Recalled/Assigned: Bishop, Darling, and Kuokkanen Reassigned to Charlotte

[A Star is Burns]

Canes send down Bishop, Darling, and Kuokkanen. Checkers play on Tuesday, but I'm sure the Canes expect they might get a player or two back by Thursday as well.

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[HisIceness]

They'll be back eventually. At least Bishop got a goal out of his stint here so thats cool.

 

[SeaBasstian]

Bishop was a solid 4th liner in his time here. Wouldnt be surprised to see him back up. Very happy with what he brought. Granted only 1 goal, and in a 4th line role. But he was close to a few more. Always worked very hard. Dont see him has being more than a 4th line center, max 3rd line center if injury insists.

 

[Incubajerks]

I think he's our 4th line center for the future.

 

[Cardiac Jerks]

The one that hurts the most is Darling.

 

[Anton Dubinchuk]

Kuokkanen was pretty invisible, at least in what I saw.

 

[SeaBasstian]

Kuokkanen had flashes from what I saw. He had some time on that top PP unit and didnt look completely out of place, didnt kill good cycles and in fact kept some going at times where ive seen plenty of others who shall remain nameless fail.

 

[RodTheBawd]

Kuokkanen is exactly what @Boom Boom Apathy and I have always been saying, there's just something missing.

 

[bleedgreen]

He's a role player with some skill until he can show the confidence to make plays with the puck. I read he's learning to be more aggressive in the AHL this year so maybe he's still a year away but at this point he's a middle six forward at best who isn't good enough to knock out any of our other struggling middle six forwards. I'm not giving up on him but have few expectations at this point. Like most of our prospects he's better off not catching what any of what the Canes forwards have and should focus on a Calder Cup.

He didnt do anything to suggest he should stay up.

 

[A Star is Burns]

He didn't do anything to force keeping him up, but I didn't think he looked awful either. He was just kind of there. He looked solid on the PP and didn't mess anything up there, and I was glad to see him given a shot, but he didn't do anything to wow there either. I didn't notice him even strength, but he didn't have the best line mates either. I think he's probably a complementary skill guy that should be able to carve out a role with a couple of other skill guys and look pretty decent. He just doesn't seem to create a ton on his own at this point at the NHL level. We'll see if that comes. Glad he is getting shots last year and this year, but also glad he gets to go down and work on his shortcomings afterwards as well.