InformTheMasses
Registered User
I hear you. The Islanders caught some lightning in a bottle. CMAC stepped up for a shortened season and played above his head quite frankly. He played well at one brief point, and I had no problem with him a few years ago. Last year CMAC came crashing back down to earth and this year he did nothing to dispel the notion that THAT was the real Colin McDonald. It's over for him, and that's okay because there's plenty of talent available in the Islander organization. Him OFF the roster is much better than him ON the roster from this point forward.
Meh, I guess. Too be honest I think Harry Z or even Sundstrom would be a better call up if a bottom 6 player (Bailey, Nielsen, Kulemin, Cizikas, Martin, Conacher, Clutterbuck) were to go down with an injury......
.but if any of the following players get injured: Tavares, Okposo, Lee, Nelson, Strome, Grabovski. The proper move would be to call up Collberg and see what he can do on a temporary (until injured player returns) basis.
Instead what they will instead do is promote one of the checking line players like Bailey or Kulemin or Clutterbuck or Conacher or Grabner to a scoring role, that they should not be asked to provide and then plug in a Boulton into the bottom 6.
This strategy has to stop right now, it's gone on far too long and it impacts the team negatively time and again. I'm not calling for players like Collberg to be 'RUSHED' into the NHL permanently. I'm asking for skilled players to be used in those roles and get their feet wet along the way when injuries occur on limited basis' and then returned to continue to develop. So they don't show up to the NHL as a 23 year old never having stepped inside an NHL arena for a regular season game before.
