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Originally Posted by flambers
Personally I really like to see the Flames have a player like McGratton on the team. He doesn't take bad penalities can play his role effectively.
Remember 4th liners are 4 to 6 minutes maybe 7 minutes players a game.
Challenge is they can't have to many.
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Yep. The problem isn't McGrattan, Jackman, Bouma or Galiardi in isolation. It's the fact Hartley is playing all 4 of them in the same game. I think ideally all four of those guys are 4th liners. Which means at least one of our top 3 lines is taking a hit offensively by playing a grinder.
I doubt Hartley is suddenly going to change his mind on playing these guys. So we either wait for an injury or a trade to reduce the LOFT quotient on the bottom couple lines.