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Originally Posted by tigermask48
This is true but I'd put at the very least King and Nolan in that graduated category with Bernier and Voinov. They are really only a couple of games shy of the 65 needed to be off the list and both likely have spots locked in on the opening night roster.
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Perhaps, but they still have only played 26 regular season games with us, only 46 if you include the playoffs, and as much as the spots are theirs to lose, we are stocked up on forwards, and it wouldn't be the most shocking thing ever if say Clifford got a fourth line spot ahead of Nolan. They are still variables. For all we know The top 3 lines end up:
Brown-Kopitar-Williams
Gagne-Richards-Carter
Penner-Stoll-Lewis
So now it is a melee between Westgarth, Fraser, King, Clifford, Nolan, Richardson, and whoever else shows up in camp (i.e. Andreoff etc...) for the fourth line. Richardson has put up about 30 points before and has a lot of energy and experience, he could beat out Nolan. They are still prospects at the end of the day.
Oh yeah, and I vote to add Martin Jones.