All this Coleman talk is reminding me of Frolik.
I'm not saying they are the same player or that Coleman is about to fall off a cliff the way Frolik did but we need to be honest when looking at the makeup of the team or else mistakes can be made in order to keep an aging asset.
Tre bridged Tkachuk to keep Frolik around. Like I said not saying these two things are the same other than needing to look at things more objectively.
How many LS wingers do we have on the team and in the system?
How many spots do we have available?
It really isn't that hard to see that we have too many wingers. Farabee was on the 4th line and Zary wasn't even dressed.
Who makes the most sense for a rebuilding team to move on from while there is still value in his game?
We aren't moving Coronato, Huberdeau, Sharangovich, Zary or Klapka. Moving newly acquired Farabee seems far fetched as well. Lomberg and Pospisil can be the makeup of the 4th line so they don't really matter for the purposes of this discussion.
Who does that leave?
This isn't about not wanting to keep Coleman per se. It's just the realistic cycle of a team in our position.
We have Huberdeau, Kadri, Backlund, Weegar and potentially Andersson, depending on if he re-signs, who, most of which, play more imperative positions, since we don't quite have the same organizational depth of NHL ready C and D, to be our veteran leaders.
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