00:00So here are some of the names that have been on the third and fourth line
00:02and what they've done.
00:03Alex Steeves.
00:04Yeah.
00:05Got back into the lineup the other day, made no difference.
00:08One goal on his last 21.
00:10I think they gave him a random extension during the season, too.
00:12Yeah, it makes sense.
00:13That sounds like them.
00:14Keep Steeves around.
00:14Yeah, a hard cap league.
00:16People are worried about the cap in three years
00:17with what you're giving to James Higgins.
00:19But sure, let's just throw money at something called Alex Steeves.
00:23Michael Essamont, zero goals in his last nine.
00:26Sean Corrales, this fourth-line player.
00:2821-game goal-scoring drought.
00:31Kastelik, 22 straight without scoring.
00:33Tanner Janot, hard down low.
00:35Yeah, he is.
00:36No goals in his last 24.
00:38Lucas Reichel, who they got at the trade deadline.
00:40Scored in his first game with the Bees.
00:42That was nice back on March 19th.
00:43That was a good spark.
00:44Has not scored in eight straight.
00:47So, like, what are we talking about?
00:48He can't play for one of those guys?
00:50He's not ready.
00:52He's not ready.
00:53He can't contribute.
00:54He's not going to be, like, some savior for the team.
00:57I don't need him to be a savior.
00:58Can he score once at some point when he comes up here?
01:01None of these other guys do in your bottom six.
01:04None of them do.
01:05Zero.
01:06Hardly any production out of those guys in the last 20-plus games.
01:09Yeah.
01:10So get him in there, and maybe he helps in your bottom six.
01:12And I think he could definitely help on the power play, which is also strong.
01:15That's why I never really understood the argument to not bring him up and not see it.
01:19And I guess there were some that were really worried about the future contracts, I guess.
01:23But if you're looking at the current roster and you're trying to maximize it and see if
01:26they can go on a little bit of a surprise run in the playoffs, it's not like the roster
01:32is loaded and there's no place for him to crack into it.
01:35There's not even one guy as an op.
01:37You just named several guys that he could step in and take their spot.
01:42Doesn't even have to be the same guy for all three games.
01:44Doesn't have to be the same guy for all the playoff runs.
01:45You can mix and match if you really want to, or maybe you stumble upon a couple of scoring
01:51lines that sort of help the team take some of the pressure off the two or three guys that
01:56were scoring all the goals over the last couple of months.
01:58So to me, it was a no-brainer.
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