If we sign him, he likely plays in the ECHL next season, unless he bypasses players on the depth chart now. But if he plays there next season, barring a couple of players graduating to the NHL, or trading away d prospects, he is stuck. Right now in terms of defence prospects it is quantity over quality, and it makes more sense to draft some new guys who have time to grow, keep the 5-6 you like the most, then try to develop them. Roy would be below Wotherspoon, Ramage, Culkin, Kulak, Sieloff and Kanzig. And Hickey could be pro after next season, Rafikov over here in 2, and so on. Every team has middling prospects, so the only way one gets traded would be as a throw in. Maybe they are trying for a trade, adding a guy like Culkin or Kulak to Raymond in a package? Unless someone else goes, Roy can't come in and get real development over an ELC.
He is a victim of the numbers game, and the flames are now at the point of having to find quality rather than stockpiling prospects
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