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Originally Posted by Bingo
Teams that trade their firsts and seconds every year used to be just mortgaging their future for the present, but now they're mortgaging their present too because third and fourth liners are so unlikely to rise above the froth and become impact players.
You need those young players coming in and taking up spots.
The Flames have three on the blueline right now, and one up front on the second line.
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* two on the second line... Sam Bennett?
Not much for defenseman besides Rinat Valiev, Andrew Nielsen and Josh Healey.
Lots of forwards to potentially fill in the ranks up front though...
Mark Jankowski
Austin Czarnik
Andrew Mangiapane
Dillon Dubé
Spencer Foo
Matthew Phillips
Filip Sveningsson
Mathias Emilio Pettersen
Demetrios Koumontzis
Martin Pospisil
Milos Roman
Adam Ruzicka
Dmitri Zavgorodny