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Originally Posted by Flames Fan, Ph.D.
I would agree and would even say that the organization may have been surprised by the level of the youngsters coming up. With Janko and Hathaway performing, I suspect it gave them further confidence in regards to the high performers in Stockton. That likely made it easier to have confidence in plugging Mangiapane in and waiving FHamilton.
And with Jagr's recurring injury situation, it looks bad to automatically plug him into the line-up when healthy and drop a well-performing youngster.
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I agree with this. I remember the whole reason for waiting so long to sign him in the first place was to see if any of the youngsters stood out. That didn't happen initially so B.T. pulled the trigger on Jags. It is no secret though that our GM would have preferred to fill holes internally before signing the G.O.A.T, now he has that option with the strong play of our youngsters.