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Originally Posted by WojtekGoalski
That's right I forgot, Hagelin would be getting top 6 minutes and play the PP. We're talking 3rd/4th line minutes here under a Torts coached team. Regardless of this, I'm 100% confident that whoever they brought up from the Whale would fit the role fine because it happened all season last year (see Newbury) and the guy would have straight out won the spot out of camp and would be paid less to boot. This is a "Tort's is my boy" signing and nothing else. Feds is redundant on this team with both the guys already on the roster and the guys in the system.
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Newbury had 1 point in 11 games, and isn't half the penalty killer that Feds is. Who else is gonna come up and score 30 points, provide a tenacious forecheck and tremendous penalty killing? Brodie Dupont? Kolarik? The excpetionally mediocre Dale Weise?
As far as winning the spot out of camp, well, that's what Fedotenko did last year. Won the spot, and won a contract. You can say that it's just because he's Torts' boy, but he absolutely earned that spot in camp and preseason last year where he looked tremendous. No one could beat him out last year, but suddenly the same guys are 100% going to beat him out? Sure...