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Originally Posted by Five-hole
Once again, we have a lot more familiarity with Poirier and have seen some flashes of NHL upside. But every other team is trying to sneak similar guys through to the farm and have no room on the NHL roster for a Poirier.
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This is just it. Since we can put a face and name to a player in our eyes it elevates the player. How many times have we seen players put on waivers and the eventual response is "ooh, so and so was a higher pick, Flames should take a flyer on him" and the player ends up going through.
At this time of the year every team is in the same boat as they pair down their rosters. Picking a player up at this time is only going to make them have to send another one of their roster players down.
It is the waiver wire during the season where it starts to get a little difficult as every team is at the roster limit and like we found out with Byron, it is injuries or events that cause teams to look at the wire. It is all about timing.