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Originally Posted by Fighting Banana Slug
I think most would agree, that if he and management think he is ready, burning a year of ELC is not that big of a deal. I also think that management will need to consider how to incorporate all of these young players in the next few years. Monahan/Poirier/Klimchuk/Seiloff/Wotherspoon/Ferland/Johnny/Agostino/Ekblad? all could be introduced to the NHL in the next few years. Likely not a good idea to have them break in all at once.
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Great point. I believe the average # of players that leave the NHL a few years ago was 2-3 players.... so the natural # of incoming players should be 2-3. For a rebuilding team, maybe a little more... but good to stagger them
It would be great if guys like Horak and Backlund (out of the NHL by 2014, book it!) could be stable NHLers by the end of the year, and maybe a few guys like Sieloff and Ferland and even Paul Byron start making the jump by the end of the year before the Gaudreau/Klimchuk/Porier start making the push.