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Originally Posted by Enoch Root
Just speculating here, but there is lots of smoke around the Flames and PLD. If they are in fact discussing a trade, that explains the Flames' squeezing the cap as hard as they are (they would still be cap compliant with a 21 man roster, including Ryan, for instance).
I think it is probably pretty unanimous that Ryan is better than Nordstrom. And while the PK argument is valid, Ryan is also one of the best PKers on the team, so pulling him to get Nordstrom's PK abilities in the lineup, is not really a gain.
I think they are going to try and get by with Nordstrom for a while, in order to buy some cap relief, not because they think he is a better option.
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It is for cap room though...which is why, at times, you will see one over the other.
I still think you see both in the lineup more often than not though.