bleedgreen
Registered User
We’ve seen us fill in the roster more than we even wanted with role players late in the off season, often putting guys in front of prospects we were hoping got more of a chance. Rod often seems to make the lineup during the summer and tends to have the lineup he’s prefer set from the beginning of camp. It’s really hard to see him giving Morrow one of those spots without being told he has to. Probably a big part of whether or not the kid signs with us, he might want some sort of promise. Morrow thinks his calling card to the NHL (he’s said this) is his power play game. Remember when Dougie showed up after scoring 17 goals the year before and Rod wouldn’t put him on the top pp….only the second pp with Slavin babysitting? Dougie with his warts is still a top pair defenseman and he had to earn it with Rod. Morrow is going to walk in and get pp time? It’s really hard to see. You can say Rod has softened a bit as he made attempts to get Tony in despite his struggles, and maybe he has but this is still quite a stretch.I got downvoted to hell on the canes subreddit for saying I didn’t see any way we would guarantee Morrow a spot in the canes top 6. People just kept telling me about all the open spots we’ll have available next year and how he worked so hard on his defensive game this year
Like, are we talking about the same coach Rod? He’s going to regularly ice a rookie defenseman with a suspect defensive game? Nah, not happening.
We could go all offseason inking Morrow into the lineup only to have us sign an Edmunson type to the last spot and make Morrow number 7. This would not be surprising behavior.
