This thread is full of arguments that make no sense to me.
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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Because you risk letting guys go by not qualifying them or to waivers. Guy that can legitimately help the team.
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So you're suggesting we get rid of some of these guys now?
Because you fear we might have to get rid of them later?
Just generally I really don't see what you're getting at. Why would we not qualify the players that need qualifying? And what does the risk of losing a good player to waivers have to do with having too many players?
If we lost a player then by definition:
a) He was somewhere below 12th on our depth chart, or in other words not important
b) He was better than 12th on our depth chart, but we lost him because we misjudged talent.
The amount of forwards has nothing to do with it.
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Assuming our top 6 wingers (Bouma/Gaudreau/Hudler/JOnes) stay pat and Stajan stays pace and Bennett/Backlund/Monahan/Stajan is our center situation, that means we've got 4 spots avaialable and another 2 bodies for the press box.
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That's just a whole lot of assumptions. Bouma is far from securing a top 6 position. He hasn't even had one full season at that position. Jones is 2nd/3rd line forward according to needs.
Also, are you sure Stajan is going to be our 4th center when both Jooris and Granlund have played more minutes on average?
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We have to choose six of the following:
Raymond
Bollig
Byron
Colborne
Ferland
Jooris
Shore
Wolf
Long term, two have to be let go or be put on waivers.
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Why are Granlund, Stajan and Jones not on that list but Colborne is, even though Colborne has played more minutes per game than any of them?
More importanly, what does this have to do with anything right now? Most of those guys have played a whole bunch of games this season so clearly they we've had a use for them.
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Originally Posted by Red Menace
I like Stajan to an extent, but paying your 4th line C $3.5 million is awful cap management, regardless if you can afford it or not.
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Those two things are
literally mutually exclusive. If you can afford it then by definition it is not awful cap management. The cap is a team number, it is not calculated by player.
In general, we have the cheapest team in the NHL and we're very close to pushing the reigning cup champions out of a playoff spot, and you still want to complain about our cap management? You're not asking much are you?
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Originally Posted by Fire
My concern is not with the money these guys (Stajan, Raymond, Bollig, Jones) are being paid, but the clutter of forwards the Flames are going to have next season. I count 16 forwards that could easily be on the NHL roster next season. If Poirier needs more time in the AHL then that drops to 15.
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15-16 forwards is not clutter, it's depth. It's what you want. This season 14 forwards have played 40 or more games, plus another 9 forwards have combined for another 75 man-games. That's a total of 23 forwards used.