Agree. I missed the first but loved what I saw from the new guys. Garland, Dickinson and Burroughs all gave me moments where I thought “who was that” for positive reasons.
I realize that, as usual, I have rare/bad taste in players I cheer for, but I really wanted Big Mac to do well here and had high hopes for him. Hopefully he clears and puts in the work in the AHL to get back up and play better than he has.
I like how quickly folks forget that the reason Juolevi didn’t pan out had a lot to do with serious injuries that derailed his development. It is easy to discount hat and say it was a bad pick with the advantage of hindsight.
Was hoping he could get back on track but there weren’t a lot of options left other than to trade him. He would not have cleared waivers.
Got some projects in return of roughly equivalent value. Happy enough with that.
Honestly I feel like they may know they have some players coming back in time for the season and are just plugging holes. Some of these guys are not going to stick but they are doing right by them by giving them some games. I would guess that Boeser and Motte will be back for game 1.
Starting to feel like it is a little sus that Rathbone is playing every game and getting so many opportunities.
Conspiracy theory time: they are padding his minutes to up his value to trade him for a RD defensive defenceman. CDC will explode!
It is disappointing for sure but we do (myself included) tend to overvalue our own prospects (see Kole Lind) and I will say that I am very happy to finally be a team having to shed good players instead of claiming everyone we can off the garbage wire.
This one definitely hurts. Damn.
I do feel like people who feel they know better than the professional coaches who spend every day with these players are mistaking opinion for expertise, but we took a risk here and lost.
Thanks for doing that. There is something deeply and oddly satisfying of seeing names get crossed off the list.
There are quite a few on there that seem like obvious choices to get sent down. Does anyone know the reason for keeping they might want to keep members of the AHL crew up for a bit longer?