Buffalo physically beat us last night. Quite a few cheap shots, I counted 3 on Huberdeau. Huberdeau will get hurt if we can't match up with teams physically. Im not talking about throwing Parros out there to fight Scott either. I saw the same thing with Pittsburgh. Panthers never play dirty. Maybe they should start. We have a real asset in Huberdeau. If they want to target him than we should make sure Vanek and Crosby go home bruised as well.
thing is we don't have players that naturally have that aggressive sense of approach...
Parros is a slow mule out there.. who is next in line? Skille?
Strachan and kopecky are the only ones who actually throw their weight around in that aspect.. barely.
I would like to acquire someone passionate who skates hard, chirps and plays with an attitude.. someone that doesn't mind getting into the face and mind of the opposing player. Someone who goes on the ice to play hard not to make friends.
That is why I miss upshall, sure his contract sucks, but the guy is good for 30 points + that aggressive type of play, if he stays healthy. This latest injury was because someone fell on his leg awkardly, not his fault.
Someone like bolland..brouwer...simmonds...cooke... Lucic...
Thing is its kind of a mirror effect when it comes to players on a team. Once a player start to show some balls out there the rest of the team follows suit and buys into the whole aggressive aspect of it, or a portion of that. That's what makes Campbell such a great O - Dman just because he takes those risks, skates with poise and jumps up on the play. Kulikov/strachan/robak can look at this guy and emulate, even if it's a small aspect, of their game.
Same goes for that gritty aggressive aspect of the game, unfortunately we have no one that provides that.
