KIRK
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- Aug 2, 2005
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Have to disagree with that. Despres was never a beast for us. Mainly because he was almost exclusively paired with Scuderi, but he was never giving the amount of icetime to dominate a game. Maybe his closest to being a beast with us was his time in Discos last year where he was paired with Nisky(?).
A lot of people could see his potential and he had several good to very good games, but even with Despres the third pairing last year was still bad. Pens brass unfortunately had to learn the hard way, how difficult it was to shelter Robbie.
I would give up a lot to have him back, because this would make our blueline absolutely set longterm.
It's why what Guerin told JR to do last year was a franchise altering mistake.