Danny Taylor, Tyler Randell, Selleck, Moutry, Reinhart, Blunden, etc. (honestly, I can go on and on). Not sure any of these guys have done anything to "earn their ice-time", yet here we are.
Hopefully Hogberg and Gus get all the starts the rest of the way. Danny Taylor, take a seat.
I was talking about the NHL and I have no idea of what happens in the AHL in reality so hard to comment. Of course, I'd like prospects to be developed properly. Francis Perron is the example of a guy who hasn't been put in a position to succeed. I remember last season when he was finally put on a scoring line, he went close to PPG with 12 points in 15 games in his rookie season.This guy should be seen as a top-9 forward prospect but is currently an after thought for most Sens fasn.
Note : Thankfully, Taylor only had a 1 year deal. Maybe the plan was to develop Hogberg slowly (which seems to be a good idea based on results), but what about Driedger? Maybe they banked on being able to move Hammond without having him staying in Belleville.
Driedger is RFA at the end of the current season. Wondering what will happen with him. Hogberg and Gustavsson should be the 2 goalies in Belleville next season. Jut hire better vets at forward and defense.
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Speaking of that, here are the players I want to see back in Belleville next season :
Thomas Chabot, Colin White, Max McCormick (13th forward on a 1-way), Ben Harpur (#4-6 D-man on a 1-way) and possibly Nick Paul and Filip Chlapik should all be with the big club next year. I graduated them all to Ottawa.
Gabriel Gagne, Francis Perron, Ben Sexton, Jim O'Brien, Jack Rodewald, Christian Jaros, Maxime Lajoie, Andreas Englund, Ville Pokka, Jordan Murray, Marcus Hogberg and Chris Driedger (ECHL callup)
Logan Brown, Drake Batherson, Aaron Luchuk, Christian Wolanin (question mark though), Kelly Summers and Filip Gustavsson will be added to that group. I dunno if Markus Nurmi will come over though
Erik Burgdoerfer will be back too as he has an AHL contract.
Anyway, this is what the line-up could look like (or should IMO):
Perron-Brown-Gagne
Luchuk-Batherson-Sexton
xxxxxx-O'Brien-Rodewald
xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxx
xxxxxx
Lajoie-Jaros
Wolanin-Summers
Englund-Pokka
Murray-Burgdoerfer
Hogberg
Gustavsson
Driedger
Sign 1 very good AHL forward and things could look much better.