I'd rather have Parent. No hesitation there really, either. Parent skates sooooo well, and even if he doesn't have the monster size that Coburn might, he uses what he has very efficiently. I just can't see any risk in Parent. He'll be a fine shut-down guy. I have seen an awful lot less of Coburn than Parent, so you can go ahead and accuse me of bias there, but I guess I just like Parent so much that I can't really imagine Coburn surpassing him in my estimation, even if he tops out on many of his upside potentials. Elsewhere, I've postulated Coburn as a future good-version-of-Jassen Cullimore type of defenseman. That's not bad. And that is probably a legit top 3-4 d-man too. But the uncertainty would scare me off. Parent is a sure bet, a slam dunk IMHO. It would be a little bit funny if the Flyers ended up with something young, cheap, and basically filling out the roles of what they thought they were getting by signing Rathje and Hatcher to those monster deals out of these two kids somewhere down the road.