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Originally Posted by mikephoen
Hathaway is a guy that should almost for sure see games in the NHL this season, so I think he should make the 20 on that basis alone. Sure, it will be as a 4th liner, but it is round 19 after all.
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Why does he only have 4th line potential?
He put in 19 goals as a 22 AHL rookie on a team where the leading goal scorer had 20. As a 22 year old he had a better ppg in the AHL than a 22 year old Ferland.
If the Flames are going to go with forward pairing of Monahan-Gaudreau, Backlund-Frolik and Bennett-Brouwer there is a good chance that Hathaway will have some chance to play in the top-9 (Chaisson-Bouma-Ferland are the most likely guys he has to out-perform)
David Moss was a 24 year old 4th line rookie.
Glencross at age 24 finally broke through as 4th liner with the Oilers.
A couple of years later they were a solid 2/3 line with Conroy and then Morrison as their centre.