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Originally Posted by PeteMoss
This guy is 7 months younger than Russell and 1.5 years younger than Smid. I get the whole new shiny toy thing. But he's old. Born in the same year as Bollig.
He's a depth guy. Maybe he can be a cheap #6, but there is no reason to go wild over the guy not getting shot.
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I don't think anyone is saying he could be a core player for the team. The fact is that Russell is going to be UFA and in the event he's not on the team next season they will need to fill his position and they would probably be better served to see what this guy can do in a lost season like this rather than waiting until next season where they will likely have expectations of improvement and possibly playoffs. This season got derailed early in part due to a bad goaltending experiment so we may as well get some more experiments out of the way this season rather than next.