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Forum: Armchair-GMYesterday at 2:26 p.m.
Thread: Sillinger Offersheet
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>squashmaple</b></div><div>Oh, it was absolutely rushed. No "a bit" about it. He benefited his rookie year from being Voracek's personal center. Then the next year Jake suffered his final concussion in Finland and LTIRed (and just officially retired this week), and Sillinger proceeded to have a dreadful sophomore slump. This year, he rebounded and was arguably the team's best center by the end of the season, usable in all situations. He's probably still a 3C on a good team with an optimistic Cirelli comp, but defensively reliable centers who can play up or down the lineup as needed are definitely worth 5.5 mill. Columbus also is historically starved of centers, so I think while 5.5 for his first RFA deal feels high, the org would be pretty motivated to keep him.

Also I do not think the Flyers should be risking that first.</div></div>

Interesting, appreciate the insight. I definitely agree the Flyers shouldn't risk the 2025 1st in any way shape or form, the East was crazy volatile this year and the chance for regression to a lottery team is fairly significant next year.

Fantilli-Sillinger-Voronkov has the potential to be a really great Center group IMO