Hey, Regulate, that's excellent that you were able to talk to the players. Cool to hear what they have to say. Shame that Sharpie can't stick here in Ontario yet because of our depth on D. I'd love to have Cernak stick, too, but the numbers... Big props to Cernak for doing his best to speak English at the draft. He really earned my respect for doing that. Watson, I feel for. After Kozun and Weal, I don't have much hope for the NHL future for smaller players, but I like the kid. These injuries have held Leslie back and there's so much depth on D. Looking forward to seeing what LaDue will do.
As for the forwards, I'm not familiar with a lot of them now that we have so many new guys. I'm just not excited about our offense on the Reign this year. There Backman, Brodzinski...Mersch is a projected call-up later this year and Kempe still has to take the next step so, where's the scoring going to come from? Dowd has graduated. Wait, forgot about Amadio. But still, we're not loaded with offensive talent.
Guess we got spoiled in past years with Pearson-Vey-Toffoli, Kozun, Weal, O'Neill, O'Brien, Mersch and Dowd.
