Sabres, Knights and Flames have been busy! Definitely got better especially the Flames I think!
Unreal offseason for the Flames, and I'm usually cynical about this squad.
I tweeted this:
#TrustInTreliving:
#Flames GM having quite the offseason.
↔️Hamilton 4 Hanifin/Lindholm deal @ #NHLdraft
🎯Two nice quality, very reasonable signings yesterday in Derek Ryan & Austin Czarnik.
🔥Then to land The Real Deal James Neal, of the prized UFAs out there! Legit sniper.
then looking at potential lines
#Flames Lines
FORWARDS
Johnny Gaudreau - Sean Monahan - James Neal
Matthew Tkachuk - Elias Lindholm (C/RW) - Sam Bennett (C/W)
Mark Jankowski (C/W) - Mikael Backlund - Austin Czarnik
Curtis Lazar (C/W) - Derek Ryan (C/RW) - Michael Frolik
Next in line:
Brouwer - Mangiapane - Foo
DEFENSE
Mark Giordano - T.J. Brodie
Noah Hanifin - Travis Hamonic
Brett Kulak - Michael Stone
Dalton Prout
First call-ups:
Marcus Högström - Rasmus Andersson
GOALIES
Mike Smith
Jon Gillies
David Rittich
*Could see Lindholm as #1 RW, Backlund moving back up to 2C, Neal to RW2 or even RW3 if they want to spread out scoring.
**Ryan offers flexibility as well and likely starts as 3C (above is what I would do)