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Originally Posted by activeStick
So losing a 12 goal, 24 point guy is a bigger issue than fans want to admit?
I don't buy it. He's a replacement level player and his loss has a negligible impact to the roster and team.
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Ths problem isn't that we lost Alex Chiasson. It's that the coach didn't replace his role with the right players. Versteeg and Bennett had a revolving door of RWers for the first 8 games with the only NHLer being Jagr (Ferland is an NHLer, but wasn't on that particular night). Lazar is below replacement level. Brouwer, if he is replacement level, already bombed his 60 game audition with those two.
On the PK, Bennett-Chiasson was an extremely strong PK unit for us last year and Bouma-Stajan was our other unit(not so good) while Monahan-Brouwer was our 'last resort' unit. Now we have downgraded Bouma to Brouwer and Chiasson to Glass.
It's easy to replace Chiasson with Freddie Hamilton or Mark Jankowski. We just have elected not to.