Jeff Petry healthy scratched 2 games after trade to Detroit

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Wow that's a scorching hot take

That’s why he was traded, no regrets here.

 

[WaW]

This whole thread should be nominated for the overreaction of the year award.

 

[biturbo19]

I caught flak for suggesting that it was a bit weird for Detroit to be going into the season basically guaranteed to be parking effectively $3M+ in the press box on any given night when healthy.

I didn't think Petry would be the guy sitting out, but this was always the inevitability. Someone fairly expensive has to sit out. That's just the reality of the way the number of bodies works there.


It's not really the end of the world. Teams are rarely ever fully healthy all year. Injuries will happen and they'll make use of all the guys they've accumulated. It's also not necessarily a bad thing, when some of these guys are quite a bit older and could likely use a few odd rest days and to manage their workload and keep them a little bit more fresh.


But it's definitely an unusual, unconventional, somewhat inefficient seeming cap allocation strategy. But it's also clearly just a thing that sort of fell into their lap with Petry after they'd already mostly sorted their defence previously. You don't turn down a $2.4M Top-4 RHD acquired for basically spare parts. Just made for a crowded situation on their blueline, especially with Edvinsson pressing. It'll all work itself out in time though. Better problem to have, than to not have enough NHL caliber defencemen (as some teams are clearly dealing with).

 

[Monsieur Miz]

This whole thread should be nominated for the overreaction of the year award.

Nah, the Ovechkin thread is better.

 

[Pavels Dog]

But it's definitely an unusual, unconventional, somewhat inefficient seeming cap allocation strategy.

I mean, it's the opposite of ineffecient. Ineffecient is believing you need the cheapest possible 6-7D even though you have lots of cap space. Ineffecient is not using your cap space. Yeah, ideally they could spend 7 million on a legit top 4D instead of 2 mil on a #6D, but that doesn't make it ineffecient when the former option isn't even available.

 

[Debrincat93]

While he's not been amazing, this is a 100% nothing burger. we have Petry, Maatta, Holl to rotate in.

move along.

 

[Dotter]

I mean, it's the opposite of ineffecient. Ineffecient is believing you need the cheapest possible 6-7D even though you have lots of cap space. Ineffecient is not using your cap space. Yeah, ideally they could spend 7 million on a legit top 4D instead of 2 mil on a #6D, but that doesn't make it ineffecient when the former option isn't even available.

Plus DRWs already have a young 6'6" stud top 4 guy marinating in AHL right now.

Yzerman is efficiently using his capspace to stockpile Trade Deadline guys now instead of waiting til TDL. All he needs to do is rotate guys until then. It's genius, actually.

 

[LarKing]

I'll take Karlsson over Petry any day of the week and I liked Petry when he was a Penguin. He was decent here.

Wow don't go on too huge of a ledge with such a crazy take

 

[Regal]

been bottom pairing guy for last two seasons .....now he is a 7 or 8 depth injury filler

Naw. He was still a top 4 his last year in Montreal and a 4/5 last year.