aragorn
Do The Right Thing
- Aug 8, 2004
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If prince goes on waivers and gets claimed it means whoever is in Ottawa beat him out or they just had too many 1 way contracts. If Buffalo claims him because they think he's a better player then the guy they subsequently put on waivers, why would the Sens claim an inferior player to the one they lost and be forced to play him in the NHL? They would just keep prince and place somebody else on waivers in that scenario. And if they had no room for him because of contracts how would they have room for the inferior player from Buffalo? In other words, the answer to your other question is no.
Prince plays left wing, Buffalo may place a centre or RW or a defencemen who is not waiver exempt on waivers because they don`t have roster room before they send him to Rochester. They may not have anyone we want either. If it`s not Buffalo Ottawa could go looking around the league to see if they can replace Prince with someone else but I think you are right in that it`s likely not going to happen. While I think Prince will be placed on waivers I don`t think anyone will pick him up off of waivers at that time just after training camp.
While we worry a great deal about our own players every team has good players who may be NHL ready & they simply don`t have room for them on the roster who are not waiver exempt & have to place them on waivers to send them to their farm team after training camp. This happens every yr & it happened when Ottawa placed Hoffman on waivers to send him to Bingo two yrs ago, it`s pretty rare that players are taken off the waiver wire at the beginning of the yr but it`s possible. There are only 23 spots, if every one stays healthy & injuries do sometimes help to keep more players on the roster. It should be interesting to see who stays & who does not this yr.