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Originally Posted by YyjFlames
That's the point of this thread... There's no obvious spot for King/Bell/Stromgren/Poirier/Ciona etc., so they'll have to exceed expectations and/or the team will have to run into a bunch of injuries/trades for them to play.
Enoch is also right, and Stromgren acknowledged it on his exit last season, that he needs to take a big step this year and play some NHL games or he'll likely get buried on the depth chart with all of the younger wingers coming in over the next two years.
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1: King/ Ciona vs Stromgren vs Porier vs Bell are all very different players and fill different roles on the team.
2: Stromgren is a top 9 player. So we need an injury to a top 9 player or a trade to figure him in. BUT he's also competing for that spot with guys like Pospisil (or Zary, or Klapka, or maybe Farabee, or Kerins, or Honzek!) who's probably on the bottom line, and would move into the top 9 so a guy like Kirland or Clark Bishop or Sam Morton can be activated on the 4th line instead.
Can anyone at all explain to me why Bell is being brought up here? Did nobody watch the Wranglers last season?