The Note in MI
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In that article I posted in the Blues Discussion thread, Gruden said he had been playing like 27 minutes a night. No wonder he’s tired
I caught that. Perhaps a little exaggerated since nobody is tracking time, but he’s been run hard. What a season he’s had!
It was actually the Pats coach/GM that said they logged him at 27 min that game not Gruden so I believe it. He’s out there all the time.
I hope he was tired because outside of that Swift Current game he was a complete non factor all Memorial Cup. Just like the WJC and his games in London I’ve come away pretty underwhelmed. Still looks like a future 3C to me. Now might be a good time to trade him if he could be the centerpiece of a trade bringing in a substantial upgrade up front. Unless our strategy is to horde all of the 3Cs onto one team so nobody else can have one, we have to start clearing some of these guys. Thomas would have the most value as there’s still some hope he could be a top 6 center so a team might be willing to part with a pretty solid scorer in return.
What about the Acadie-Bathurst game? Or the first Pats game. Last night he had a few good plays but he didn’t have his best game. Still played well. Regina just shut him down. Steel wasn’t exactly stellar last night either.
Thomas is going to be at minimum a 2C