From your words to Babs' ears
This is what I see as well. Polak won't be ready for action until his leg fully heals, and Babs won't have him in the lineup until he's ready to skate like last year because our team is fast and say what you want about Polak but the guy could really skate fast once he hit top speed.
Dude is also built like a truck, something we kinda lack on the D core. His puck skills are adequate and he's a hell of a lot smarter away from the puck than Marincin.
Also, Marincin constantly loses his man as we all saw in horror against Johansson. Would be great to never see him play another game in a Leaf jersey.
Edmonton, while icing the worst team in the league a few years back, let this bumb Marincin go, and that's supposed to make us better? How does that logic work?
Anyways, I like Polak and you can tell his teammates love him and so does his coach, so why not give the guy a chance to show he can come back from that nasty injury and keep the pressure on Carrick for that spot in the top 6.
Carrick doesn't seem to get the love of Bab's when push comes to shove. Still really just a kid though so I hope he shows some improvement this year