Surprising. Maybe its a momentum call. Or is Dobby headed elsewhere?
I have the Thursday night game vs Rags as my Judgement Night game. At home vs a very good team.
Can't imagine that they'd ever play Dobby tonight. Rask should be able to handle 6 games every other day, starting with Dallas through Detroit. Plus, NJD and DET are also spots you could reasonably rest Rask. Points are at a premium, and I could see Rask potentially playing every game in March except for one of CGY/EDM....even the OTT/TOR back-to-back, especially if both those teams are competitive when we get to that part of the schedule.
But I agree with you 100% about Thursday. It's a character game...it'll test how they deal with a tough team in a critical game.