stingwagoner
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- Dec 31, 2023
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Thoughts on last night......
Surzycia was very good. His poise and calmness really helped settle down the chaos in the defensive end at times. He looked sharp from the get go and never looked back. Huge game for him. When he plays like that, it gives this team so much more confidence in front of him.
Edwards could have 12 goals already lol. The amount of times that guy finds himself in the literal "perfect" spot is insane to me. He is the definition of having a "nose for the net". It's not by chance either, he's such a smart player and knows how to find the puck and open ice for himself.
While I agree having your top line as 12/11/24 seems a bit ridiculous, it's certainly helped reign in two consecutive wins. Might not look pretty, but it's working. I'm also fully aware that having someone like 24 on your first line is a complete waste of core development minutes when there are guys like 23,17,81,19 and 18 who are your teams future and should be developing/learning along side a stable vet like 12.
I don't know the answers to the line combs but I do know Karimov on line 4 is not ok. Letang playing with fire and risking losing someone of Karimovs potential would be a pretty big piss off. Gotta let guys like him have a bit of a longer leash with their creativity, but we all know how structured Letang like things. I'm sure the cultural difference is an issue as well. Karimov comes from hard-nosed Russia and was developed under what I'd assume would be some rough and tough coaches. Pretty big change coming over here to Letang who cares more about the type of person you are than hockey player.
People seem to forget this team is in a rebuild. You're going to see a mix of rookies/vets on PP's, PK's and throughout all 4 lines. The purpose of a rebuild is to have an abundance of ice time available to your young players so they can develop...in ALL on ice situations. What good is it to have Wainwright and Doucette on PP1 this year? You'd rather have them on a PP chewing up all that ice time on top of their top 6 mins when they won't even be apart of this team when we plan to contend? stingwagoner you mentioned about seeing the bigger picture.....how about that one? Giving PP time to two guys who wont be here next year seems counter productive to the development of our core young players that will be instrumental in the success of this team going forward beyond this REBUILD season. That being said, I much rather have 12 or 25 on PP1 over 11. I would also love if London came knocking on the door for 12 (they won't). Why wouldn't we want some assets in return to help build towards the next few years when we plan to contend? 25/11 can be on the table as well and should be if there is interest form other teams. Comparing Wainwright to Kyrou is crazy to me but you do you!
17/81 also deserve some high praise. It's not like they demanded these minutes they are playing. They play what they're told. For two 16 yr olds to step into this league and handle the minutes they've played already as well as produced, it's extremely impressive and is certainly being overlooked by some on here. You may hate it now, but you'll love it in a year or two when they are leagues above others in their age group....bigger picture right? 23/18 will get going in no time, I have no concerns about that.
Only 9 games into the season folks. Discuss away but it's certainly not the time to being sounding any alarms yet.
Corrections:
12 is only 19, has this year and next year still when sting will start competing.
25 /11 done after this year.
What was implied was 12 reminds me of kyrou never compared to him. Big difference.