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Originally Posted by Bingo
Valimaki was a tire fire in training camp ... he was awful.
He was worse than Mackey, and Meloche, in the pecking order, and that coupled with his invisible play in the AHL the previous season and a higher contract had him a) the best guy to cut and b) a somewhat unlikely guy to be claimed.
Don't see the point in grinding on this one. The right call was made at the time. Period.
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I wanted to be able to defend him this year, but he was flat out AWFUL in the pre-season. No bad deployments, no Sutter bias, no partner to blame- he looked like a confused junior. Totally awful.