Ok, but none of that is what you said. You said that "the real problem is that JR signed Corvo and made Sangs redundant for no apparent reason other than compulsive recycling." Besides being an unreasonable statement, it ignores the possibility that JR (or Muller) wanted a RH PMD as insurance for McBain and/or Faulk. If that's the case, which neither of us knows whether is true or not, then he didn't make Sanguinetti redundant. At the time the action was taken, Sanguinetti was simply not seen as being capable of filling that role. To argue otherwise is revisionist history...at best.
Ok, take a step back from that partial quote and look at the full scope of the conversation.
- Someone said Sanguinetti should not be in the lineup, ever, period.
- A couple of people pointed out that Sangs hasn't really had a poor game since early on. That he's been quietly serviceable.
- I agreed, and added that his biggest issue right now is a lack of a clear purpose for being on the team.
Onto THAT I added that the biggest issue
for Sanguinetti is that JR made him redundant by signing Corvo.
The whole idea behind acquiring Sanguinetti was that he might eventually add a right-handed puck moving option to the bottom pairing and PP. Now that he's in a position to become that player, he's spending half his time in the press box behind a virtually identical but much older and more expensive player. What is Sanguinetti supposed to do, other than wait for Corvo to fail or get injured?
Whether JR acquired him for insurance or not, I don't see how there's even a question that Corvo is making Sanguinetti redundant right now. Unless Sangs miraculously gets a lot better at defense, he and Corvo are going to have to share a role in an area where we are already overstocked.
