Job well done NEB, you fought the good fight in the trade forum.
Comeau is incredibly frustrating, he's been that way his whole career. He doesn't know how to control himself during a game in terms of taking a penalty with a stupid play, he's just going to make that stupid play all the time. We have to live with this, it's been Comeau's flaw for his entire career. He disappears for large stretches, and he takes idiotic penalties. I'd absolutely scratch him if Mitchell was healthy enough to go vs Pittsburgh, but Roy won't. I don't think he'd do that to a newly signed UFA vet when he has other options (Everberg, Martinsen, Street, Wagner) to scratch.
I do however think Comeau will have a good game vs Pittsburgh because it's his old club. Just seems like the kind of guy who will play well vs old teams.
Yep, to coin a term used here far too often in Edmonton, the team looks "visually better." Now, the results were coming with that, too, up until this last game but no doubt about it in my mind the month of November has been much, much better hockey than the month of October was. If they can continue the trend of playing better hockey month by month, I'll be very happy. Even if we don't make the playoffs in the asinine Central Division, an improvement in play would be so encouraging knowing that, if they can play better hockey with our great prospects not yet here (Rantanen, Zadorov, Bigras, Bleackley, Compher, etc), I can't wait to see what they'd do when those players do in fact arrive.
