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Originally Posted by Iceman_2K
Do we need more wingers? Or can we develop players from the center forward position into wingers? If you look at the team roster that played the last game of the year, we had barely any defencemen left. I would think that from a planning point of view, we'd need to have more experienced defence men to keep up that depth that we had.
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I would hope Hodgson will be put at least on the 3rd line as a winger for Malholtra. However, I'm not just looking for scoring from a guy like Cole or Upshall. When you watch them play, night in and night out, these guys bring it on the ice with their physical play and they win board battles, something we lost in the SCF. That's something that you can't see on the stat sheet, because honestly, 50 points from Samuelsson looks great on paper, but I'd rather have someone that can hit and forecheck well. Also, I look at leadership qualities...both Cole and Upshall are great locker room guys and are vocal.
As far as d-men go, if we can lock up Bieksa and assuming Ballard sticks around, we need a 6th and 7th d-man. Maybe Salo takes a hometown discount for one more year and we sign another veteran looking to make a cup-run again.