We've had lots of these AHL pluggers in our organization who put up numbers in the AHL: Cornet, Josh Green, Alexandre Giroux, Charles Linglet, Chris Minard, etc. None of them skate well enough to play in the NHL, and they put up jack squat for offence when they were up with the big team.
Ryan Hamilton is another one cut from the same cloth.
The real question you should be asking yourself is why we are wasting our time with this contract.
At least Gazdic can skate without embarrassing himself, and adds toughness to the line-up.
He also has more goals in the NHL than Hamilton, despite being 5 years younger, and playing only 5 minutes.
It would be ridiculous to take Gazdic out after scoring, and kicking the tar out of Thorburn - simply to replace him with this plug.