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Originally Posted by GioforPM
He is not close. He is behind other centres who are playing wing. He was passed over for call ups, even at spot forward duty this year by Granlund, Shore, Baertschi, Wolf, Poirier.
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Granlund 2nd year pro who made the NHl team out of training camp.
Shore 4 year pro with 78 NHL games
Baertschi 3rd year pro
Wolf 25 year old 6 year pro who was going to be a UFA so it was now or never to see if he was worth keeping.
So basically the first year pros that were better than Arnold - Gaudreau
Guys who might be as good Poirier and Agostino.
Jooris did not get called up for garbage time in his first pro season either. Didn't seem to hurt him from being a pretty regular NHLer in his second year as a pro.