veganhunter
Mexico City Coyotes!
Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary are all playoff teams, could you identify their 3 scoring lines? Starts with goaltending and defense. Areas we need to upgrade. Scoring is not our problem. And when it is, it is usually because our skilled players are frequently outmuscled. I am afraid of how Connor-Petan-Roslovic would fare against a veteran line of physical players, the failures both Connor and Petan have had is not in their linemates but their lack of physicality. Lowry is going to wear an A someday, for the Jets, giving him up, for nothing, would be a mistake, imo.
To answer your first question
Flames
Gaudreau Monahan Ferland (probably not fair to include Ferland all recent streaks aside, but even if you take him out still closer at 8/9 than we are)
Tkachuk Backlund Frolik
Versteeg Bennett Brouwer
Their 4th line C Stajan has as many points as Lowry and 4th line winger Chiasson is outscoring both of our 3rd line wingers as well.
Canadians
Yeah that's a mess and their D is awful too. They have the best goalie in the league by a significant margin though.
Ottawa (when healthy)
Ryan Turris Stone
Burrows Brassard Hoffman
Dzingel JGP Smith
Dzingel is probably borderline but he's on pace to score nearly same amount of points as Lowry and Matthias combined (as is Smith) and on pace to outscore every player not on our top 2 lines (as are JGP and Smith).
The outmuscled aspect we aren' going to agree on nor the line mates issue. Maurice should be salivating about deploying those guys against the remaining "Thorburn types" though.
Not saying I want to give Lowry up, he's an elite 4th liner but I'd rather have Myers (especially when you consider the importance of defence which we seem to agree on) and Perrault. Can't see Vegas passing on Lowry for Dano, Copp, or Armia.
Or to put it another way, would you trade Myers for a guy like Lars Eller or Patrik Berglund? I wouldn't and they are both big defensively sound 3rd lines centres who score/have scored a lot more than Lowry is ever likely to.
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