BlueDream
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Yeah, I’m honestly not sure why MacEachern is on the team. He provides nothing. He has 4 points in his last 35 NHL games across the past 2 seasons. If anything, he’s gotten worse since he first came up as he doesn’t seem to be the same pest he used to be; he’s been far less physical than both Toro and Kostin so to your point, he’s not a beast of a forechecker. Joshua provides a lot more than him too.He brings more to the table than MacEachern at this point. And I don't mean in potential, he's just a more impactful player on a shift-by-shift basis. Not that Kostin will pan out as more than an energy player who can chip in some goals, but I'm perfectly happy with those players.
I can't explain the Blues' coaching staff's interest in energy guys who can't score, win faceoffs, OR kill penalties. A player like that had better abso-friggin-lutely wreck people on the forecheck.
Looking at Klim’s numbers, he was actually not terrible on the 4th line. There are definitely things he needed to do more of (like hang onto the puck more and go to the front of the net) but expectations were just so much higher for him that he feels like a major disappointment (and I’m definitely one of the ones guilty of that too). We’ll see if he or someone else gets another shot soon with Walker and Toro on that 4th line.