Frank Corrado

[Reckage]

Kevin Bieksa turns 34 in June, according to the Canucks website. With his advancing years, I can't see the Canucks 'making room' for him in the lineup.

To me, it makes absolute sense to leave Corrado with Hamhuis, basically cementing the top four in the coming years. Today's decisions are about forming a better team down the road, one that Bieksa won't be part of. Corrado will.

The only reason I can see to splitting up Corrado and Hamhuis, could be the play of Clendening. If he plays really well offensively, but needs the stabilizing influence of Hamhuis in his own end, then the second pairing could be Hamhuis/Clendening. The third pairing would then be Corrado plus Bieksa/Stanton/Sbisa/Weber.

Even the notion of sending Corrado down to avoid losing a defenseman now seems pointless. Corrado is one of the top 6 defenders in the organization and should be in the lineup every night.

 

[Nucker101]

Last night was one of the stronger games of his young NHL career, it did come against Buffalo but he was very impressive nonetheless. Hoping he can build on it moving forward.

 

[NuxFan09]

I know it's a very small sample size but he currently leads the team in corsi. I don't know too much about advanced stats but I do know this jibes with the eye test. He just looks so in control of the play when he's out there.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

I think we got a legitimate steal here.

 

[TheWanderer]

If Clendening does well, can Bieksa be feasibly pushed to the Left side?

 

[Verviticus]

Dan Murphy ‏@sportsnetmurph 1m1 minute ago

Frank Corrado is being re-assigned to Utica. Not a paper transaction. On his way to play games with #comets #Canucks

im ****ing mad

 

[Booshami]

Dan Murphy ‏@sportsnetmurph 1m1 minute ago

Frank Corrado is being re-assigned to Utica. Not a paper transaction. On his way to play games with #comets #Canucks

im ****ing mad

Are you ****ing kidding me?

 

[ItsAllPartOfThePlan]

He's been out for a while. Get some games in and he'll be back yo

 

[684]

Ehhhhhhhhhhh, please be back Tanev + Edler

 

[Brock Boeser]

He needs gametime. Hopefully they call him back after a few games.

 

[684]

Sucks for Frankie, I really wanted him to turn into a staple in the line up this year, he was playing well before he got hurt.

 

[BeardyCanuck03]

He needs gametime. Hopefully they call him back after a few games.

I think he will, with Tanev being close to ready and Biega playing real well I suspect they just want to give Frankie some big minutes down in Utica.

 

[David71]

more playing time for corrado to get up to speed.

 

[PG Canuck]

I thought Ian MacIntyre said not too look too much into it, and he'll be back up soon? So we shouldn't sharpen the pitchforks yet.

 

[iceburg]

He'll be back up once Biega's 10/30 are over. He needs some games.

 

[Wisp]

Just awful, awful management he's going to the AHL while a career AHLer like Biega gets to stay up. Garbage.

 

[Booshami]

Just awful, awful management he's going to the AHL while a career AHLer like Biega gets to stay up. Garbage.

Beiga has been so good WTF@!@! Not sarcasm btw

 

[pahlsson]

Beiga has been so good WTF@!@! Not sarcasm btw

i agree

top notch nhl 6/7/ahl call-up dman

 

[TheWanderer]

conditioning stint, probably. Remember, with Frankie it was also an illness.

 

[kanucks25]

Just awful, awful management he's going to the AHL while a career AHLer like Biega gets to stay up. Garbage.

... Relax.

He'll be back.

 

[PG Canuck]

Just awful, awful management he's going to the AHL while a career AHLer like Biega gets to stay up. Garbage.

Such an overreaction. He'll be back.

 

[Wisp]

Beiga has been so good WTF@!@! Not sarcasm btw

he's a bandaid. Fails my eye test and the stats test.

Negative puck possession player, career AHLer. Not young, not worth time at Frank Corrado's expense.

 

[SergioMomesso]

Hopefully this means Edler or Tanev will be ready to rock against the Sharks on Tuesday

 

[Verviticus]

... Relax.

He'll be back.

Such an overreaction. He'll be back.

how do you people not understand that objectively awful small decisions are a billion times worse than "maybe bad" impactful decisions

**** like sending corrado down or wasting small picks on garbage bags (like nonis) is a billion times worse than all the ballards and booths in the world

the funny thing is that biega is actually a really good, possibly-better-than-corrado AHL player that the comets desperately need right now

 

[kanucks25]

how do you people not understand that objectively awful small decisions are a billion times worse than "maybe bad" impactful decisions

**** like sending corrado down or wasting small picks on garbage bags (like nonis) is a billion times worse than all the ballards and booths in the world

the funny thing is that biega is actually a really good, possibly-better-than-corrado AHL player that the comets desperately need right now

Can't tell if this is sarcasm or not.