Not really a fan boy but during an 82 game season ..yeah 60 games is ideal.
In a short season especially with a schedule like the Flyers had the first 20....playing as much as he has is over the top IMO.
Finally...as far as Leighton...I think the only way the Flyers and the NHL could have rid themselves of him once and for all was for Tampa or the Panthers to pick him up and a sink hole to swallow him up!
Kinda sucks they traded Sestito... always wanted him in a 4th line spot...
We didn't trade him.
Not sure if this was posted but:
"The Canucks put Volpatti on waivers before they knew that Ryan Kesler had suffered a broken foot. Had they known, they would have put Kesler on injured reserve and kept Volpatti, general manager Mike Gillis said, according to The Province, a British Columbia newspaper."
http://sports.yahoo.com/news/canucks-claim-sestito-off-waivers-232120207--nhl.html
Tostitos is in the Canucks lineup tonight, lets hope he has a good game
He just had a decent fight. started out well, then got hit a couple times pretty good
I think CHI was thinking the same thing.
Frank Seravalli @DNFlyers
Hearing the Oilers may be interested in claiming Tom Sestito off waivers. He isn't 100 percent healthy right now, though.
The 31-year-old Leighton had started just one game since April 2012, thanks to the four-month lockout, Philadelphia’s use of Bryzgalov as a workhorse and the injury he suffered in practice. As he neared full health, he and Flyers general manager Paul Holmgren discussed Leighton’s future.
The goaltender needed reps, and not the kind he could get during a practice. The best way for a goalie to prepare for a game is to play one, to work himself back into a rhythm of facing shooters.
“He told me I definitely needed to play, and I agreed,” Leighton said. “I haven’t played for a while. I played one game against Tampa Bay and then I sat for two or three weeks and then I got hurt and have been out for two or three weeks. It’s something that I thought was the right thing to do.”
That begs the question, why not just assign Leighton to the Phantoms on a conditioning stint? Why place him on waivers, and run the risk that one of the other 29 NHL teams put in a claim?
That was discussed, Leighton said, but a conditioning assignment would have kept him on the Flyers’ 23-man roster. His salary also would have counted against the cap while in the AHL. By placing Leighton on waivers first, the Flyers do not have to worry about either of those issues.
“(Holmgren) was going to do a conditioning stint, but we had too many players on the roster and cap issues,” Leighton said. “He just said ‘We’re going to have to put you on waivers. Go down and play some games, and hopefully be back up.’ ”
Leighton made his AHL season debut Sunday as the Phantoms lost to Albany 3-2. He made 25 saves and played well, though the competitor in him was upset with two of the goals he allowed.
“He just said ‘We’re going to have to put you on waivers. Go down and play some games, and hopefully be back up.’ ”
Hopefully? umm yeah NO! "Hopefully" a journeyman AHL'r who has been "waived" down more times than hooker on a street corner and who wasn't even picked up by a KHL team during the lockout DOES not come back ever again....
I hope Holmgren was just appeasing him with hope and in reality will leave him where he belongs once and for all...
Not for nothing, but Craig Anderson was put on waivers 3 times in a span of 3 weeks in 2006.
I strongly dislike that Homer is only sending him down to get more starts. He clearly wants to bring him back up to play.
So basically, Homer wants the team to lose games. He might not realize that's what he's doing, but it is.