Boudreau even played Burroughs at LD with Myers in the last preseason game to prepare for this exact situation and he did very well, and it should have been obvious to scratch Stillman to do the same thing.
The second problem is that they seem to rate Poolman over Burroughs.
Garland fit fine when he was racking up 50 ES points last year.
I’m glad you called it “racking up”.
A similar small winger the team already had was doing the same thing for 20% of the salary.
he had a hot start and a nice point racking final 15. Redundant players requiring a contract too expensive for the way the roster was constructed.
I know you like defending the honour of this management but not trading Garland on top of signing Brock, Ilya, and JT has absolutely screwed the forward makeup.
They also signed Kuzmenko who’s expecting to outperform Garland for $950k this season.
You add up all these winger moves, and projecting a winger as C, and you’ve got a shit mix of forwards not set up for success.
I also just looked at Garland’s stat line from Washington. A lot of zeroes. A lot of negatives in the relative categories too.
Benching a vet and giving the opportunity to Hoglander was a reasonable move. Would it matter if they benched Joshua and gave CG those 8/9 minutes….doubt it.
I wonder if the org also wants Poolman in ahead of Burroughs. I mean they gave Poolman like 6 minutes less ice time. I hope Burr goes back in and agree with you it should be in place of Cory Stillman.