With Neil hurt indefinitely it will be very interesting to see who is called up if anyone. While most on here & I imagine management too will want to reward Pageau for his hard work in Bingo to be the first call up, I would prefer Robinson. And before everyone goes crazy let me say that whenever Pageau is called up it is to play on the 4th line & I doubt this time would be any different. People on here are constantly complaining that Pageau needs to play with better players, as does Karlsson, Lazar & a bunch of others. The problems is that Pageau is not going to replace anyone in the top 6 so he has to play on the bottom six with the players we have. Can he be any more effective on the bottom six than Smith or Legwand? Somehow I doubt he will replace either of those two, in fact, unless Lazar goes to the WJC I doubt anyone from Bingo is called up & even then they still have Condra & Greening.
But if someone from Bingo is called up I would like to see Robinson play on the 4th line to see what he can bring at the NHL level at a time in the season when teams are playing much better & whether his speed can help Ottawa especially on the fore check. Look at those RWers below they just keep bigger as we go from 1st line to 4th line, I'm getting all giddy thinking about it.
Hoffman - Zibanejad - Ryan
MacArthur - Turris - Stone
Michalek - Legwand - Chiasson
Greening - Smith - Robinson/Condra