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Originally Posted by devo22
Keep Gillies, Kulak and Prout. Waive Rittich and send him down alongside Valimaki and Andersson.
not the sexy picks, but there's no harm in giving your top D prospects some more time to develop. Did they play well in preseason? Yes. Did they force Trelivings hand in terms of spots on the opening night roster? Don't think so. Let them be the top pairing in Stockton and give them some looks later in the season. Prout can be the toughness #7 who eats popcorn for 60 games. Gillies has shown more than Rittich (who'd easily clear waivers).
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My thoughts on Kulak are that he and Stone make the 3rd pairing a pretty visible disaster.
Keeping Kulak over Prout as the 7th could work, but going into the regular season I think Kulak/Stone are a bad enough pairing that they could lose us games.