I liked Koli's game tonight, even though he was 13% in faceoffs. If Reaves and Carrier had a baby it'd be him.
Hague had a quiet night, which is OK for his first game in a while I suppose. Who would have thought it would be Whitecloud showing the offensive instincts.
Gotta shake up the forward lines though.
Patches Karlsson Stone
Tuch Glass Smith
Marchessault Stephenson Roy
It's nice to see most of the future defense core all at once though
Hague Theodore
Whitecloud Petro
____ Coghlan
At least that won't be a problem. Every game they don't get Glass established as a PP fixture we inch closer to the inevitable PLD overpayment + cap dump trade to complete the team.
Why have two lefties and two righties on separate pairs?
Seeing the Cole for Pateryn trade, I have to think we aren't interested in moving a defenseman to solve our cap problems. There seems to be trades they could make but don't want to. Don't know that we have a forward we would still want to trade (Pacioretty not happening unless they try something big like Dubois but probably doesn't work anyway) so are dumb lineups based on cap garbage the norm this season?
Certainly we could have offered Martinez for Pateryn and Minnesota would have accepted and we could just call up Holden and put Pateryn on the taxi squad.
Even if they didnt want to reduce the team on the ice, then they could have probably even traded Holden for nothing (who can't play at all anyway until our cap gets sorted) and Minnesota probably accepts that as it adds only a small amount to their cap and Holden is probably better than Cole right now based on their last season. Even could spin it as giving Holden an opportunity to actually play.