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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
So a rookie making the team only counts if a veteran was put on waivers to make it happen?
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The original statement was that a rookie has a snowballs chance in hell of beating out a veteran for a place on the team.
My response to you was which Flames vets did Gaudreau, Monahan, Baertschi, Bouma, Brodie, and Backlund take jobs from?
Nobody.
If you are a rookie, and you're good enough, and there is an opening on the team, you have a pretty good chance of making the team. ... otherwise forget it.... you will be sent to the AHL until there is an opening either through injury or a vets contract has expired. Sending the vet to the AHL, instead of you, just ain't gonna happen...
Now normally I would probably agree with this because the team usually has a lot invested in a vet to just take the chance in losing him on waivers... but what has the team invested in Setoguchi? Nothing.