He's got another year at $2mil
Fully agree accept with the resign. If it were a veteran minimum 1 yr deal, I would be with you. Otherwise it would be better to go in a new direction with the kids having more opportunity. Next year Lindholm and Lohrei are the expected top 2 LD and the 3rd LD should be paid like a bottom pair defender. Bring in a veteran on the cheap in the offseason if the kids don't seem ready for 3rd line minutes, but I like what I have seen in callups so far this year and I believe in the system.
I don't see it that way but its just my opinion, right or wrong. The Bruins being healthy and all. I role with Lindholm/McAvoy and Carlo/Lohrei as my top 4. Therefore he's a top 4 defenseman on the Bruins. Obviously if the bruins go out and acquire a Hanafin, Lohriei is the odd man out for this year, and he quickly becomes a future top 4, as a Bruin.
He had a good game last night even at -1 which was not his fault I might add.What do the Bruins have to lose by letting him play? He is not learning anything else at Providence that he cannot learn better from guys around him here.He can run a pp to make no mistake about that .
It's not so much his size maybe it's the people who say he's good in the play-offs maybe? I don't know, he's fine, I have no issues with them trying to keep him with Mac in the play-offs for once, the last two seasons certainly haven't worked with burying him in the lineup
Preds are making a run, sucker them into Jake for a 1 and Cole SmithJake to play for Cassidy again?
I don't care if you're Nathan Gerbe if you can produce offensively. Grzelcyk can't. He's scared to get hit and frankly, just isn't a guy you want to go to war with in the post season.
Case Closed!
Ain't his size, it's his lack of physical play, how easily he gets pushed off pucks, bad coverage, lack of offense and no willingness to engage. I don't care if you are 5'6 if you hit, play tough and protect your goalie. Grizz does none of those things. He is a waste of 3.75M in cap space and hopefully his tenure here will soon be over, replaced by a Middleton, Lauzon or Seeler.
When you are a player his size & you have carved out what he has as an NHL player you have to respect that .This is the hardest league in the world to play in.Yea we all want a bit more nasty with size on that back end but give the man a break here that's a bit harsh.
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Im not saying he's bad or terrible at hockey, obviously he has good to great qualities, I mean he's an NHLer for reason, but he has a major deficiency in his game and that's not being able to step up and be counted on in a positive way at the most important time of the season.
There was a time where he was one of the best skaters out there. His ability to turn on a dime was ridiculous and it aided him in transition which is where he excelled.
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