Makes sense before the oilers games. Decent fighter. Solid player too. One of Johnny's best friends. Looking forward to seeing him play. Get Lomberg back up and him Rinaldo and Lomberg would be a real throwback #### disturbing line.
Just makes me wonder what the oilers will do to counter a little. These kind of minor league fighter call ups before a big game usually go tit for tat.
Thankfully peluso is on an ahl only deal as hes the only guy they have in Lucia's weight class
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The league hasn't had a 'guy out of nowhere' story in a while. Maybe this will end up being our Nick Foligno. If he gets any time. Which he won't. Fun erased.
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Makes sense before the oilers games. Decent fighter. Solid player too. One of Johnny's best friends. Looking forward to seeing him play. Get Lomberg back up and him Rinaldo and Lomberg would be a real throwback #### disturbing line.
Just makes me wonder what the oilers will do to counter a little. These kind of minor league fighter call ups before a big game usually go tit for tat.
Thankfully peluso is on an ahl only deal as hes the only guy they have in Lucia's weight class
Plausible deniability. We did it for the St. Louis game...he was great in practice so we kept him around...
The league hasn't had a 'guy out of nowhere' story in a while. Maybe this will end up being our Nick Foligno. If he gets any time. Which he won't. Fun erased.
Fingers crossed. With the scoring drying up so much, I'm really quite eager to see what some of these PPG AHL forwards have to offer / can do here. What the hell is there to lose, and if you can find scoring internally somehow then your farm system is serving a purpose, which it should.
This seems to be a good of a place as any, to ask this question :
There always seems to be players that receive preferential treatment, mostly for underlying skills or stats, and that does make some sense. But there are other players who are less skilled, but just flat out produce. They are never given a real chance.
Buddy Robinson has worked on his game, and gone from a sub .5pt/g player to around a .75p/g player. Lots of intangibles and a right handed right winger. There are a lot of examples of players actually getting better when put in a game with a faster pace, but you never really know how a player will react until they are put in a game.
Buddy is up, but does anyone actually think that he will be given a chance to play? I don't.
And this isn't a hockey thing, it's something that happens in all sports. Multiple players who have roughly the same effect on the outcome of a game, but some players are given a long leash, and some are labeled as a failed experiment. Is it all politics?
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There are a lot of things I don’t understand about baseball. One of those things is why Derek Fisher gets multiple chances and why guys like Alford and Dalton Pompey (or for that matter Urena) don’t seem to get the same chances.
In my estimation, Alford is better than Fisher, but he's nearly out of baseball.
Is it wrong to think that Robinson might be better than Reider, if given the same opportunity? He has shown nothing but progression and work ethic.
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This seems to be a good of a place as any, to ask this question :
There always seems to be players that receive preferential treatment, mostly for underlying skills or stats, and that does make some sense. But there are other players who are less skilled, but just flat out produce. They are never given a real chance.
Buddy Robinson has worked on his game, and gone from a sub .5pt/g player to around a .75p/g player. Lots of intangibles and a right handed right winger. There are a lot of examples of players actually getting better when put in a game with a faster pace, but you never really know how a player will react until they are put in a game.
Buddy is up, but does anyone actually think that he will be given a chance to play? I don't.
And this isn't a hockey thing, it's something that happens in all sports. Multiple players who have roughly the same effect on the outcome of a game, but some players are given a long leash, and some are labeled as a failed experiment. Is it all politics?
In my estimation, Alford is better than Fisher, but he's nearly out of baseball.
Is it wrong to think that Robinson might be better than Reider, if given the same opportunity? He has shown nothing but progression and work ethic.
I hear what you are saying and tend to agree.
Sometimes players get labeled and aren’t given a fair look because the report is already out on them and they have maxed out in the eyes of the decision makers.
I also think it is unfair because Robinson might provide more than Rieder or Jankowski can.
I say give him a look cause we have 3 guys rotating in and out of the lineup alread6 anyways.
He's big, but seems to get to the right places on the ice. Has anyone seen him play, and does he get lost on the backcheck because of his skating?
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Robinson has intriguing agility for such a big man, but he's never been able to put it all together at the NHL level. A lot of big players have a problem accelerating, but Buddy has good acceleration. Perhaps that energy burned accelerating keeps him from playing the whole shift at full speed?
McDavid inspired Tkachuk to put on a herculean performance at the all star game. Prior to the game, McDavid pulled Tkachuk aside and parted some wisdom.
"Let's go" McDavid mumbled, as he shone his signature $1.98 grilled cheese of a smile.
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Eakins wasn't a bad coach, the team just had 2 bad years, they should've been more patient.
