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Originally Posted by Scroopy Noopers
This is my point. Having a guy on the “3rd line” isn’t really a negative thing or a limitation to a team that is deep. It’s about rolling as many lines as you can, and using PP/PK specialists where they fit best.
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Agreed, but before we start the season we can’t artificially inflate our depth by putting our 1st or 2nd best RW based on all information we have right now and slotting him in on the third line behind a career AHL player to date who we arbitrarily decide will play top line. Fantastic outcome for the Flames if James Neal gets pushed to the third line, but slotting him there right now behind a guy who has yet to even come close to proving he can out play Neal just falsely inflates our line up.