He lost his blazing speed. That's his forte, his thing, his main asset, his bread and butter. What if Ovechkin lost his shot? What if Semin did? What if Patty Kane lost his stickhandling? (I know those are harder to lose than speed, but that's not the point)
It's his main thing, and he seems to have lost it.
I agree that he can still be an effective forward. But not on the first line (which is what he's paid to do at the moment, and the situation he's supposed to be put in), and I'm asking himself what he can do on the second line as well. (Maybe a bit of a stretch). But at this point I'd just prefer someone else to take his role. People come and go right? Maybe it's just time to let go of him, and the timing seems good with his contract expiring soon.
Well, I agree with all that. But we need to finish the year with what we have, or maybe if we are really out of the playoffs picture at the deadline (won't be enough IMO), we'll trade him as a rental
However, we need to really admit that the Turris line is the 1st line this year for all kind of reasons and chemistry is the biggest one. So :
MacArthur-Turris-Ryan
Smith-Spezza-Michalek
Conacher-Zibanejad-Condra
Greening-Grant-Neil
Kassian
Sucks that Zibanejad isn't a winger really because I would slot him on Spezza line
I'm hoping we can make a trade and move out Greening and another forward (maybe Michalek? to even out salaries) to bring that veteran D-man "stabilizator". Hoffman, Stone, Petersson, Da Costa, Pageau, Schneider, JOB... A lot of forwards we can call up and would not look out of place. We can afford to move forwards.
Greening + Michalek for Campbell? Would it work?
Maybe, maybe not. But he has 3 goals. So even if he gets more assists than goals, he won't even be hitting 20 goals at this pace. That's not enough, let's not kid ourselves. Especially not at that price tag!
I know, just another player on the list of Sens players underachieving. Let's see if he (and they) can turn it around a bit.
He's being paid 6M in actual dollars this season.
Which is the sucky part of the contract (well, just for the poor teams lol), but who would give good value in that case? Has to be a big contract (or cap hit) coming back
just seems like it then i guess. spezza passing less maybe
Milan isnt getting his shot like he use and imo he barely culd even get the puck when he was with ryan and spezza.
Actually, I am a bit disappointed by Spezza playmaking so far this year, doesn't provide as much scoring chances as he normally does (mainly because Spezza lines spend too much in their zone). Imagine a Turris line and Spezza line firing on all cylinders, would be great to see
