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I think we are all kidding ourselves if we imagine that the coaches did not have even an instinctive inkling about who might be on the opening night roster. Lots of names pencilled in. "Always earned, never given" means forcing their hand to the point that they have NO CHOICE but to erase a name and replace it with another. Gaudreau has effectively given Hartley no choice. I'm not convinced—even though Baertschi and Jooris both had a really good camp—that you can say the same for each of them.
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