Mr. Canucklehead
Kitimat Canuck
Per Renaud Lavoie.
Depth/13th forward at the NHL level, or a roster player for Utica.
Depth/13th forward at the NHL level, or a roster player for Utica.
This makes up for all the terrible moves benning has done! All hair benning!
This, i like a lot.
Idk if he will play for us this year. But he's about the very very best waiver ignored 4th liner you can find. And he's also a guy who can play a solid physical scoring role in the AHL. He's a guy who will play a North-South role with Utica if he doesn't stick as a Canuck...and he'll actually score points doing it.
He'll probably spend most of the year with Utica...but a physical energy player who can score some points is probably exactly what they need right now. It's superb depth for Utica in the right role...and and superb call-up depth if our young kids aren't ready for the Canucks. He can play NHL minutes, easy.
Think...30 year old Ronnie Kenis basically.
Well ... let's not get carried away.
He looked good in the 2013 playoffs on the CPR line for St. Louis but is an iffy skater and has done nothing since - 0-3-3 in 36 games. And his AHL numbers fell off considerably last year.
He's definitely a useful guy to add as depth and to help Utica, so it's a good signing on face value, but I'm not nearly as high as him as I was a while back. He looked like he was going to break through as an NHL player two years ago and has regressed and is now 30.
If he had broken through as an NHL player though, we would've been signing him in late August.
If that sounds overly enthusiastic...it's because they signed a guy who can play legitimate NHL minutes if he has to...and can make something of them, rather than just whittling them away. And if he most likely has to play AHL minutes...he's a guy who can play an "AHL power forward" role. That's solid too.
If he had broken through as an NHL player though, we would've been signing him in late August.
If that sounds overly enthusiastic...it's because they signed a guy who can play legitimate NHL minutes if he has to...and can make something of them, rather than just whittling them away. And if he most likely has to play AHL minutes...he's a guy who can play an "AHL power forward" role. That's solid too.
A few too many superbs...LOL.
I wouldn't call this superb. It's a decent depth pickup.
There are established NHL players still unsigned, Christian Ehrhoff was picked up a couple days ago. Don't agree with your first sentence.
Now they need a scoring C in Utica....looks pretty shallow on talent down there and probably another veteran Dman.
Certainly at least 3 less Superbs than signing Ehrhoff.
Whatever that means.
Great signing, another win for Benning