Ughh
+1
Hopefully he will be pressbox filler. Would rather see Burmi shift for 4C and have Petan slot up to 3LW w/ Lowry + Stafford.
Imagine Petan getting some ice time with Stafford? A player that isn't an offensive blackhole (no offense to Scoreburn )
Sooo ... 4th line of Peluso/Petan/Thorburn tonight?
What's the scoop on Raffl? Injured?
This is definitely more palatable than a 4th line of Peluso/Petan/Thor, and keeping the other lines the same. Although I feel for Burmi slotting between Peluso and Thor, maybe he could elevate their game a bit and the 4th could see more minutes? Or is that just crazy talk?
Raffl = injured.
I'm thinking that he would probably be a lot better defensively than Petan, and shore up our 4th line so they don't get taken advantage of. I'm thinking that Babcock will want to take advantage our our 4th line and keep sending out one of the top lines against them. At least w/ Burmi I would feel more comfortable with the defensive part of the game.
I'd like to put Petan up on the Scheifele line - where at least he'll be sheltered and in a position to play to his strengths. Put Perreault on the Lowry line and move Burmistrov down to centre the 4th. (Or have Burmi centre the 3rd and put Lowry down on the 4th. I think you want to keep Lowry's size on the 3rd line though. 4th has all the size on the wings, so Lowry in the middle might be overkill.)
I agree, I would have preferred to see Armia or Lipon called up and placed on the wing of either Petan or Burmi.
+1
Hopefully he will be pressbox filler. Would rather see Burmi shift for 4C and have Petan slot up to 3LW w/ Lowry + Stafford.
Imagine Petan getting some ice time with Stafford? A player that isn't an offensive blackhole (no offense to Scoreburn )
being bad at hockey doesn't make you good defensively at hockey.
EDIT: ignore, i misread the post this was generally responding to.
Cormier's worse at hockey then petan in pretty much every aspect. I don't know why we wouldn't either A)play petan at center or B) drop burmi to center and call up lipon or armia instead.
it's fourth line plug call so i guess nothing really to lose sleep over but Cormier has pretty much become my AHL version of thorburn.
Put Petan at center and bring up a winger. I shudder to think that Cormier is better at hockey than Armia and others on the the Moose.