I've been mildly disappointed in the little bit of what we saw from Clendening and now Dahlbeck. Small sample size, but I don't think either look ready.
As someone intimated above, TVR just blended in so seamlessly.
Hold it...you are ready to throw Dahlbeck under the bus after just 2 games? YOU are disappointed...even mildly. ..somehow? AFTER just 2 games? YOU expected what,Bobby Orr? Or to be at least as good as the great TVR? TVR who after his 18GP had the sum total of just 1A and was at Zero in plus/minus....but because Dahlbeck has no points in 2 games and is -1, this is a disappointment? Maybe to be fair you should allow him some more games?
I take it you do not recall how really stinky Keith and Seabrook were in their initial seasons...Or that you think both of these illustrious men never get beat...never goof...never get caught pinching and never are on for goals against anymore....and that You are satisfied with the "great" NHL ready plus minus stats that 2 and 7 have posed so far this season as READY experienced.NHL vets?
Yes Dahlbeck was on the ice for 2 goals against last night and for 1 goal for so netting -1...but no way was it his fault on the first goal against....Seabrook made a bad pass cross ice up to attempt to connect with Shaw but it was off target a nice intercept and re-directed tip to Tootoo by Bernier and a shot and a goal...Either blame Seabrook for a lousy pass or blame Shaw for not checking Bernier before he could tip it over to Tootoo. ..but Nothing Dahlbeck could do to.prevent that goal. .Not his fault...
ON the 2nd goal Dahlbeck was there battling in the crease to push out the NJ forward but the puck took a bad bounce up in the air after a shot and it was batter in baseball style. ..a nice ability by the NJ scorer just as our guys like Shaw have sometimes converted to goals by batting puckstopper in the air in..Not really much a man can do with such lucky opportunities...if the shot had not deflected up in the air maybe Dahlbeck could have gotten a stick or skate on it on the ice to get the puck away..but instead pure bad luck to have the puck deflect up into the air and then a nice stick by the NJ forward tp bat it in while it was in the air. I am certain both Seabrook and Keith had a few situations like that go against them too over the years.
I do think Dahlbeck was better the prior game than this one. ..but so were the majority of the Hawks..
Let us see a few more games before we judge if Dahlbeck is ready or not..but either way he still is only going to be third pairing not a featured top four guy. ..though I did like the fact that he.let go two good shots on goal from the point...more accurate that Keith and Seabrook whose point shots either are blocked or miss the net too often...So there may be some latent goal ability from point shots from Dahlbeck of he continues to get shots through on net and if he shoots enough to display a good hard on target shot that becomes dangerous...but we need more games to Serbia that manifests.
