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Originally Posted by Goriders
Just because of contract situations I don’t know what the team will do if one or two young guns do show up and steal a spot. We already have the one way roster more or less set. I know they always say everyone has to earn a spot. But reality doesn’t always match that.
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Yeah. It’s interesting seeing some teams have multiple rookie spots open for young players - usually on tanking teams. I can’t remember ever going into a season (even during the early years of the last rebuild) where you knew 2-3 rookie players should make the flames squad… simply based on roster spots available. Rather than make the rookies steal a spot from a vet, those teams just make the rookies compete amongst each other for those spots. Not saying it’s a better system - just can’t remember that happening with the flames very often if at all.