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Sylvanfan · 07-02-2025, 10:11 AM

These days most teams employ 4 forwards on the powerplay and for a lot of teams they have two guys playing 24 minutes, another one at 21, than a #4 in the 18-19 range and 13-14 for the third pairing. So a guy playing top PK and 2nd pair ES with no PP can end up around 19 depending on the composition of the teams backend. Florida was playing Forsling around 23, Ekblad and Jones at 21 and Mikkola at 20 with Schmidt and Kulikov around 16:30.

It's becoming a two tier league and a team like the Flames needs someone to take their money until they draft better guys to take over those roles. So he's not going to hurt the Flames, and if you try to compare this to Ekblad it's a fail for sure. But in an environment where the cap is 113 million. One guy making 5.35 to be a 4-5 is not going to crush you.

07-02-2025, 10:11 AM	#114
Sylvanfan Appealing my suspension Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Just outside Enemy Lines Exp:	These days most teams employ 4 forwards on the powerplay and for a lot of teams they have two guys playing 24 minutes, another one at 21, than a #4 in the 18-19 range and 13-14 for the third pairing. So a guy playing top PK and 2nd pair ES with no PP can end up around 19 depending on the composition of the teams backend. Florida was playing Forsling around 23, Ekblad and Jones at 21 and Mikkola at 20 with Schmidt and Kulikov around 16:30. It's becoming a two tier league and a team like the Flames needs someone to take their money until they draft better guys to take over those roles. So he's not going to hurt the Flames, and if you try to compare this to Ekblad it's a fail for sure. But in an environment where the cap is 113 million. One guy making 5.35 to be a 4-5 is not going to crush you. __________________ "Some guys like old balls" Patriots QB Tom Brady Last edited by Sylvanfan; 07-02-2025 at 10:13 AM.