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Originally Posted by 442scotty
Im a big Sven fan despite his emotional fragility... but where do you put him right now?.. Looking at todays starting roster... Glencross's spot? Not for a few months yet... Bolig's? Nope... If Bouma doesn't work out his line you could pull him off and move Raymond over. That's the ONLY spot available and the likely one he will get some day but not soon.
The days when teams could afford to have a line of tough guys and a line of checkers as your 3-4 lines are coming to an end. Good teams are throwing at least three scoring lines at you and a fourth that can check and score. And all the players are gritty which cancels out the room for enforcers with no scoring ability.
This is where the flames are headed. And they are not that far off... They are hoping Bolig has a scoring touch, This is probably Grats final year and if Bouma cant find a scoring touch he too will be replaced.. Too many talented gritty guys waiting in the wings..
So having said all that... maybe there really is no room for Sven??
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In Raymond Mason's last 51 NHL games he has 9 goals and 24 pts and is -10.
Sven has 1 goal less ... same points and Sven's -2 looks like a better 200 ft game than Mason's
How is Raymond significantly better than Sven?
In the battle of the Small non-gritty guys Hudler, Gaudreau, Brodie and pick one more .
The GM(s) picked Raymond..... Is that a bad signing.?. It would seem that they were not confident that Gaudreau would be NHL ready when they signed Raymond.