Tyler Motte Injury (confirmed with link)

[heyfolks]

Tyler Motte Injury: Missing start of road trip | RotoWire

Motte (upper body) won't travel with the Red Wings for the start of their upcoming four-game road trip, which begins Thursday versus the Panthers, per C...

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Motte is not starting out the trip with the team. While the article says he MIGHT join the team on this 4 game trip, is this the opportunity give Elmer a look?

I would leave Motte home, even IR him and give Soderblom a very tough 4 game road trip look. (Panthers, Bolts, Stars, Flyers).

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[SirloinUB]

Somewhat tangent but your comment about giving Soderblom a look resonates with me:

I really don't like how this team is so opposed to giving its young players some cups of coffee. To me it is crazy that the Red Wings were in a spot were AlJo had run out of waiver exemption status and hadn't seen a single game. This hurts development and creates situations where we/the team doesn't really know what they have yet.

I can buy into not giving the kids a full time roster spot but Yzerman and Co. need to do a better job of getting these kids some games. Emphasis on some. They don't need to go crazy but getting these 21-22 year olds some exposure will help their development and help with decision making.

 

[RED WINGS STOMP]

Depends on what they plan to do with Fischer. If he is getting Motte's spot and the call up is going to sit the box, call up Watson for that.

I would like to see Elmer get some run here, but he is quite the different type of player than Motte is, may not be what they are looking for.

 

[Henkka]

It's Fischer 100% for Motte.

McLellan is just learning his players. He did came from scratch for this team. Please listen what the people are saying and stop the damn nonsense.

 

[sepster]

Who would be best at getting pucks deflected off them and into their own net? Because that's what Motte's role was.