JmanWingsFan
Your average Jman
Gratuitous usage of caps aside, why can't either Gus or Tatar have a top 6 role this season? Unless you want to pencil in one of Babs' favorites like Sammy/Cleary/Bert for 2nd line duty, there should be room for one of them to play with Flip and Franzen.
Why? Because Zetterberg, Datsyuk, Brunner, Franzen, Filppula, and YES Samuelsson.
Also, the Wings are going to need secondary scoring since they lack a true sniper on the roster (can't quite put Franzen in that category), so I think they need scoring from their 3rd line. Granted, that is tough to pull off with Helm centering that line, but I don't see why Gus couldn't play on the 2nd line and Tatar on the 3rd. Neither guy is really going to develop their games to the next level by playing against AHL competition at this point.
Secondary scoring, huh? Have you heard of Cleary, Bertuzzi, Helm, Miller, Abdelkader, and Tootoo? Don't give the "ZOMG, AHL=NO DEVELOPMENT" Oh for pete's sake, what's 48 games playing 6 minutes a night gonna do for them? Nothing.