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Originally Posted by Drury18
It seems redundant to have both Gillies and Yonkman on the team. I'm sure they won't be playing top minutes, but will be disappointed if they get minutes over almost anyone else on that roster whose healthy.
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I'll have to disagree somewhat. Gillies is a one-dimentional goon whereas Yonkman has actually carved himself a nice long AHL career because he's decent on the blueline. The face punching is secondary for Yonkman and primary for Gillies.
I'd be okay with Yonkman eating up minutes and slotting, say, Culkin in slowly until he shows he fully understands things.
However, chances are Yonkman will play quite a few games because I would put money on him being named captain. Like in years past where Quintin Laing probably shouldn't have been in the lineup, but was because he was the captain.