Ideally what I would like the Canes to do here with all of this is:
1) Once Kruger and Jooris clear, send them down to the minors. If Kruger wants to go sulk back in Sweden then let him.
2) Call up any combination of Foegele, Zykov, Saarela, Roy, Gauthier, Kuokkanen.
3) Put these kids out there in place of any of Ryan, Stempniak, Rask or Nordstrom. Roll 4 lines.
If the kids are completely overmatched out there and don't belong, ship them back to Charlotte and call up someone else.
The Canes are already only scoring 1 darn goal a game. It can't get any worse out there so what the heck do we have to lose? Oh yeah...and Ronnie....there is no rule that says that our kids can only handle 6 minutes a game and need to be protected. What kind of defeatist attitude is that to take on what our prospects are capable of handling at the NHL level? How about expecting to play these kids 10 minutes a game. Have Foegele and Roy up and killing penalties, you know, like they excel at in the AHL. Have Zykov on the PP, you know, where he excels for the Checkers? Maybe a little less Derek Ryan and Lee Stempniak and Victor Rask doing nothing productive out there.
This team was so darn willing to put Hanifin, Pesce and Slavin and Aho out there playing regular minutes very quickly....now Ronnie is acting like every other prospect we have needs to be treated with kid gloves.