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I'd say keep him up and acquire an experienced dman to play alongside him.
The wave of adrenaline is gone and he is trying too hard to not make mistakes. Will be interesting to see if he is not sent down to the A.
Who would possibly play instead of him?.. He is stuck with Ceci or Wideman two of the worst defensive hockey players playing in the NHL.
I dunno that's part of the problem. Maybe Wolanin or Englund?
He is losing confidence imo. You can see a lot more hesitation in his game lately. Either ease back his deployment or send him down.
Wolanin? He's earned a promotion too...Who do you replace him with? I dont have any issues with his progress so far...adversity is to be expected and overcome.
Agreed. Its unfortunate we don't have a steady veteran defenseman to pair the young ones with.He is losing confidence imo. You can see a lot more hesitation in his game lately. Either ease back his deployment or send him down.
What about Muzzin or Martinez?I thought Lajoie was pretty good last night for the most part.
It's pretty clear he's carrying Ceci more than the other way around though. This team really needs a veteran RD to replace Ceci in the mentor role. Ceci is far too fragile, given his struggles, to show any rookie the ropes.
I don't see any internal options really. Maybe move Boro up into Lajoie's 2nd pairing minutes with Ceci? It'll be painful to watch and hurt us in the standings but at least you can shelter Lajoie for a month or two on the 3rd pairing. Outside of getting a decent veteran (Muzzin would be great) I'm not sure there's much that can be done.
I don't think he'll be ruined either way (he thinks the game too well) but his development may be slowed by having to carry a "veteran" D like Ceci.
I don't think he will be sent down, I would be shocked if he was. I think he has a pretty strong hockey IQ but there is now more film on him so other teams are able to figure him out a little bit. Probably needs to have a few less minutes and I never have liked Boro paired with anyone. There just really is not an answer right now unless they make a trade and that is doubtful.The wave of adrenaline is gone and he is trying too hard to not make mistakes. Will be interesting to see if he is not sent down to the A.
Wolanin? He's earned a promotion too...
He is losing confidence imo. You can see a lot more hesitation in his game lately. Either ease back his deployment or send him down.
We need someone to play with Lajoie.
Demelo is fine on the rightm side with Chabot but we need a vet IMO to play with Lajoie.
So let Lajoie play with Demelo for some games. Play Harpur and/or Jaros with Chabot.
I think if we deployed him as a 3rd pair dman, instead of on our "shutdown" pair, he'd be fine. But failing that, I don't think he should be here, we'll do more damage than good by letting him get shelled every night.I don’t think it’s necessary to send him down, perhaps give a game or two off, kind of a reset and just see the game from a different perspective.
Do we really need that many rookies on defense? I think its too soon to bring him up maybe if Harpur or Jaros stuggle I would but not for now.I would like to see Wolanin brought up in the new year to see how he is developing and whether he is ready for the NHL. Then the team can determine how it wants to handle the aging vet D at the TDL.
He is losing confidence imo. You can see a lot more hesitation in his game lately. Either ease back his deployment or send him down.
Do we really need that many rookies on defense? I think its too soon to bring him up maybe if Harpur or Jaros stuggle I would but not for now.
I'd say keep him up and acquire an experienced dman to play alongside him.
Considering how unlikely that is to happen, I’d say he might need a few games in Belleville.I'd say keep him up and acquire an experienced dman to play alongside him.
The issues he's having can't really be blamed on his partner imo. I think it's more likely that he's just hit that rookie wall.Lajoie hasn’t been playing well at all these past couple of weeks. I think it started right when he was paired up with Ceci...
The issues he's having can't really be blamed on his partner imo. I think it's more likely that he's just hit that rookie wall.