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Thing with Janmark, Jarnkrok, etc, where do these guys make the team? We have guys like Darren Helm as fourth liners. Dallas, Nashville, etc lack depth and that's how these guys get those chances. Detroit was going fully towards a playoff run, which is why we got David Legwand. Nashville was tanking and could afford to put Calle Jarnkrok in game in and out. Contending teams thriving towards the playoffs (we are guys) really cannot afford to see what x player has if we currently have better chances with other players for example.
Calle Jarnkrok going to get exposed btw? He and Elias Lindholm were really supposed to be something great for Swedish hockey and Jarnkrok looks like a third line C and Lindholm's development has kinda looked like a 2C.
Here's a crazy idea...
Trade guys like Helm just prior to UFA status for a 3rd round picks or whatever, then bring up the guys the ELC guys. There is no room for locking down all your bottom 6 guys in the modern NHL (Helm, Abdelkader, Glendening). I know the Wings were desperately trying to make the playoffs at that point (and Helm was the issue when they got Legwand), but that's not using the laws of probability in terms of building a champion.