Not necessarily starting 12, but certainly will be with the team. Whether he 'deserves' to be an extra forward or not can be a debate, but I don't think that we can name 13-14 other forwards who have decidedly displaced him from the lineup. For contract reasons, and because he hasn't shown to be horrendous when compared with the competition, he will stay up, but I would be mildly surprised if he were skating on opening night based on his performance so far.
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