It's kind of depressing, but I think we are playing about as well as they can. Dumba could be playing better, but Brodin and Soucy have exceeded expectations. Suter, Spurgeon, and Hunt have all been about as good as you can expect.
Staal, Koivu, Parise, Zuccarello, Zucker, Hartman, Dubnyk, Stalock, Foligno....they are playing at about the level you'd expect (injuries aside, and anyway, injuries are normal).
I don't see Kunin having any great upside, nor JEE. Like them both, especially JEE, but...I would be thrilled if they could be 2nd liners. I just don't see the ability to command the game when the puck is on their sticks.
Fiala and Greenway are about the only guys I see that have significant upside. I think Greenway needs at least one more summer of training to get better control of his body. He loses his balance, and pucks, way too much, but when all his parts are working right he can be a force. Fiala needs to be more consistent, and understand when not to do a high risk play. If he can do that, hopefully he will earn prime offensive TOI, get more efficient, and actually produce points commensurate with his skill level(60 pts.?).
Rask is a throwaway. Donato is a tad better.
No one in Iowa is coming to save us...maybe Khakonen can provide slightly better goaltending? I didn't see brilliance from him.
Ugh.
