There's a lot of guys on the team I'd rather have killing penalties than Carey. Talbot, McLeod, O'Reilly, Landy, Mitchell when he's back, and Tanguay if he can play all see time ahead of Carey easily. I might even play McGinn and Cliche ahead of him, though Carey deserves a look before stating that definitively.
I've said this before, but I'd also like to see Nate start practicing the PK and get a shift here and there like Duchene had early in his career to get him in the game mentally and boost his ice time. I don't want him making any high risk shot blocks, but I think he can get into shooting lanes pretty quickly with his speed, and limit his risk of injuries by approaching it the way Sakic did, and if there's any kind of bobble of the puck at the blue line he can pounce on it and have a breakaway without anyone catching him.
I hope Patrick tries this the next time they're down a couple goals in a game.
All I can say is you're thinking way too much, and being way... way too creative and open minded.
Honestly, I'm done posting what 'I think' we should do. Roy seems to do the opposite of what the collective fan base thinks he is going to do or should do.
I absolutely hate his decisions, at about a 3 to 1 ratio tbh.
The funny thing is... A lot of time 'us fans' have been right, as it pertains to Everberg, Redmond, and other roster decisions. Some of this stuff is not brain surgery either. He continues to play less skilled players with more experience rather than let the youth take over the team.
You see it in who he calls up, you see it in Iginla getting the A instead of Duchene, and you see it in how he deploys his roster on nightly basis.
Hes only recently started to cut Guenin and Holden's minutes, and whala what is happening? Our defense is actually not killing us in games to the level that it was.
How long did he take to change the system??
Roy has been late to the ******* party on a lot of decisions that people had been calling for, and the fan base has been right collectively on a lot of things. The fans are not geniuses either, most of this stuff has been blatantly obvious.
I'd even say injecting three AHL players and their energy into the lineup had a positive effect on the team. For them to be one of our best lines in the first period was quite telling IMO.
Basically, I don't expect anything that makes sense to happen until it's the last ******* thing to try.
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