No reason to pay Wallmark an NHL salary for the next 2 days when nothing is happening. Also no reason to call anyone skilled up again if they are going to skate with Nordstrom and PDG for 6 minutes.
No reason to pay Wallmark an NHL salary for the next 2 days when nothing is happening. Also no reason to call anyone skilled up again if they are going to skate with Nordstrom and PDG for 6 minutes.
And no reason to call up ANYBODY if you're going to be satisfied to keep rolling Rask out there to center a line while he's playing like he did over the last two games. Holy crap, we've got issues.
Aho's group didn't show up in OT until half way through. Even Tripp pointed that out. I'm fully convinced that Bill Peters is a complete idiot.
Side note ... we also ended up with the 3rd and 4th lines matched up against Hall's line like 5 or 6 times yesterday. Other than in isolated circumstances that shouldn't be happening.
And Ryan. He hasn't had a point since 1/25 and has 4 points this calendar year. But Peters rolled him out for 20 minutes last night, the most he's played all year. Had he not played OT, he still would have been at 18:15, the 6th highest of the season.
Again, Francis needs to send Ryan somewhere at the trade deadline and get him out of Bill Peter's hands. The man apparently just cannot help himself.
I'm OK with Ryan as the 4th line center. He's a righty and leads the team in faceoff winning %. But, as you say, as long as Peters sees him on the bench, he's going to overslot him. It's just ridiculous that he played 1:45 of OT last night.
The 9000 kids in attendance at today's practice was a thing of beauty. The kids loved it, and the players appeared to have a blast. They should do this more often. Go check out the videos if you haven't seen them.
, tomorrow night it will be 10k Canes fans screaming 'SHOOT!' during the PP....