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Originally Posted by dammage79
At this point I think we could have saved us some money and skipped signing Ryan. Seems like we could have just inserted any farm player into the lineup and been just fine.
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Disagree with the last part. Our centre depth isn't actually all that great unless you move some players who are currently on the wing back to centre. And that's when we're fully healthy. Imagine Monahan or Backlund goes down for any extended period. Yikes.
Ryan hasn't been great offensively thus far but he is serviceable NHL depth. I like that it allowed us to demote Lazar and help rebuild his offensive confidence.
Too early to say the Ryan signing was a mistake. Lets see how he does over the course of the season and how useful his depth was. I don't really see anybody on the farm I'd rather have centering the 4th line.