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Originally Posted by Regorium
I would favor icing a veteran team if the veteran team would become the fabled "stanley cup contender" rather than just making the playoffs.
That means that the veterans are good enough to win the division/president's trophy. If your veterans are not capable of top 2 in conference/top 5 league, then play your prospects (and hope that your prospects become the veterans that will be capable of top2/top5).
To quantify, I'd say that if your veterans provides your team with 10-15 points in the standings above your prospects, then you should play your veterans.
Basically you would play a Giordano over Andersson, but probably not a Stone over Andersson, and definitely not Bartkowski over Andersson.
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1. No one would have considered Nashville to be "good enough to win the President's trophy", so I think you're setting the bar too high.
2. Perhaps I misunderstand you. A 10-15 point swing could easily be the difference between playoffs vs no playoffs. Are you really saying you would sacrifice (at this point in the Flames rebuild) a playoff spot in favour of playing more prospects?