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Originally Posted by Macho0978
Backlund will not be our 4th line center and anyone who says it could happen this year is silly.
I don't care about Kirkland, but his role with the team is what a 4th line role should be. Lomberg played the whole year and played 8:39 per game.
Pospisil and Klapka will not be happy playing 10 mins or less per game.
Honzek will take it for now, but is it the best for his development? No, and the Flames will not put him in that role for extended periods of the season.
Kirkland, Lomberg, Morton, Hunt, Ciona and maybe a few kids with potential will rotate in and out with these types of players on the 4th line.
Conroy needs to make a trade. He has 11 top 9 guys and a bunch of young players that can sub into this role.
Pre-season is going to put more pressure on the log jam when young players push to make the team and there is no spot for them.
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Well, no, some people who think Backlund could be the 4th line centre are thinking about the line deployments differently than you do. Assuming that the 4th line has to be filled with tweeners that play under 10 minutes a night doesn’t really jive with the reality of good teams with depth.
Go look at Dallas. Nobody who played more than 7 games played less than 10 minutes even strength. And only one of those guys played less than 11:30. Virtually every regular forward on that team played nearly 12 minutes or more at even strength. Dallas is a much better team currently with better high end talent, and you’re pretending it’s impossible for the Flames to find a spot for a young player and that there’s a “log jam”? lol.
Conroy has 11 top 12 guys, maybe. He does not have 11 top 9 guys. No playoff contender is looking at this team and marvelling at the top 9 depth.