I trust this management group implicitly at this point, but is there a reason we aren't just playing Wotherspoon?
If we wanted to, say, call him up during the playoffs, we only have two callups left. We can't play the call-up/send-down game with him right now because of that. Rather keep him down and call him up when we actually need him. No point risking him be a healthy scratch like they've done to Poirier (SMH... Emile's getting the Sven treatment)
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The insurance would be if they are in 'maybe' situation. Rather than having to use a recall just in case they have an option to either be an emergency short term fill in or ride out a game where someone is 50-50.
If it's an actual spot to fill I bet they still call someone up.
Kinda smart.
Edit: what granteedEV said
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Don't mind the signing. Has experience and can probably help in the room. Anything to get Diaz off the ice.
That's the second time this has been said in this thread, but I don't get it. Like dissentowner said, Diaz has been nothing but a revelation outside his first handful of games.
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That's the second time this has been said in this thread, but I don't get it. Like dissentowner said, Diaz has been nothing but a revelation outside his first handful of games.
IMO he was pretty bad most of the year, got pretty good with some added ice time lately, especially as a power play guy, and had an awful game against the Ducks.
If we wanted to, say, call him up during the playoffs, we only have two callups left. We can't play the call-up/send-down game with him right now because of that. Rather keep him down and call him up when we actually need him. No point risking him be a healthy scratch like they've done to Poirier (SMH... Emile's getting the Sven treatment)
Poirer hasn't been called out in the media by Burke yet so I don't think that is the case.
There is no saying that a prospect is better off playing 10 AHL games than they are playing 5 NHL games and getting accustomed to playing in the NHL by hanging around the team during a playoff push.
I think it was Derek Wills who tweeted the other day that someone trying to hit Johnny is like trying to hug fog.
With reference back to Brad McCrimmon's desciption of trying to play the body on Gretzky.
He was too quick for the Ducks and trying to hit Gaudreau was, as Brad McCrimmon once said of trying to put the body on Wayne Gretzky, “like hugging fog.”
Forgot he is a monster. No complaints on the try out really. Preserving he last two call ups is a savvy move IMO. I can think of worse guys to bring on for insurance on the bottom pairing.
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That's the second time this has been said in this thread, but I don't get it. Like dissentowner said, Diaz has been nothing but a revelation outside his first handful of games.
The guy is soft along the boards and turns the puck over regularly. He is our weakest defender IMO.
