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He does a decent job to replace JDLR in the lineup
I too do not understand why DLR is not our fourth line center?
Dwight King, Byron Froese, Logan Shaw, now Michael Chaput.. Claude always needs one of his untalented AHL caliber players in the lineup.
Given we lack high end talent I'd rather just play Peca who can at least chip in offensively instead of a guy who can't do anything other than being above average at faceoffs.
He's been pretty awful lately, there's a reason he's a good AHL player... he spends a lot of time there.
That's it, no more shampoo for me. Baking soda from now on.
Michael "Chaput quoi faire avec la puck"
I would rather have DLR /cry
would rather have DLR. Younger, bigger, faster, better PKer, is out producing him on a worse team although in more games as their ppg is about the same. DLR has 2 goals to Chaput's 0.
I too do not understand why DLR is not our fourth line center?
I would think it's time to send him back to Laval, and bring up Big Mac. The last few games, Chaput has been nothing short of awful and has directly caused two goals scored on the team...he seemed ok at the onset, but has been pretty bad recently.
I'm pretty sure DLR is not playing center for the Wings. Perhaps he will not be an NHL center, which makes me miss him much less.
As for Chaput, definitely a bad mixup between he and Reilly last game. I like what Chaput brings and with Byron out maybe not the time to sit Chaput, but maybe let Peca have another go? I wouldn't send Chaput down at this point.
McCarron's been injured for going on 3 weeks, really hope they don't call him up just yet, he was really starting to heat up before the injury and was on a nice roll. Really want to see the Habs stop doing this when they call up a struggling prospect just as he's starting to put things together. Really want to see them start giving these kids more time to build off and see what happens. That said there's not much down in Laval that can help the Habs.
Also did not realize Big Mac was recently injured. They have been waaaayyyyyyy to patient with Chaput. Put Peca back in there, he can create some speed and some chances...I wasn't aware of McCarron's injury status, so yes it absolutely makes sense to let him be.
What I'm wondering is why Chaput is still with the club. I understand that he impressed somewhat in the pre-season and then apparently did enough to earn a call-up, but I don't see any consistency or improvement in his play. Yes, he's a 4th liner however, he should at least be in damage-control if he's not going to produce offensively. Instead of that, we've seen several untimely brain cramps and foul-ups in the Habs's zone. Why are the Habs so patient with him?
DLR is likely more of a winger that can play that 4th line center role. I would certainly take him over Chaput, since he's 23 and has put up 19 pts in 91 games since he stopped getting jerked around in and out of the lineup. Now he's likely never going to bring much in the way of offense, but to me if he can chip in 10, 12, 15 pts a year on the 4th line, he brings size, speed, skating, solid defensive play, PK, can play any forward position. Just that you don't have him out there expecting a 30 pt player.
In 26 games Chaput has yet to score a goal, just 4 pts overall. DLR has as many points in 36 games on a worse team then Chaput/DLO have in a combined 60 games while being 3 years younger and in his first full season.
How much longer, Michael Chaput? I can't believe this guy is still with the club.
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I prefer Chaput to DLR. His advanced stats were pretty good last I checked. Plus he's an actual center.
But regardless of preference, it's not a big concern either way.
I'm pretty sure DLR is not playing center for the Wings. Perhaps he will not be an NHL center, which makes me miss him much less.
As for Chaput, definitely a bad mixup between he and Reilly last game. I like what Chaput brings and with Byron out maybe not the time to sit Chaput, but maybe let Peca have another go? I wouldn't send Chaput down at this point.
There's not a single team in the league that doesn't do that. And with good reason. There are lots of ways of acquiring players. You are fetishizing the draft. Why refuse to play better players simply because you didn't draft them? Makes no sense, which is why no NHL team does it. Every year you are proven wrong by the team that wins the Cup.It is imo. As long as this team will favor scrubs from other teams instead of his own players this team will go nowhere,. You can quote me in 10 years i'll be proven right yet again. been saying this for over 20 years now been right all the time and will continue to be right.
We laughed about Patch and DD chemistry but chemistry is important and you can't have chemistry if you change your players as often as you change your underwears.
DLR is absolutely capable of playing centre in a bottom six role. Plekanec and Peca just made him a non factor and now that Pleks has quit and Peca has proven to be nothing but a useless speedster we could really use DLR. Then again, we're talking about 4th liners here so it's not a major problem or anything.