We’ve seen quite a few lower body injuries blocking shots. I don’t want our top 6 guys being utilized heavily in that manner.
If you want to sneak one of the top 6 guys out to cheat a little on the pk and look to turn some offense the other way fine but I don’t like it. None of the 3 mentioned are burners with real breakaway speed.
Depends what you call depth. You want two scoring lines, is Boldy gonna be another Fiala and we hope people show up for him?? I never said zucc is the problem, his age is as I’m looking past this one year. I disagree completely that they are contenders. Just because the west is a bit weaker this year doesn’t make them contenders. Hawks and jets are goofy. Blues are probably still gonna walk all over us. Dallas is 50/50. Nashville might be better than us. Kings got better, oilers could of gotten better, flames upgrade??? Ducks could make noise this season. I’m not gonna say we are a top 5 team in the west so easily. I don’t trust MAF to carry us.
unfortunately, we are not going to suck, unless Kap, Brodin, JEE, and Spurgeon are injured, and Dumba traded. We will be a vg regular season team.
Right now we can only add a $4MM caliber player, with cap accrual though we can wait 20 games and have room to add an actual difference maker if needed. We can theoretically be in the running for a guy like Kane this season if we continue to hold space. Though I also think we will want the room in case of goalie injury.
good to hear, The few highlights i saw didnt really feature him vs the blues so i suppose that is a good thing not being scored on.
I think they like him for his size, ability to play C/RH, and his experience. He's not tough, persay, but is big and gritty enough to at least not be pushed around. Our bottom six is pretty small and/or soft, so they mgiht be looking to him as a call up whereas they might've called up Cramarossa/Rau in the past.
Didn't watch the last game, but he had a lot of shots and hits. I agree that this is the year for him to carve out a spot, but he couldn't do it. He's got decent size, strength, and speed, and a scoring touch down in the AHL, at least.
I think they want to have Sustr's size in our otherwise very small D lineup. Mermis looks like an AHL'er, frankly. I can see Shaw getting a call up, but how many 5'8" guys are we going to ice?
I figured Sustr and Fogarty are still on the roster for their size, as to how many short guys i cant answer. if they were all faster i dont think it would matter however they are not so your guess is possibly better than mine. Id assume we have Sustr and Fogarty as the extras, mermis shaw back to iowa. petan i am unsure of depending on how they want to construct the lines with greenways injury.
