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Originally Posted by Paulie Walnuts
Yup and its not depth, it just burying guys that need to play.
Huberdeau talked about it, he went from 20 minutes to playing 14 under Sutter and being benched in final minutes. I can't do much if I am sitting on the bench.
Players need ice time to produce, having 30 goal scorers on the 3rd and 4th lines and whining they aren't scoring.
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Reduces trade value. Someone is going to get the shaft in ice or they all will get a reduce role.
Kadri gets 19+ a night. Try and go with an upgrade at 4th line center over Rooney and where is the ice coming from?
Rooney gets 9 a night, Sillinger would need 14 to have a chance to succeed. Backlund gets 18+ and maybe you can take some from him but as it was pointed out, he needs to be on the ice against elite players. Who takes that from him? Sillinger? Frost? Kadri?
We need to upgrade the top 9, not put top 9 forwards on the 4th line.
We need to promote prospects that deserve it too.
It's going to get messy here when players need to clear waivers.