of promoting off property, not like final season.
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