MS
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You don't know either of that. You're letting emotions get ahead of cold hard logic. Putting any sort of trust into waivers is insane and irresponsible. Why on earth would you take such a meaningless risk? All you're doing is putting the team in a bad position for no real reason.
Alberts was available all summer and nobody was interested. He's been a marginal/bad hockey player for years. He just had the most brutal preseason I've ever seen from a Canuck roster player in a lifetime of following the team. Odds he is claimed off waivers are *exceptionally* minimal. And if someone claims him, IMO that's actually a good thing.
And no, when a guy looks this dreadful, it isn't hard to replace him. There are multiple better players unsigned right now hoping for an NHL contract.
Losing Alberts is not a 'risk'. The organization is better off without him.
Hopefully the team is chasing a guy like Tom Gilbert or Ian White to fill the #6 spot.