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Originally Posted by SeanCharles
Not to be a downer but it frustrates me that Bartkowski is in the opening game lineup. We have a solid top 5 and we can have a 6th guy insulated by the group as a whole and it just bugs me that Bart is the guy in that role.
I get that most of the young lefties didn't perform as well at camp, outside of maybe Kyllington and Valimaki - both of which made sense to send back down - but I would much rather see someone else there. I get Andersson going back as well but even though Kulak struggled in preseason I would much rather see him out there.
The whole forward debacle is one thing I know will get sorted out in time and Jankowski will push his way onto the roster but I'm just sick of watch Bart on the team. He makes errors that rookies would make so it frustrates me that he gets to play ahead of them. Is his intangibles of being gritty that much more valuable? Maybe but not in my eyes..
Sorry for the negativity as I am stoked hockey is back but outside of the excitement around the new acquisitions of Hamonic and Jagr and to a lesser extent Smith and Glass I really wanted to be excited about a young player on the opening night lineup. Even if it was just Kulak.
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I didn't pay much attention in pre-season. So forgive me this question.
Who did Stone play with? And were any of the bottom guys playing paired with him?
I think some of who is playing has to be dependent on Stone. The guy is a 4/5 d-man, so he's not the calibre of player who is going to cover a lot of the others mistakes in positioning. Playing Bartkowski tonight might just be a case of them knowing each other, and as injuries and chemistry develops, things will change.