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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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Conroy has a similar problem on D. Not sure why he resigned Hanley. If Parekh is making the team there’s a pretty big logjam with Andersson kicking around.