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Originally Posted by Macho0978
With Backlund and maybe Lomberg now, I see Coleman getting signed next summer too. I don't mind keeping these guys at a discount to fill in the bottom 6, but we need to upgrade the top 6 and sometimes you need young players to start on the bottom 6 and work their way up.
For me Klapka starting on the 4th line is disappointing. He is past the point of working his way up. We need to give him a crack now.
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I'm on the opposite of the spectrum, we need the bottom 6 to be a place to ease our young players into the line up. I don't think we're in a position to let 4/6 of those spots be eaten up by vets who won't be sent down with retirement contracts. Backlund, Lombo, Coleman and 1 of Frost/Farabee/Sharky eats up those spots and probably all 3 of the 3rd line. We have too many prospects to be graduating 1 at a time imo. I don't think we need any more than 2 30+ in the bottom 6 to help out, that could be Frost or Farabee on the 3rd line and Backlund on the 4th. There's no reason to keep Coleman around anymore as he's just taking a spot and won't be a huge contributor by the time we're contending.
Huberdeau - Kadri - Coronato
Zary - Frost - Sharky
Coleman - Backlund - Farabee
Lombo - Pospisil - Klapka
We already have too many middle 6 players as I would like to Honzek in the lineup, I would like to see Klapka and Pospisil up the line up, I would like to see King or Kerins get a shot in that 4C spot...We just have too many 3rd line players and should be offloading instead of keeping them around.