I ... kind of thought my point was evident across about 48 posts on Perunovich this season, but I'll give give you a hint in the form of a question:
Given what we'd seen out of Perunovich coming into this season,
does anyone here think, coming into the 2023-24 season, Scott Perunovich had earned an NHL roster spot?
Not
welhewoudabenonwavers - that's
giving someone a roster spot for fear of
somwonmituvclaimdim, did he in all the professional games played up to September 15, 2023 play sufficiently well for what you'd expect out of a defenseman that he had
earned a spot on this NHL roster - and especially
earned a spot over other guys who were in the system and had played consistently the last few years, maybe even especially guys who'd played more than a few NHL games?
Because if he did - and that means a more stringent argument than
look at all those points he put up in Springfield - I'd like to hear how he
earned it, especially given what we've seen out of him defensively this season that's
exactly like what we saw out of him 2 years ago [and what I saw out of him at MN-Duluth, but I've noted he was able to get away with because NCAA talent <<<< NHL talent] and
especially since
3 1/2 months ago a much-respected poster here had a pretty brutal [but accurate] write-up of his defense and it's
not gotten any better.
Playoff games count so really all he needs is to play 23 more games this season (regular season + playoffs) to get to 80, but it's not like Perunovich has a history of injuries such that there's reason to think he'll miss ........ oh, yeah, right.
Well, it's not like he's injured right n- .... oh, yeah, right.
He may [probably will] qualify for Group 6, I won't be surprised if we sign him to another 1 year, 1-way for the league minimum again, because ...
potential.