Reddwit
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- Feb 4, 2016
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I feel like he’s the last guy that should be bounced between rosters. He’s offensively inclined and his best showings were in the first half of last season, yet they let him flounder once he started to lose stamina and he hasn’t recovered. But how do they expect him to recover when he’s bounced between a thick AHL defense and a putrid NHL defense? I don’t understand what they expect to see out of him while he plays on a bad team with a rotting locker room and an equally incompetent defense mate when he wasn’t even fully competent in the AHL yet.
If it were me, I would’ve kept him down in the AHL since he was sent down at the end of last season. And I would’ve sent him down there sooner last year to boot. And kept him down til he was The Man, with a couple NHL bones thrown his way during injury pile ups if I had a solid stay-at-homer who knew his role to pair him with.
The goal is to get him competent enough defensively that he can confidently let loose offensively. Yet I feel like we’re killing his offensive flavor by expecting things defensively that haven’t fully sunken in with him yet. Let him get there in the AHL first. Why is that so hard to understand?
And for f***s sake, you call the kid up for a game with Howard in net? That’s practically enough to make me think they want him to fail.
If it were me, I would’ve kept him down in the AHL since he was sent down at the end of last season. And I would’ve sent him down there sooner last year to boot. And kept him down til he was The Man, with a couple NHL bones thrown his way during injury pile ups if I had a solid stay-at-homer who knew his role to pair him with.
The goal is to get him competent enough defensively that he can confidently let loose offensively. Yet I feel like we’re killing his offensive flavor by expecting things defensively that haven’t fully sunken in with him yet. Let him get there in the AHL first. Why is that so hard to understand?
And for f***s sake, you call the kid up for a game with Howard in net? That’s practically enough to make me think they want him to fail.