Player Discussion Rudolfs Balcers - LW

[Alf Silfversson]

Dzingel - Duchene - White
Tkachuk - Pageau - Stone
Balcers - Tierney - Ryan
Smith - Paul - Boedker

Wolanin - Demelo
Lajoie - Jaros
Harpur - Ceci

 

[OmniSens]

I'm happy he gets the call up, but is Batherson injured? I figured he'd get called back up sometime soon after he got sent down.

 

[Sens of Anarchy]

I'm happy he gets the call up, but is Batherson injured? I figured he'd get called back up sometime soon after he got sent down.

You'll have to do a deep dive into the mind of Pierre Dorion ; Let us know if you find anything.

 

[Tnuoc Alucard]

I'm happy he gets the call up, but is Batherson injured? I figured he'd get called back up sometime soon after he got sent down.

He's had a good look see, at the NHL level, and he's a keeper ...... and better off in the AHL, for the time being.

They probably want a look see at Balcers, at the NHL level, prior to the TDL, and determine if he's also a keeper, and or give other teams a chance to see him.

 

[Joeyjoejoe]

Garbage line up.

Should be

Dzingel - Duchene - Balcers
Tkachuk - White - Stone
Paul - Pageau - Boedker
Smith - Tierney - Ryan
Paarvi

Lajoie - DeMelo
Wolanin - Jaros
Trash boy - garbage man

 

[BondraTime]

Guessing we'll see a carousel of young guys back and forth the rest o the year, and rightly so.

Balcers earned the 2nd call up after Batherson, he'll get his cup of coffee an we can see what he's made of.

 

[saskriders]

Excited to see what he can do.

 

[BalticWarrior]

Get hype! Finally hes called up.

 

[Lenny the Lynx]

I like the call up but not sure why Dorion had to send a 2019 5th rounder to Belleville to get it done

 

[God Says No]

I like the call up but not sure why Dorion had to send a 2019 5th rounder to Belleville to get it done

Because Dorion.

 

[Emerica]

I like the call up but not sure why Dorion had to send a 2019 5th rounder to Belleville to get it done

Do not worry we got a 6th in 2024 back.

 

[Xspyrit]

Yup Boucher went from having 1 line working to having zero lines working; looks like he is changing it back... I mean what's a couple more losses

So you're saying that I'm avoiding more frustration by avoiding Sens hockey.

Melnyk-Dorion-Boucher & co : incredible how they have sabotaged a hockey team in a short period of time.

 

[Masked]

I'm happy he gets the call up, but is Batherson injured? I figured he'd get called back up sometime soon after he got sent down.

Keeping the Drake ineligible for the next expansion draft.

 

[greasysnapper]

Felt bad that he was lining up with Paajarvi for most shifts even if they were plugging in Duchene/Dzingel in there at times with them. That one shift where he slotted in with Boedker and Tierney looked promising and a bit sad as a Sharks fan. It was like the old band got back together.

I feel like it would have served this player better to keep him in the AHL and continue to develop rather than bring him up for 7 minutes in hell.

 

[FolignoQuantumLeap]

Keeping the Drake ineligible for the next expansion draft.

How exactly are they doing that?

 

[Masked]

How exactly are they doing that?

Forgot the AHL counts as experience for it.

 

[slamigo]

He barely played today. What a waste. Boucher is ridiculous. Boucher needs to go.

 

[Sensinitis]

Really like his speed.

 

[aragorn]

IDK Balcers looked like another version of Boedker to me, just another small soft speedy player who is highly skilled in the AHL & looks out of his league in the NHL. He didn't get a lot of ice time especially after they got behind but what we did see was not that impressive. He like so many on this team & in this org, just simply don't engage enough in the play, they don't do anything to make themselves noticed. They go for a skate & head back to the bench after their 45 seconds without touching another player.

 

[BalticWarrior]

Hopefully first of many

 

[OscarsCards]

Rudolfs Balcers now has become 15th Latvian NHL player who has scored a goal in a regular season game and 5th youngest Latvian goal scorer. By the way only 9 of 19 (skaters) Latvians has managed to score a goal in their debut seasons.

People say that you have to earn your nickname and I know that it's early but I have some suggestions - Rudy, Rudd, Dolph.

We can put it on vote, I really like Dolph.

 

[Sensmileletsgo]

Missed the game today but saw a replay of his sweet goal. Other then that, how did he look in his first NHL game?

 

[God Says No]

Missed the game today but saw a replay of his sweet goal. Other then that, how did he look in his first NHL game?

He looked ok, in a very limited ice time he had. He looked better when playing with better players though (duh). He played with Tierney and Boedker today and it was a decent line.

 

[DylanSensFan]

I like Balcers a lot and think he has a great deal of offensive potential, but there were times he looked lost out there today.

 

[Nac Mac Feegle]

Hopefully first of many

Nice hands.