Zirakzigil
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I'll be suprised if DOC, Big Z, or Arch beat out Poehling for the 12 spot.
Samesies. People think their is “competition” going into camp, but IMO Poehling and Ty Smith have the 12th and 6th roles guaranteed.
My hope
12F - Poehling
13F - Big Z
Waive - Arch
DOC - AHL - first call up
6D- Smith
7D/8D - POJ/Ruh
Waive - Friedman
I'd like to keep Friedman up TBH, because we are really lacking in the sandpaper/agitation department and that's something he certainly brings while being fine in his role defensively. That said, I recognize that Sully hates those kinds of players, so I'll be shocked if he's still up come the end of camp. And even if he is, he won't be getting a lot of ice time, barring injuries.
If we run a 23 man roster, yeah.
If we run 22, it gets a bit more awkward very quickly.
Hope next offseason Pens target Gudas.
Here you go Sully!
I prefer Friedman over Ruhwedel tbh.
Friedman can be a little rough around the edges sometimes but I've always really liked the way the team seems to respond when he does get out there. And to my eyes he's never made what I would consider TOO many mistakes of the egregious type. He's not gonna cost you games. And like you said he actually brings something a little different to the table.
Like Gurgs said... I definitely prefer him over Ruh. Ruh is great because he seems willing to stick around on the relative cheap and is a low event kind of guy that won't do much but won't cost you either. And most importantly you can have him ride the bench as an extra without feeling bad about it. But Spearman seems like a significantly more dynamic player.
Ruh is basically the definition of a low-event defenseman so as long as he's willing he's the ideal 7/8 type. Just keep signing him back to short deals with a progressively bit higher amount of money on each because I mean, we aren't monsters and those head razors aren't cheap.
Friedman being both sided is important as an extra too.
Ruh's a damn useful guy to be around and I don't care enough to do more than shrug when it happens, but I'd probably keep Friedman over him unless Fried blows it.
I also think Friedman's done enough to be claimed on waivers although he probably won't as the NHL just seems awash with players right now.
In my dream world someone finally pays Hextall's price for Pettersson at the last moment, f*** knows why.
Friedman will be claimed by the Flyers.
You all forget the possibility of the Pens inviting some scrub as a PTO to camp “that has no chance to make the team” make the team. They could also go after ZAR if he’s cut from Toronto. Don’t count out Sully and Hextall’s stupidity yet.
Simon saved this team from himself. We should be very grateful. This team would have run Archibald and Simon on their fourth line if it was up to tweedle dee and tweedle dum.
I really want camp to start, Boyle to retire, and ZAR to get his one year, league minimum deal done with Toronto.
Friedman is also really great to have around to troll Philly. Which never gets old.
I still don't know what he did to those guys but holy shit does he seem to trigger them.
Well Ya...but Sully will 100% have Ruh on this roster. Don't put it past him to slam down a Ruh-Rutta pairing.
Friedman is #9 on the depth chart at this point and brings a highly redundant skill set outside of his snarl, which you can get elsewhere.
They need to clear roster spots for POJ and eventually Smith. Keeping a pure depth guy who just has one unique trait that you can probably get elsewhere is just something I can't agree with. Maybe you can argue Ruhwedel is more redundant, but Ruhwedel is also comfortably better IMO.
A pair of Pet(s) and a Pair of Ru(s). It almost makes me wonder what Paul Steigerwald would do with that.
I don't care what all the stuffy people say give me back Steggy and Bob. What a beautiful and entertaining train wreck they were.
Mears is so bland.
I get not liking Mears. That's totally valid. Dude is about as exciting as a bucket of wallpaper paste.
But let's not go nuts, here. I'm not so sure we're remembering what an absolute putz Steigerwald was.
I actually didn't get as worked up over that as a lot of people did. Though I mean... obviously a uh... odd joke to make, there.
I got more annoyed at his... oh I dunno... basic inability to do his job.
If that had been Jack Edwards folks would have said "Eh it's just Jack being Jack!" and moved on with their lives.
One of the most entertaining things Steigy ever did IN his career IMO
It was certainly a spicy switchup from not being able to tell Jarkko Ruutu and Crosby apart, pumping up the most basic of things done by role players like Craig Adams (what an absolutely masterful dump in there, Bob!) and calling goals that clearly weren't goals and vice versa.
I mean, we'll never forget Kunitz was there.....but as bad as shit like Mears and "the Brockstar" is, yeah, the constant actual mistakes Steigy kept making in the twilight years were just too much.
I don't want to believe this. The issue with his team in the past has been guaranteeing players roles and I hope they have changed with some roster turn over.
But we will see soon enough.
