How many games this season will we be 100% healthy? Very few... For those games, we simply sit whatever player needs a maintenance day, and rotate players out to keep the team fresh. If we have this many players, you will see this team before one of the league's best road teams.
Back to junior soon. Coach doesn't trust him enough to play him.
Could just be because he has rookies on his wings, too.
If it was, say, Dorsett - Horvat - Hansen, they'd obviously get a regular shift.
They could've switched him in and out to rest other guys. I don't recall seeing Horvat on the the ice for the whole 3rd? And I think for the last half of the 2nd? That's too long to bench a rookie like Horvat, what kinda message does that send to him, it's against the freaking Sens.
They could've switched him in and out to rest other guys. I don't recall seeing Horvat on the the ice for the whole 3rd? And I think for the last half of the 2nd? That's too long to bench a rookie like Horvat, what kinda message does that send to him, it's against the freaking Sens.
kid ain't ready. he made some nice offensive plays early but he's a liability overall. this is a stanley cup caiber team, can't have young plugs like horvat in the lineup in june. he's a year or so away.
They could've switched him in and out to rest other guys. I don't recall seeing Horvat on the the ice for the whole 3rd? And I think for the last half of the 2nd? That's too long to bench a rookie like Horvat, what kinda message does that send to him, it's against the freaking Sens.
kid ain't ready. he made some nice offensive plays early but he's a liability overall. this is a stanley cup caiber team, can't have young plugs like horvat in the lineup in june. he's a year or so away.
That's just not how Willie rolls (his lines). He likes to keep his lines together for consistency, which I think is why Hansen has stayed on the top line instead of Burrows. In general, there's no Vigneaultesque blender.
Oh, and it sends the message that he's a rookie.
AV has gotten two different teams to the SCF in the last few years... He was a pretty solid coach, not that I don't think Willie isn't but don't like this move he pulled off today, I don't think that's right. He's giving Vey every chance and ignores his defensive holes because he coached him and wanted him here, Horvats the better all around player and when it comes to protecting the lead Horvat > Vey. I Just don't like what Willie did tonight to Horvat, he's here to play and develop if the coach can't trust him against the freaking Sens than send him back where he can get a lot of ice time and has a coach who trusts him.
I wasn't criticizing AV--just observing that he tends to shuffle lines more. This is why I think Vey gets more ice time; he's been around since the start of the season, and so has established a presence with other guys. I agree that Horvat should be sent down if this is the ice time he continues to get throughout the season, but I don't expect his ice time will remain low. If for whatever reason WD continues to feel that that's all the play a Horvat line can get (and for now, I agree with others that it's as much about linemates), then I have no doubt that he will be returned to junior.
They could've switched him in and out to rest other guys. I don't recall seeing Horvat on the the ice for the whole 3rd? And I think for the last half of the 2nd? That's too long to bench a rookie like Horvat, what kinda message does that send to him, it's against the freaking Sens.
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Vey basically proves your theory completely wrong. New player, thrown onto the first unit PP without doing anything to earn it.
Started at 3C. Couldn't handle it, moved to 4C, Still has issues at center, moved to 2nd unit RW with Bonino (wtf ), played mostly 4C rw recently, now all the sudden is 3c wing. Oh and has even seen time on the first line rw
He's been given EVERY chance to succeed. His dad could be coach and he wouldn't be tried everywhere to try and shelter is defensive issues.
Horvat has been tried at 4C and that's about it really.
I recall one shift cut really short because MacLean changed lines and threw out... Lazar and co. Desjardin countered with Vey and some (non Sedin) hodgepodge line. If Horvat can't be trusted to match against the likes of Lazar, who got 3rd line minutes, we a have an issue.
, re folks thinking Virtanen will be on the roster next year.
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Vey basically proves your theory completely wrong. New player, thrown onto the first unit PP without doing anything to earn it.