Micklebot
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- Apr 27, 2010
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Well, i gather the view from the executive suite was there's zero chance Balcers would have been here long term
I think something most here would agree on is we have a very large pipeline of players coming in the next few years and this was going to result in some casualties. Balcers appears to be the first of those casualties
In the past we alway had a last look at guys like that before moving on, Prince got ~40 games before we traded him, Puemple got a dozen or so,
With no preseason this year and a team that very few expected to be in the playoffs at the end of the year, it would have been nice to get a chance to see where he stood in game action before moving on, our large pipeline didn't stop us from signing Galchenyuk who is likely gone after this season. Maybe after a dozen games a team running into injuries would flip us a 3rd for him the way the ils's did for Prince
Paul's coming out party makes it hard to imagine Balcer's in our top 9 failing injuries though, maybe if we tried a offence oriented 4th, but that doesn't seem like our coaching staffs style.