I like his play so far because he doesn't hurt the team and plays really well defensively and without the puck and that is already a very good sign. He needs to score some goals , get in the dirty areas and be physical and at this point I think he just doesn't devellop that playing about 13 minutes a night with bottom 6 players.
I don't see how a guy like Condra deserves to be out of the line-up because of Lazar playing. From what I've seen so far, Condra seems to be playing extremely good! He's making our PK so much better that it's worth to have him in playing every night. He's also faster than he was last year, I believe he worked very hard this summer.
The only reason we're having this dilemma is because Lazar doesn't deserve to go back to the WHL, but because of the way the system works its either WHL or NHL. I think a year of AHL would benefit A whole lot to Lazar but he has nothing more to show in the W.
Condra deserves to be on the team and Greening as a 13th forward. Try to unload Greening and call-up Pageau/Robinson/Puemple who really deserve shots at this point, and even more than Lazar.
This being said, I'd send down Lazar because Pageau can offer similar caracteristics and he is older and played great during pre-season. Whoever believes that Lazar deserves to be on this team more than Pageau should really look back at preseason. Pageau was a beast and he's ready to play.