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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
This argument ignores injuries.
If you simply axe a player in order to make room for Jankowski, and then there are suddenly a few injuries, you have unnecessarily weakened your depth and now you're in trouble.
The only reason Jankowski wasn't up sooner is that there were no injuries. Criticizing management for that is really short-sighted.
You don't weaken your depth just to get a kid up a few games quicker. The injuries were and are going to happen. Most seasons, the original 12 man roster doesn't see the ice a single time. It just so happens that the Flames went through camp and most of October without an injury.
Oh noes.
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I have full understanding of waiver rules and asset management. But intentionally icing a lesser team team to protect minor assets is an error.
If you don't believe that Jankowski is one of the teams 12 best forwards, then fair enough. If that is your viewpoint then I respect that, although I disagree from everything I have read and heard.
But it isn't about lack of understanding or poor asset management, it is about icing the best roster you can.
And not being willing to risk one of Glass, Hamilton, Lazar, Hamilton, or Brouwer on waivers is poor team management. IMO.
Or Oh noes if you prefer.