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Originally Posted by codynw
If they can improve the team that's different. It seemed like you were suggesting just dumping them for the sake of dumping them. Who is going to replace them that might be an improvement?
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There's already just no shortage of players that are at least as good as them on the (projected) roster, and there's a roster size limit that means we're going to end up exposing some forwards to waivers.
Schlemko has already shown things flow better whenever he's on the ice compared to Engelland in either a middle pairing or a bottom pairing role, and I wouldn't be surprised if Wotherspoon, Nakladal, Morrison have more positive impact even if that's not a given. Regardless, Engelland didn't exactly have a whole lot of positive impact himself. He spent more of the season and postseason struggling than excelling. He's a good 7th Dman though so he's not of utmost importance to drop.
Bollig however, you have to keep room available for a plethora of forwards. Jooris was scratched in a game Bollig played in in the playoffs - that's simply unacceptable as Jooris brings much, much more to the table than Bollig. Evaluating objectively he's a waste of a roster spot and keeping him means getting rid of either a better player (Ferland/Byron/Jooris) or a player with a much higher ceiling (Shore/Wolf) still trying to find his NHL game. Shore definitely won't clear waivers.
Simply put, our roster depth is much deeper now, especially after adding Bennett, than it was going into last season, but the 23 man limit is unchanged. End of the day if Arizona wants to inflate their cap hit, these guys have more value to them than they do to us. There's also Granlund, who's going to get unjustly sent down to the AHL because of that, even though he basically made the team.
