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North_Kariya

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Forum: Armchair-GMMay 15, 2023 at 8:20 p.m.
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Forum: Armchair-GMFeb. 22, 2023 at 7:40 p.m.
Thread: What is the next move
<div class="quote"><div class="quote_t">Quoting: <b>Kyriakos_Grizzly</b></div><div>Vrana just played his first game in a long time - Nothing special and nothing bad to say either. Did only get around 11-minutes icetime.

Lindtröm has been really bad this year and I have no faith in him :tearsofjoy. Both Oesterle and Hägg are really versatile players and one of them must be on the 3rd pair. I would expect a trade to happen.</div></div>

I agree. I have to imagine Lindstrom is the odd man out. I don't think he has played worse than usual, I just think with better defenders around, his skill level is more apparent. It just looks to me like he doesn't have the physicality to keep forwards away from the net.

Their forward situation is a mess (in a good way). A lot of those guys are decent contributors or at the very least are hurting them on the ice. I really don't know who get's benched and who plays. Fabbri might miss a few games after blocking a shot late in the caps game. There's been no major announcement, but it looked like it hurt him a bit. This might at least allow Zadina and Vrana to get more time in the lineup. Otherwise, I would say that Kubalik hasn't impressed me much lately and I would rather see Zadina play than him.
Forum: Armchair-GMDec. 23, 2022 at 12:20 a.m.
Thread: TRADE DEADLINE RED WINGS
wanted to do that math on it as well. They currently have 22 players on their roster (12 for, 7 def, 3 goal). Fabbri, Bert, Zadina and Vrana are expected back sometime in Jan (need to lose 3 players for compliant roster). None of those 4 are waiver exempt, but Bergren, Veleno and Soderblom are. Most likely one of the players being traded or waived is a goalie, which leaves 14 forward positions available among 16 NHL quality forwards...

As those above mentioned it would suck to demote the rookies simply because they are waiver exempt when they are playing better than others. I think the UFAs like Suter, Erne, Sunqvist and Bert have got to be most likely to be moved. But chances are some of the guys coming back from injury will see conditioning stints to draw out the decision as long as possible.