GDT: Tampa Bay Lightning vs Colorado Eagles | 7pm | Holy Crap we’re injured

[Pokecheque]

Couldn’t we call up MacDonald and have him play forward? He’s done it before with the Avs. Not that it would make a difference but you know….

I think the concern there is that they'd have to waive him again to send him back down.

 

[henchman21]

I think the concern there is that they'd have to waive him again to send him back down.

He'd have to play 10 games or be on the roster 30 days to go back on waivers.

 

[McMetal]

Hmm? Do you think that Drouin is there because of pro scouting?

I think you're crazy if you don't think the pro scouts signed off on him.

Like I said, pro scouting is a judgement call profession just like amateur scouting. Nobody is going to nail it every time. I can forgive a miss or two.

 

[Pokecheque]

He'd have to play 10 games or be on the roster 30 days to go back on waivers.

Really? I thought that clock reset after 30 days no matter where he was.

 

[henchman21]

Really? I thought that clock reset after 30 days no matter where he was.

Nope has to be 10 games or 30 days with the NHL club.

 

[chet1926]

Steinburg it was a textbook charge, jumped into it to hit Cernak high, and the head was the primary point of contract. That's about as cut and dry as you can get. I don't scream for suspensions much, but that is one that clearly deserves a game or two.

Lol, that's a terrible assessment. The head hit the board as a result of whiplash. Steinburg himself didn't make forceful contact to the head. The majority of the contact was to the body. He never gets his elbows or anything remotely to the head area.

If this is forceful contact to the head then where's the f***ing consistency? Over the last 3 sessions I've seen at least 10 Avs players take direct shots to the head without a peep from the league. It's always some excuse as to why that isn't a suspension.

Most notably the headshot 29 took from Trouba few years back. Direct hit to the head on 29, oh he skated into it, doesn't count, that's BS. But Steinburg who didn't make any direct head contact, they only thing he is guilty of is leaving his feet, is going to get a suspension. That's trash. Flying elbows to the head totally fine, launching your butt into someone's torso suspension. The DoPS is a joke.

 

[Spilot23]

Because the Colorado Eagles - with Nate and Cale! - couldn't beat the Tampa Bay Lightning?

I like that you're putting Rantanen in the Colorado Eagles group

 

[henchman21]

Lol, that's a terrible assessment. The head hit the board as a result of whiplash. Steinburg himself didn't make forceful contact to the head. The majority of the contact was to the body. He never gets his elbows or anything remotely to the head area.

If this is forceful contact to the head then where's the f***ing consistency? Over the last 3 sessions I've seen at least 10 Avs players take direct shots to the head without a peep from the league. It's always some excuse as to why that isn't a suspension.

Most notably the headshot 29 took from Trouba few years back. Direct hit to the head on 29, oh he skated into it, doesn't count, that's BS. But Steinburg who didn't make any direct head contact, they only thing he is guilty of is leaving his feet, is going to get a suspension. That's trash. Flying elbows to the head totally fine, launching your butt into someone's torso suspension. The DoPS is a joke.

Steinburg's shoulder directly hits Cernak's head. Because Steinburg jumped into the hit, the head became the primary and intial point of contact too. In the NHL, a hit to the head is not illegal if it is not the primary point of contact. In this case, the shoulder hits Cernak's head as the primary point of contact and the only reason that contact happens is because Steinburg jumped. This isn't a 5 game sort of thing, but clearly 5 and a game was super easy and supplemental is clear too. It should be a game or two.

If Steinburg doesn't jump, the hit is shoulder to chest and at very worst a 2 minute charge... though it probably wouldn't have been called.

 

[Balthazar]

I think you're crazy if you don't think the pro scouts signed off on him.

Like I said, pro scouting is a judgement call profession just like amateur scouting. Nobody is going to nail it every time. I can forgive a miss or two.

Even your grandma would have said yes if Mack would have asked to have his buddy on the team for 1 year league minimum. No pro scouting opinion needed there.

 

[SirLoinOfCloth]

And there lies the problem: Do you believe that this team will ever be healthy enough to compete for the brig price again....?

This is turning into another season of one man in, one man out........ And Bednar playing our big guns into the ground just to make the playoffs (and yeah, i do think this team with one injury after another is not a lock for the big dance).

Do I think we will ever be fully healthy? I don't know. I don't have a crystal ball.

But what is unusual is to have so many players who play the same position or similar type of game as each other being out.

Aside from Rants we basically have no top 9 wingers right now. And rants is rants. Usually the injuries are spread out across different disciplines more so they are easier to cover up

 

[Arto Kilponen]

Do I think we will ever be fully healthy? I don't know. I don't have a crystal ball.

But what is unusual is to have so many players who play the same position or similar type of game as each other being out.

Aside from Rants we basically have no top 9 wingers right now. And rants is rants. Usually the injuries are spread out across different disciplines more so they are easier to cover up

The good thing here is wingers are the easiest one to cover up. First of all there more wingers than anything in a roster and secondarily converting a player to winger is the easiest convert.

But this doesn't make the situation all that easy anyway.