I was pretty young at the time, but I remember a young exciting player with potential playing a lot of 4th line minutes at the beginning of his career with the caps...one peter bondra. Now, there's no way wilson is going to score 500 goals in the NHL, but just because he's only playing 8 minutes a night in the first 4! games of his nhl career will have no impact on his potential.
But, it goes both ways. We all thought Hanlon was an idiot for starting backstrom as the 4th line center his rookie year. But the circumstances are significantly different.
Let wilson figure out how to practice, eat, prepare, etc. for the NHL and give him some game time to get a better feel for the NHL game. He'll get his chance farther up the roster soon enough. He's 18 for crying out loud!
I don't think the complaining is about the handling of Wilson. It's about the elephant in the room with Erat. You take on a 4.5 million contract and give away your 2nd best prospect for a RW now playing on the left side, on the wrong side of 30 and delegated to the 4th line. That's the problem.
Ok, so who's selling D men?
there is a lot more to this than meets the eye. a. tonight it looked to me like Erat and Wilson made up two parts of a pretty good line.
I discussed this with rouser earlier in the day. this erat on the 4th smacks a lot of ovechkin on left wing with beagle and crabb last season. its like erat said he didn't want to play center and oates said ok...how about the 4th line then?
I'd consider Nick Schultz from Edmonton
Adam Vingan @AdamVingan 34s
#Caps lines this morning in Arlington: 90-19-8, 21-84-20, 25/24-16-42, 10-46/83-43.
Also, Luca Sbisa from the Ducks.
Katie Carrera @kcarrera 1m #Caps announce they’ve assigned Connor Carrick and Michael Latta to Hershey. Left-handed D Nate Schmidt has been recalled.
Katie Carrera @kcarrera 1m #Caps announce they’ve assigned Connor Carrick and Michael Latta to Hershey. Left-handed D Nate Schmidt has been recalled.
Nope. Salary wouldn't work with just Carrick going down.Is there any chance this is a paper transaction?
They should just waive Volpatti already.