Never said that, just said those would be the prudent moves to make for a playoff run. They just made one in the Kampfer deal.
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Never said that, just said those would be the prudent moves to make for a playoff run. They just made one in the Kampfer deal.
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The bottom line is, there is no reason why AC shouldn't have gotten a game or games more recently.
Especially with all the B2Bs.
Especially with all the B2Bs.
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He doesn't have to be, I'd take a one legged Duncan Keith before most of our RD.
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No one is saying that. Duncan Keith without arms is better than Girardi
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Honestly outside of mcd..has any defenseman been even consistently average? Skjei? I guess?
Staal been hovering between below average and dreadful..girardi somewhere between a passable number 7 and the worst defenseman in all the hockey leagues that have the letters "hl" in them...Klein's been really really bad all season long..Holden's probably been the brightest one but I'm still that's only because the rest of them are just so bad that the shiny turd looks good..but hes still a turd..ya know?
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At least one poster has posed the question as to whether Keith is better than Clen, which is crazy enough as is.
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I took that more of a reference to the "he's not that good" part of the quote.
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I think it's time to put Clendo in, even if only for a game or two in order to send a message to our vets. Guys like Klein and Girardi are in there over Clendo because they are supposed to be stronger and more responsible in their own zone. Yet, they're missing assignments. May as well put in a guy who can miss the same assignments (lol), but at least move the puck up the ice...something we haven't been doing very well from our backend lately. Maybe subbing in Clendo for Klein will give Klein the kick in the ass he seems to need. That missed assignment in front of the net on the first goal last night was awful.
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I agree. Our best option to play with Mcdonagh imo. He isnt very good but he doesnt anchor Mcdonagh the way Girardi does.
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Clendening needs to play with Staal, they should be glues together. Staal looked great with him, not so great with anyone else.
I think its time to trade Miller/Kreider/Skjei for a guy like Hamilton/Trouba. It would suck to trade any of them but something gotta give to get a young RHD and only way to do that is to trade one of our young forwards.
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Deja Vu all over again.This could be any McIlrath thread from last year.
Remember Vigno saying "They'd give Boyler a rest with all the B2B's coming up"?
Yeah.How'd that work out? Ran "Boyler" into the ground along with broken kneecap,concussed Dan Girardi.
McIlrath is gone, and Vigno has banished another young D man to the pressbox while insisting on riding declining veterans into the ground.
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Holden has been pretty solid for a while now and I like Skjei. Girardi, Klein and Staal could be sat now and again. But I don't buy that Clendening is even close to Duncan Keith. He's been banging around the AHL and NHL for a while now in numerous organizations. He has strengths but he also has some weaknesses.
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Yet Girardi gets a regular pass for his "weaknesses"? I'm all for not playing Clendening if it's not going to result in passable play, but for whatever defensive deficiencies Adam shows, he makes up for it with his puck movement and offensive contributions.
Girardi has those same weaknesses with ZERO offensive contributions--I can't see why the coach sees every RHD we have (sans Holden, he's been fine) as a better solution than a guy who at the very least has some sort of offensive upside to mitigate his lack of defensive game.
And for gods sakes, we aren't talking about Hal Gill or Brooks Orpik here--we are talking about Clendening playing over one of Girardi or Klein, both who have been playing like #5 dmen... really? You can't bear to try something different, coach?
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