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Forum: Armchair-GMOct. 4, 2023 at 11:54 a.m.
Thread: last preseason against ottawa
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Heineman is likely the 15th forward because he's waiver exempt. I'd like to see Armia as 15th instead.
So if you send Heineman down as the easy call, you still have Armia as the most likely waiver candidate from the forward group.
Even if they send down Slafkovsky due to his waiver exempt status, Armia is still next on the block when Dvorak comes back.
This is assuming that we don't want to risk Ylonen on waivers and we want to play Pearson to give him some trade value as a rental.

Waiving Armia is a near inevitability so he might as well be first. There's little to no risk of him being claimed over other options.
Even more so if we only carry 13 forwards for the first stretch of games (we start the season with all but 1 game at home so don't necessarily need extra skaters).

That lets us carry 3 goaltenders to give Primeau some starts and evaluate him before risking him to waivers. Allen doesn't need to play a lot, he's just there to collect a check in a mentor role and give Montembeault the odd day off.

Still one tough call on D. Do we risk Lindstrom who we just acquired? Do we care if we lose him, or was he just a side effect of making Petry happy?
Or do we send down Barron for more seasoning because he is waiver exempt?

It's possible Pearson plays himself off the team rather than recover some value, but otherwise, barring a trade (or injuries) there's simply no room up front until at least the trade deadline.