Well, we can't pull Askarov whether he's playing well or not playing well. He's such a core part of our future hopes that we just need to keep rolling him out there and seeing what he can do, regardless.
It will be extra disappointing if the Ads bow out early, especially after we airlifted players out of there and left them shortstaffed, only to have those players really make no difference to the big team either, and for us to ultimately fail to gain the extra AHL playoff experience desired for our young'uns.
Oh well... if it goes that way. Still have games to play, and maybe they can pull it out. But it seems like we might be staring down the barrel of a bit of a loss on all fronts, and if Askarov shows he isn't quite ready to start stealing AHL playoff games yet, well, that's an important piece of data we wanted to collect also for our off-season planning.