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Originally Posted by REDVAN
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.
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I think earlier on they had him paired with Kulak for a while and then later on he was more and more with Bartkowski.
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
Bartkowski actually looked fine playing on the left side with Stone once they were deployed as the third pairing in the pre-season. I awn not terribly worried about them.
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I'm not worried as much as I just don't really like watching Bartkowski play the game. He's a #7 dman who was on an AHL deal last season before the expansion draft required us to sign him for 2yrs. I just don't like watching players that are not young enough to improve and are tweeners struggling to maintain depth roles in the league. If he's the 7 I don't mind that, and to be fair it's one game but I get the impression he will be playing more often then not.
Like I said, in the original post, I get that Kulak didn't necessarily grab the opportunity and run with it but I still would like to develop younger guys in these depth roles since we have high end guys to insulate them.