We have more to gain with Corrado in Utica playing 25 mins than we have to lose having Weber as our sixth dman playing marginal even strength minutes and playing as a PP specialist.
Losing Alberts to waivers, roster flexibility, etc are all factors here. Plus I gotta say Frankie isn't the 2nd coming of Bobby Orr...MS is acting like he is a top-4, 20 minute a night quality dman. He's young and he's going to make mistakes when he goes up against proven NHLers nightly. Just maybe he's not quite as ready as you think??
WHEN a dman gets hurt, he'll be the first callup, and get more minutes than Weber and Alberts since he's better suited to even strength.
You call it gutless. I call it sound, prudent, and long-term. The slightest of short term pain for long term gain.
I'm a strong believer in preserving the integrity of what a training camp is supposed to be - building a roster through legitimate competition for spots, and keeping the best players. Obviously, a Sedin isn't getting cut, but the bottom 5 spots on a roster should e a dogfight.
I can't stand when teams have set rosters, and tell guys they can win a spot when in reality it's already been decided in July who will be on the team on October 1.
Plus we're keeping a terrible player and a marginal player instead of a guy who looked legitimately good. This decreases our chances of winning games when the season starts next week.
What do you guys think of Shinkaruk and Horvat making the team? I am pretty excited to see some
rookies but I wanted to see Corrado. Corrado still counts as a rookie right?
If he does I was thinking he could have been a darkhorse candidate for rookie of the year if none of
star forwards lights it up like many of us are expecting.
I personally think it will be good for Bo and Hunter to get 9 games in anyways. Im sure they will take
that confidence back to Junior or maybe one of them plays the full season...
Neither belongs. Which is again what drives me nuts. These guys don't look remotely ready, but the organization is telling us how good they've looked and how they've won spots.
Shinkaruk will be an excellent player, but he simply isn't generating shots or chances in dirty areas or scoring areas of the ice. He's weak and being forced to the perimeter, and both his goals were non-chances from along the boards.
Gaunce is fundamentally solid enough and a good enough skater to tread water and not hurt the team, but he isn't ready to be a contributor, and I don't see the value of having him skate on a 4th line in limited minutes.