Losing Spurgeon for any significant amount of time would throw a huge wrinkle into this season's start. I personally think the team's RD depth is far more of a concern than the center depth that the media seems to pin as our major issue. Addison is not top 4 capable in my eyes, Nick Foligno clowned on him tonight, actually talented players eat him alive in the D zone, and his 5v5 play is entirely mediocre. If he isn't doing set passing plays, he seems to be very lost at actually reading the ice.
Faber was really good, but even he had a rookie mistake turn into a GA. I did like how he was jumping into the play, I don't see why everyone says his offensive potential is so low. He seems to be quite involved in the offensive zone and off the rush, he gets the puck to the net quickly, and makes excellent reads in the neutral zone for turnover offense. Goligoski put up 40 points on this team doing worse versions of all those things.
Speaking of... I respect Goligoski like crazy, I wish we would have had him earlier in his career, but he is past the point of being an effective regular. Not that Merrill is much better, and this would mean more play time for him too.
Hunt injured, Spacek too green, SJo was flat out bad in camp, ROR wasn't any better than SJo, which leaves Mermis as the obvious internal option. Meh IMO.
I bet the Wild scouts are going to be highly interested in the Waiver list over the next couple of days.
