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Originally Posted by Monahammer
I see a lot of peeps in this thread supporting Richie as a 4th liner.
Cool, but we already have 4 4th liners with contracts today: Dube-Lucic-Rooney-Lewis
And we have a host of prospects looking to push into the big club.
We're already giving a PTO to Eakins, too. IMO Eakins is much better than Ritchie and fills the same role. So where does Ritchie go? It's a waste of cap space and a contract spot to give this guy a contract outright at this time.
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Dube isn't a 4th liner on today's roster. He wasn't a 4th liner on last years roster.
Huberdeau - Lindholm - Mangiapane
Dube - Kadri - Toffoli
??? - Backlund - Coleman
Lucic - Rooney - Lewis
Ritchie
Really Pelletier, Ruzicka, Milano are probably fighting for the ??? spot in the middle six.