Yeah, I noticed both Hampus and Guhle were out of last night's box score too. That's truly being decimated. And MDZ was suddenly your leader in ice time (no knock on him, he's a good, experienced hand to call upon for less than 1M). I'm sure you guys are going to get alot better when those three guys get back.
In the meantime, it might be a bit of a blessing in disguise if guys like Mahura and Larsson get to step up and show what they're made of. How have those two looked for you guys?
Larsson has been pretty steady on the 3rd pairing playing with MDZ/Holzer mostly... personally when we drafted him I thought hed bring more of a two way game.. but he seems more like a defensive guy... im impartial to him... but hes still young, im hoping he can show more as the season goes on. Ive had high hopes that he could become like a Lindholm lite tho.
Guhle seems like physically he has the tools to succeed but mentally he may fall short(the fan base is 50/50 on him), he is being put in situations to do well with Eakins as the coach(fowler also)… getting lot of offensive zone starts, and allowing both players to utilize their skating to avoid getting stuck in the dzone.
Mahura played his 1st game last night(this year, I think he played around 15 last year) and i missed it, but he had 3 assist... ive been pretty high on mahura since we drafted him... i felt like last year he struggled a bit(i think he had injury problems also)... but im hoping he can turn into a theodore/fowler type 2way dmen.
Ideally when healthy id like to see
Lindholm Manson
Guhle Fowler
Larsson/mahura and Guds/MDZ
Prob get rid of holzer...he is shit.