[News] Flames recall Klapka and Barrie

[Karl]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Everyone loves Lomberg, but the plain fact is he's just as bad at hockey as Rooney, plus he doesn't play centre or PK.

There's no one to replace Rooney at centre right now. Kerins was just not good enough on the draw and like it or not, faceoffs are a big part of coach's decisions these days it seems. When Zary comes back Rooney is out I bet. You can have:

Huberdeau-Kadri-Pelletier
Coronato-Backlund-Coleman
Kuzmenko-Zary-Sharangovich
Lomberg/Hunt/Kerins/Strongren/Bishop-Pospisil-Klapka

Pelletier can replace Rooney on the PK.

That does nothing to help Rooney's case because Rooney does not even help in that aspect either. I believe Rooney is only at about 47% in the faceoff dot. So he's very much no good at that too.

Rooney is this team's weakest link. Good bye Roondawg.

[Enoch Root]

Originally Posted by GioforPM

Everyone loves Lomberg, but the plain fact is he's just as bad at hockey as Rooney, plus he doesn't play centre or PK.

There's no one to replace Rooney at centre right now. Kerins was just not good enough on the draw and like it or not, faceoffs are a big part of coach's decisions these days it seems. When Zary comes back Rooney is out I bet. You can have:

Huberdeau-Kadri-Pelletier
Coronato-Backlund-Coleman
Kuzmenko-Zary-Sharangovich
Lomberg/Hunt/Kerins/Strongren/Bishop-Pospisil-Klapka

Pelletier can replace Rooney on the PK.

Lomberg was an important piece in FLA's cup. And every player in the room will say he's a very important part of this team. There is more to the game than stats.