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Originally Posted by cannon7
Giordano-Brodie
Kulak-Hamilton
Russell-Wideman
Looks good to me. I roll those pairings, ~20 mins each. I play Engelland as the 7th D when playing teams like the Ducks.
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Jesus. H. Christ.
We have a guy that made the team out of camp because of Brodie's injury, and Smid's continued recovery. He did so by beating out guys like Ryan Wilson and Jakub Nakladal. This is the same guy who spent the bulk of his first pro season in the ECHL.
All of a sudden we're putting him on our second pairing with Hamilton? Ahead of Russell and/or Wideman?
Good lord, it's been two games. Even Kevin Dahl looked good for two games.
How about we pump the brakes here on where Kulak is penciled in the lineup going forward, m'kay?
For the record, I'm a fan of Kulak, but he's still very inexperienced to be playing anything more than 3rd pairing minutes, and sparingly so at that. He's still got a lot of learning to do at the NHL level. Putting him in a top 4 position where he has to face pretty stiff competition will expose him immediately. NOT a good idea.