Flames should fire their 4th line. We’ve been beaten soundly by other team’s 4th lines this season (i.e. Canadiens, Leafs, Flyers & etc). Wouldn’t it be nice to have a 4th line that could have won us a game or 2 by now? Would anyone be complaining if our record was 20-13-3 instead?
People give the 4th line a free pass because they know they stink. But guess what, the amount of ice time they play in an 82 season is equivalent to 12-15 games. If we want to be a .600 winning percentage team, how can we be that if the 4th line isn’t going to win us their fair share of games? Other 4 lines do it, why can’t ours?
I say we fire the 4th line instead and bring up Mangiapane, Hrivik and Klimchuk. Hathaway and Jankowski have come up from the minors and are currently playing on one of our best performing lines. It could work out well.
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