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Originally Posted by #-3
To my memory, the Flames were down 3 of their top 6 at one point in the playoffs, I think Lydman, Leopold and Gauthier were all out, Montador and Commadore were #7/8 starting the playoffs, and basically played the whole run as a 3rd pairing. 1 game the dressed Brandon Evans, gave him 35 seconds in the first period then played the game with 5 Dmen.
I think it's incredibly likely that with a couple bubble players on the 3rd pairing, Ference and Warner as a second pair, and Regher + whoever happened to be healthy as the first pairing the players were openly advocating for the hotshot rookie to dress
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Leopold wasn't injured, at least he never missed any games. The team played 26 games and here is how many each defensemrn played:
Ference - 26 GP
Regehr - 26 GP
Leopold - 26 GP
Warrener - 24 GP
Commodore - 20 GP
Montador - 20 GP
Gauthier - 6 GP
Lydman - 6 Go
Evans - 2 GP
Having one more d for depth would have been nice. Evans played two games but had so little ice time I'm not sure you can even say he played.