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Originally Posted by Bingo
Jagr was signed before final cuts, but they kept Hathaway for one game until Jagr was made official. Doesn't change the fact that Jagr was brought in to be a top 9 forward which made Jankowski expendable.
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Keep nailing yourself to that cross, Bingo.
But, yes. Jagr took Hathaway's roster spot, and Glass took Jankowski's.
And given our tire fire of a "fourth line" not infrequently gets more ice time than our third, focusing on the top nine doesn't really carry much value. Particularly given Bennett himself hasn't exactly shown he should be in the top nine.
The point, of course, is that we hamstrung ourselves by keeping an unnecessary plug in Glass when we already have Stajan and Brouwer. Jagr's presence pushes Brouwer down, while Jankowski's presence shifts Bennett to the left side, which in turn pushes Glass out. It also gives us options to switch those bottom two lines around as needed depending on how well any of those players are running. All of this makes the Flames better from day one than the roster that was actually constructed did.