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Fleury, ???, Bradley Abid, Orpik, Fata. Who is the one I don't recognize? Murley?
Guillaume Lefebvre, I believe... I could be wrong though.
Fleury, ???, Bradley Abid, Orpik, Fata. Who is the one I don't recognize? Murley?
Sid would make the worst GM in hockey. First Dupuis on his wing, now him putting in a good word about Kobasew. Are Glass and Adams Sid's training partners as well?
No guys, he was on the 1st line as a last-ditch effort to get something out of him. If he's bad against the Panthers, the organization will make a move. Stop overreacting.
Haha.
There is a valuable lesson in all this. I will never again rationalize the signing of an old useless vet by saying that he's cheap and can be waived if he sucks, because he WILL NEVER BE WAIVED.
3rd or 4th liner, that's his job and that's the spot he won in camp. He shouldn't be put in a spot where you know he is going to fail. This one is on DB, there are other players that should be playing on Sid's line
Yeah, all of the kids will be sent down first. At the end it will be a battle for the 12th spot between Kobasew & Conner. I think Kobasew gets an upper-hand there because Conner can be dumped down without clearing the waivers.
What? Are you seriously saying that WE CAN´T AFFORD TO LOSE KOBASEW??? Just kick him to the moon and play Gibbons or Megna on his spot. Is it that big of a problem??That how things have to operate in the NHL nowadays. If you've got guys on your roster that are waiver exempt (Megna, Gibbons, and Sill), you send them to the AHL if you need to clear roster space unless they've earned a permanent spot in your top 6.
I'd love to see them stay up and drop some dead weight, but an organization with no forward depth can't afford to lose any forwards - not even Kobasew - on waivers.
Amen
Come on man, he was a great signing. Low risk, potential to resurrect his career, league minimum. If he's bad he can always be waived...
I can't wait until this excuse is banned. These players never work out. There's a reason 29 other teams didn't make him an offer after the pens offered him him league minimum after a decent preseason.
These low risk crappy players are like herpes with Shero as GM, they never seem to go away and stick around for the entire season despite being worthless.
He's shown no signs of improvement. As usual, the pens will be his last stop in his nhl career.
I'd love to see them stay up and drop some dead weight, but an organization with no forward depth can't afford to lose any forwards - not even Kobasew - on waivers.
Pretty sure Sill is no longer waiver exempt ... could be wrong, though
According to CapGeek, he is exempt for another 32 NHL games or through the rest of the season.
http://www.capgeek.com/waiver-calculator/?player_id=2021&NHL_games=20&pro_games_radio=1&Calculate=
The key is that he was playing on an AHL-only deal in 2009-10 and 2010-11 before signing his first NHL deal prior to the 2011-12 season. Those first two seasons don't count against his waiver status because he didn't have an NHL contract.
He won it in camp and then lost it multiple times. It's time he hit the waiver wire.
This is management of PITTSBURGH PENGUINS. You know.. Completely unrealistic wishful thinking.We'll see, maybe management does want a reason to flush Kobasew and is putting him there for that reason knowing he is going to fail
Like I said I don't think we can really blame Kobasew here. You can't expect these sort of players to just step up and start producing at a ppg. Kobasew belongs on the 3rd or 4th line, D'agostini didn't and that's why he got waived but that's my opinion. We'll see, maybe management does want a reason to flush him and is putting him there for that reason knowing he is going to fail
Yep, there is a difference. Kobasew has never been a healthy scratch for us... All of the games he´s missed were because of the injuries. We just can´t get rid of this garbage players What´s more sad is that D´Agostini is actually better than Kobasew.. But Kobasew is older, so that works in his favor.
I still haven't completely lost faith in Shero. I'm holding out some hope that he'll trim the fat before the trade deadline passes, be it in the form of a trade or waiving some guys. I think a lot of it will depend on how well BB does when he gets back, and possibly Gibbons. I'm hoping that Megna isn't playing because he's not fully recovered.
Whew ... lot of hoping there
Kobasew has zero points in his last 24 games in PIT. ZERO, NULL, NOTHING, NONE!! D´Agostini is bad but he´s playing at least average hockey in Buffalo now. I´m not advocating D´Ag, he deserved to be waived here, I´m just saying that Kobasew is even worse hockey player than D´Agostini.In no way did D'agostini outplay Kobasew, that's an absurd statement. D'agostini was completely invisible in every game he played outside of taking stupid penalties. (
Kobasew while mostly invisible still can get a takeaway, hit, and unlike D'ags he has scored. I'm not a huge fan of Kobasew's play either, but it hasn't been D'agostini bad.
Fleury, ???, Bradley Abid, Orpik, Fata. Who is the one I don't recognize? Murley?