By the looks of the way the lines are shaping up it looks like the battles will be for 3rd line LW and 4th line C and LW.
Front runners are probably:
Zary
Rooney
Duehr
Pelletier
Hunt
Coronato
Klapka
Guessing two will get sent down. I don’t really see a good fit for Coronato in this roster.
Also 6th and 7th Dman. Big log jam there.
Front runners being:
Pachal
Hanley
Solovyov
Barrie
Tinordi
Brzustewisz
Kuznetsov
Grushnikov
Guessing 6 will get sent down or not offered a contract. We have tons of good young defenders. I hope they don’t slot Tinordi or Barrie into these spots. I think we have enough young guys that need a chance. If you’re going to rebuild don’t sign guys in their 30s for development/support roles. Give the young guys a chance.
Maybe one of the goalie spots but I doubt that one. Think Wolf and Vladar are probably the guys.
Looking at everything it seems like the Flames loaded up a bit too heavy on Dmen last season. There seem to be a lot of young guys with nowhere to go. On the forward side Coronato is starting to look like an oddball. They are pretty light on non 4th line types.
Seems like the roster isn’t balanced very well. It’ll be interesting to see what the final product will be. Looks like so trades might be needed to balance things better. Maybe that is the plan in the second half of the season if things don’t go well.
My guess at the final roster is.
Huberdeau Pospisil Mantha
Sharangovich Kadri Kuzmenko
Zary Backlund Coleman
Duehr Rooney Lomberg
Hunt
Coronato
Weegar Miromanov
Bahl Andersson
Bean Pachal
Solovyov
Wolf
Vladar
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