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Originally Posted by dino7c
right this second but with an injury or two on D maybe not...
there is a case to be made Rooney should have been sent down but camp performance has to mean something.
Either way its not a huge deal..
If I told you guys the Flames would be a .611 Hockey Club on October 30th you guys would call me a big fat liar. Now here we are and we are nitpicking 4th liner and 7th/8th dman moves.
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Agree it's not a huge deal - but I still think the organization depth would say that Schwindt would be more important to have than Barrie or Hanley.
We have literally no RH Center's in our entire org.
Let's say we didn't have Hanley or Barrie (or even both)... I'd have absolutely no concern with Solovoyov, Kuznestov, Grushnikov, Poirier, or even Brzustewicz getting some NHL spot time in the case of an injury. In fact I wish we had more space to give those guys a look this season in case of an injury or trade, instead of the two 33 year olds with no real future on this team.
I am no fan of Schwindt but if Vegas thought he was good enough to claim on waivers and keep as an everyday NHL then I'm probably missing something.
The correct move was not signing Barrie - and honestly nothing in training camp or the first 9 games of the season makes me think they were right to sign him.