Conway is on an affiliate card
Yes but it becomes a full card when the player plays 10 games. Skaters only need to be in the lineup. I am not sure it is the same measuring stick for goalies. I think the goalie actually has to step on the ice and hit the net for the games to count for goalies but I am not entirely sure about that.
The issue is that we need bodies at defence and forward. If that is the case, then we need to consider releasing Mack so that we have enough skaters.
We are coming in to flu season which could kill us. We need this year to be a write-off and develop players. The issue is not the players but that Boyd did not draft players who could play in the OHL in the past few years. Tourigny had the same issue; hence, his son made the team.
For me the team that makes sense right now is
Pinelli Foster Stonehouse Gerrior
Ekberg Dever Korbler
Yanni Whitehead Horner
Barlas Amidovski Kelly
Houben
7 D 2 OA
Nelson
Conway
We are not going to get a player for Gerrior or Stonehouse, but we need to waive and trade one of them.
While I would like to keep MacK to play this year and ease Nelson and Conway, I think we need the 7 D at least especially as we do not know what we will get back in trades for Mews and Pinelli.
Horner
We don’t “need” players. Dressing a full 18 skater lineup is a want, not a need. OHL teams often dress under 18 skaters. People are acting like the World is coming to an end and we need to scramble to find players to plug holes on the 4th line that hardly ever plays anyway….
We currently have 20 skaters on roster (plus 2 goalies). Most teams carry 20 skaters. Some carry 21. We do have Perrier and Bonomo signed as affiliate players that can come up if all hell breaks loose. If all of Kelly, Korbler, and Pinelli are out of the lineup on Sunday, I could see Perrier getting a call up.
It was only two weeks ago when people were complaining about players getting scratched. Then they complained the ones in the lineup weren’t getting played enough. Now, we have a few players out and those players are getting played and apparently we should have more players in the lineup so those players don’t get played…. This team cannot win with you no matter what they do or how they distribute the ice time.
And, your answer is to release MacK so they can play Sirman for another week before they need to sit/release him to make room for Stonehouse? There is absolutely zero logic to what you are suggesting. It is awful roster management.
Perrier and Bonomo can play up to 9 games. Eshkawkogan will miss three-four games when he suits up for Team Canada Red at the U-17 Nov 3-9. Are we fortunate that Amidovski didn’t qualify for that tournament when all the other first rounders around him did? Hmmmm.
If MacK moves, we need to assign a card to another goalie. That reduces us to 6 remaining cards. When Stonehouse plays one game, that brings us down to five. If we were to add two temporary players to get over the hump, that brings us down to three. So, based on your proposal, we’d have three cards going into the deadline. That may be enough but if we have to move Mews and Pinelli, we’d be restricted to only adding three players in those trades. If Boyd wants to cute deeper, and also move Foster, we’d basically be restricted to one player back for each of those three. You need to consider the value of the limited number of player cards a team gets. They cannot be cavalier about it and go into panic mode.