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Originally Posted by GranteedEV
Lazar, Brouwer, Freddy Hamilton, Stajan.
All either worse PKers than Granlund, worse ES players than Granlund, or both.
...You need more than four players to kill penalties. There's nothing bizarre about saying Granlund would have been our fifth option while playing a PK/Scoring bottom sixer role.
I am one of Stajan's most ardent defenders. But dig into it and you discover that he was consistently one of our least effective PKers last year. Part of that was absolutely playing with Bouma and Brouwer, but part of that can be confirmed with the eye test.
And Lazar is not currently a better player than Markus Granlund. His upside is basically... a more aesthetically pleasing Markus Granlund.
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Comparing Lazar and Granlund in style couldn't be further off the mark.
When you're getting down to trying to justify someone's role and fit on the team because you believe they might be the fifth best option on the PK (subjective / debatable) you're reaching.
Just as you're reaching bringing Brouwer into the equation. He has a no-move clause and isn't going anywehre.
Which brings us to the point that all of this nit-picking your doing is really irrelevant, because they're no magic hypothetical situation where Granlund would be available to us right now.
He was moved partially because it was felt it was better take a chance on a prospect better suited to wing, and because of his pending waiver status at the time he was moved:
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Granlund didn't work as a winger for the Flames, said Calgary general manager Brad Treliving, and with plenty of centres, the organization had a hole to fill, for a goal-scoring prospect, where Shinkaruk fits.
Treliving also noted Granlund could be lost on waivers next season if he doesn't stick in the NHL – whereas Shinkaruk remains exempt from waivers.
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At best, it's debateable he'd be a good fit as a bottom line winger as the roster sits now.
It's certainly nothing to lose sleep over.