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Originally Posted by Bingo
I honestly don't think that's the way good GMs operate.
I think Jagr took Jankowski's spot and with that he went down. Since then Bennett hasn't found his game and Jagr got hurt so they made some changes. With those changes Jankowski came up and has proven in a 4 game sample size that he can hold his own in a regular season NHL game.
So now you move Hamilton not because Jankowski has proven he's better, as that was always the case, but now that Jankowski seems to have proven he's better than the next guy in line to be a healthy scratch most nights which I'm guessing is Lazar and/or Glass. Or I guess put more simply, now that Jankowski has proven he's a better option in the top 9 than other players. That couldn't be known from just a preseason look.
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I don't agree with this at all.
You're basically saying that training camp is irrelevant. The top 9 spots are already claimed and that there was nothing any player could do to prove their worth.
I don't think good GM's do that. I think good GM's reward impressive performances. You get surprise players making the team out of camp on a lot of teams in the league.
I mean, I will eat crow in that Treliving actually did the right thing and kept Janko, but the original decision was still terrible.