Cyborg Yzerberg
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Yep that's why they wanted to buy out Sammy, and Emmerton played a whopping 18 games that year (not that Nyquist was ever competing for the job of 4th line C but still).
At one point Dan Cleary WAS better than Tatar and Nyquist. He was arguably better than both of them as late as 2012-13.
And it doesn't matter that Babcock wanted XO up. Because after a while, he sent XO down and went with Marchenko instead. Young players that want to be NHLers before they're out of waiver options have to take the chances they get. That's what Larkin did, that's what Sheahan, Jurco and Marchenko did. That's what AA is close to doing. Let's see what XO can do now.
2012 and 2013 Dan Cleary was not better than 2012 and 2013 Nyquist and Tatar. That's madness. neither was Williams, Samuelsson, and whomever was jamming up the roster with empty space those seasons.
The only reason Sheahan and Jurco made the team is because we got caught with so many injuries that they actually had an opportunity to prove themselves, and it became
So quickly apparent that they were so much better than the players whose places they had taken.
Larkin is literally the exception to the rule.