molon labe
Registered User
The whole Rakell thing is tired at this point. Another guy you can toss on the "came in hot went out ice cold" pile. It's a large pile at this point. Dude has 5 goals in 31 games stapled to the top six (lately Crosby) and often the top powerplay. Jeff flippin' Carter has five goals. At some point you can't just keep hanging your hat on the "little things" a 5M dollar supposed top six player does when your team is a bunch of ham-fisted goobers and is at the bottom of the league in finishing two years running.
Smith and Rakell make as much as a LEGITIMATE impact winger + a sidecar player.
I don't know why the solution to giving up all our 'catalyst' guys was to target mids. What stupid decisions over and over and over this freaking org continues to make. Those guys are literal replacement level players at this point.
I'd actually wager money that Puustinen would score more if stapled to Crosby for the remaining games than either of those 2 could over 82.