I would most definately claim him. And for people who keep saying how we are making always such a big think out of marginal players.....it says a lot about the management when you have a big enough sample to make such a claim..
You need guys like that. Good size, good skater, good on PK to rest you star players from playing there....What people call marginal are STILL valuable players to a team. And DLR brought things we didn't have enough of. We are the smaller team in the league...and we give up on DLR. Mindboggling. But not surprising. Will he be claimed? I think he will. I most definately think he should.
And it's not because we talk about him that we think he is SUDDENLY going to explode into a 1st line Centerman. I know I'm not. He is what he is. But what he is....we would have needed. Look at it the way you want.....as tons of ''marginal'' guys some thing we have....we have 0 guys like him. Speed and size and PK specialist. Poehling shouldn't be that. You hope to god he won't be. Who else? Pleks retires next year. So it leaves us with Peca.
I hope he isn't claim to see Joel work with him. That's for sure. Hoping the heart incident will scare some teams.