lawrence
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Heard Willy Lockwood looked good. anyone confirm this? If this is the case I am ok with losing Virtanen bring this kid up at some point. Heard some Motte comparisons
Nothing official from the league yet but all indication is there will no Calder Cup this season. There is some talk of a limited playoff format within the individual divisions but there is still a chance of no playoffs at all.In the rare chance that Benning gives up on the season and decides to send Hog/Juolevi/Bailey/etc back down for a potential Calder run, how much say does St Louis have on the construction of the roster?
The way coved is disappearing down there, and fans now in most rinks, maybe there will be spring playoffs?Nothing official from the league yet but all indication is there will no Calder Cup this season. There is some talk of a limited playoff format within the individual divisions but there is still a chance of no playoffs at all.
This season is about development only. The Syracuse Crunch are one of a shrinking number of teams that are independently owned rather than NHL owned. Howard Dolgon their owner agreed to play this season because he felt he owed it to Tampa Bay to give their prospects a place to play and develop. He also said that he wanted to play as few as games as possible and had no interest in a playoff after the regular season. Every game they play cost him more money with little additional revenue coming in per game. Teams that are NHL owned likely have no interest in extending the AHL season beyond May when the regular season is scheduled to end. A significant number of NHL owned AHL teams are playing out of practice rinks instead of their normal arenas to save costs.The way coved is disappearing down there, and fans now in most rinks, maybe there will be spring playoffs?
The way coved is disappearing down there, and fans now in most rinks, maybe there will be spring playoffs?
Rathbone was finally sent down.
Scott Perunovich is the top rookie D with St. Louis, Last season's NCAA Hobey Baker winner. He has been in the same spot as Bone all season. He is riding in the cab. In spite of all the injuries in St.Louis, he has not left the cab.
"Scott Perunovich, come on down!"
Not going to happen. Perunovich is out for the season due to an injury.
He had shoulder surgery a couple weeks ago.Why do they still list him in the Taxi? Out for the season means LTIR.
So, he will go 2 years without playing the game. That won't bode well for his development.
He had shoulder surgery a couple weeks ago.
St. Louis Blues News: Scott Perunovich Out For All Of 2021
The Blues haven't placed Perunovich on LTIR so Cap Friendly won't list him there. I don't begin to understand the ins-and-outs of LTIR but it is for cap management rather than injury status. Tarasenko is supposed to be close to returning so when he does I imagine one or more of their other injured players will need to be moved to LTIR to stay under the cap. Everything is different this year with the addition of the taxi squad. Normally if a player is injured they are immediately placed on IR so someone else can be called up as a replacement on the 23 man roster. The taxi squad makes it less of an issue so for now anyway Perunovich stays active on the taxi squad even though his season is over before it even started.Thanks for the medical update article.
I don't deny his injury exists. My question ass to why CapFriendly, that normally makes adjustments to their roster lists almost immediately, hasn't removed him from the Taxi Squad and listed him as LTIR. It's just weird for that to go unchanged for over 2 weeks..
I just checked before I posted this and he's still in the cab. No poster is at fault for this. It explains Santini though. I like the guy, but he is not an NHL D-man and he's shown that in Bingo as well as here. He got his chances in NJ because they were D starved and he couldn't cut it. NJ traded him.
Nashville who was D-stocked gave him 2 games and eventually simply moved on. They waived him to buy out his 2 remaining years.
St.Louis then signed him to a 1-yr deal for this season. The reason was to play in San Antonio and work with their young D-prospects. Thus, the reason he was paired up immediately with Tucker in Utica. Tucker has looked lost since Steve was called up. Apparently Reinke doesn't shelter him in the same way, but it was the same kind of move.
That's also why Woo and Rathbone, 2 promising young D in the Vancouver organization are paired up to keep them away from Eliot and Teves, who are not going to be Canucks, but very well may become fixtures in Utica until they head overseas. Benning has never cared who he gets to play here after his prospects. He has always gone with what's easiest for him which is keep the guys who are there in place if they will sign because that saves him the trouble of finding someone else. He always waits until the last minute which sees the players who were looking for a spot signing elsewhere because they need a secure offer.His GM assigned here has never had any business acquiring AHL level talent.$700k Teves may get that option this summer if Benning decides he blew it with that contract and his QO involves a big pay cut which it should. If Benning is gone, you can bet the next GM is going to look at that contract and compare it to his 2 seasons and make that move in a heartbeat.
Sorry, I wandered.
The Blues haven't placed Perunovich on LTIR so Cap Friendly won't list him there. I don't begin to understand the ins-and-outs of LTIR but it is for cap management rather than injury status. Tarasenko is supposed to be close to returning so when he does I imagine one or more of their other injured players will need to be moved to LTIR to stay under the cap. Everything is different this year with the addition of the taxi squad. Normally if a player is injured they are immediately placed on IR so someone else can be called up as a replacement on the 23 man roster. The taxi squad makes it less of an issue so for now anyway Perunovich stays active on the taxi squad even though his season is over before it even started.
Why do they still list him in the Taxi? Out for the season means LTIR.
So, he will go 2 years without playing the game. That won't bode well for his development.
LTIR (or technically injured reserve where the team declares the player out long term) has two results:
1. The first, when the player is on IR whether or not he is our long-term, is that he is no longer on the active roster of 23 players so the team can replace him.
2. The second, when his injury is designated long-term, is that the team can in replacing him exceed the salary cap by up to his cap hit.
The taxi squad is confusing, but it isn't part of the active roster and his pay doesn't count against the cap. That being the case, St. Louis wouldn't gain anything by putting him on IR, long-term or otherwise. In fact if I understand correctly, since he's been assigned (to the taxi squad) and isn't on the active roster he can't be placed on injured reserve anyway.
- Woo is literally the most boring player in history. Solid game, defended well. Virtually never makes a mistake in his fundamentals but there is nothing dynamic there.
Somehow this description of Woo's game almost excites me as much as the one for Rathbone.
It's the weirdest thing with Woo how his exciting-sounding name makes people give him exciting Bieksa-type projections for his career.
I've been saying since he was drafted that the guy's name really should be Colton Smith or something. His upside is Sylvain Lefebvre, who is probably the most boring 'good' NHL player of the last 30 years.
It's encouraging that he seems to be adapting well to the pace of the AHL - definitely looks substantially better than guys like Juolevi/Brisebois did defensively at the same stage of their careers.
Question is how well he can develop with the puck. Will he plateau as a #7 type depth defender or can he be a #4 type 2nd pairing defensive defender?
Are you observing Woo to at least have good mobility?