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Originally Posted by Jore
lol thanks. just frustrated. it just seems so obvious that he's an ahler at best. in the summer i didn't think (perhaps naively) that he'd still be in the line-up at this point of this season. people who watch the ahl see a future number 1 in andersson, and he's in the right statistical range. and yet... we get to watch bartkowski skate his way to another 30% possession night
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Kulak might be enough to hold Bart's head above water. He was, after all, the only defencemen to ever play significant minutes 5v5 with Deryk Engelland and stay in the positive. Albeit barely, but still. This includes Brodie. I believe that the 3rd pairing staying in the positive in terms of possession recently can be strongly attributed to Brett.
I'm very disappointed we will be waiting to see Andersson, but there's a lot of factors in play holding him out of tonight's game. Travel notice, he played Thursday same time as us, they want him to watch from above, the Smith puckhandling factor, etc. Plus you want him to be confident once he takes to the ice. You need a certain amount of swagger to be a defenceman in the NHL.