Grats on 13 points playing with Datsyuk most of the season. He missed so many easy goals thanks to Datsyuk working his magic and setting him up even though Gator's man was completely ignoring him and focusing on Datsyuk.
Weren't half of his goals this season just Datsyuk bouncing it off of his dumb*** and into the net?
I feel like I live in an alternate dimension where people cant see how utterly useless Gator is.
The problem isn't how bad Gator is.
It is, ANYONE on this team in that spot will look bad.
Best player is Bertuzzi.
But either way whoever is with Z-Pav-XXX ; The XXX player is going to let us down.
Unless we sign a UFA worth 6million... and then hope he plays up to that contract.
We have alot of bottom 6'ers. They are starting to be moved to our top lines, because we just don't have enough good players.
Talk all you want about getting rid of Hudler (gone already), filppula (unless he starts making sense we will let him walk), and franzen (no one in the organization has suggested letting him go, but many posters here do not like him a lot and would be happy letting him go). But that is pretty much every player that is a top 6'er or better.
Sorry we have no replacement for those players, and if you say "nyquist, tatar, brunner, UFA etc etc" . Lets be honest... IF we are LUCKY, they simply REPLACE our "not good enough top 6'ers".
Bottom line, Gator, Eaves, Samuelsson are not as bad as people make them out to be. The problem is our TEAM is too weak, and thus these players are being used in key roles. When they should not be!
P.S. I think we are doing great to be tied 2-2 in this series. We had to win our two games in overtime, and the games we didnt, we were outscored 7-1