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I posted in the 1st game day thread with Sam in the lineup at center that I was surprised it took this long. There were some obvious situations where Sam was our next best option. Mitts absolute failure as RORs replacement was one of them. Cozens going down was another. Fortunately we have a guy who can do this when needed. It will be interesting to see how this plays out with him not on the right wall now. There’s a helluva drop off.

Or they were smart enough to realize that Sam was more valuable as our top RW than he was centering a couple of plugs on the 2nd line.

Yup, Sam is Pat Sharp 2.0. A very good winger capable of playing center reasonably well when the top center goes down. The question always was, is he more valuable to the team as one of our top wingers or as the 3rd best center on the team. Right now he’s more valuable at center. I thought we already worked through this.

This fanbase is so bipolar. Its gonna take more than a few games to see what we really have.

Have. Not of. Have. *twitch*

BTW, PA, love these.

"Harris is a bum" was a frequent Aud chant for good reason....

Skinner is a diver, but I can’t see even Skinner dropping his stick on purpose with clear ice between him and the goal. He’s taking that to the net every time.

You’re asking GA to change his spots. He’s consistent with this.

That is sad. Covid scared the hell out of us when my wife got it last month. Flu my ass.

If he’s a bad guy (and I have no idea if he is or not) I don’t want him around our team for 20 minutes of hockey, let alone 20 games. KA is going to need some intel on this. Lindy does not have a history of throwing away good players without reason.

For a few games, fine. For the balance of the season? ***** no. They don’t need a pressure cooker and bad room. If we’re moving a bunch of UFAs we’ll need players for the balance of the season and I don’t want our kids thrown into that role.

I don’t want this either. We’ve been throwing players to the wolves for almost 10 years now. We need NHL bodies.

We will need bodies if we are moving a bunch of UFA's. I just question this particular body given how his time in NJD has gone south.

He’s making a case for a head coaching job elsewhere, if nothing else. He should get interviews.

I don't know. There were some posts in another thread (maybe today?), the Amerks gameday thread maybe, indicating he's struggling.

Aaaaaand....... It it appears he hasn't looked all that good so far this season. Howinthehell do you project him on the big squad next year when he hasn't really shown anything indicating that he even belongs in the AHL this year? Madness, GA. Weird, recklessly confident madness.

Yup. For all his faults, Lindy always appeared to me to be a good judge of players to trust on his team. This guy may be the right talent, but if he's the wrong person I don't want him near Tank gen2 kids.

Saw Ruff’s response to the waiver. Seems to me there are red flags waving in the wind re: Gusev. I don’t know what the deal is, but Lindy sure doesn’t seem to care if he isn’t around. That’s enough for me to lose interest.

Shades of Buffalo defencemen against the Canes. At least it’s not the playoffs this time. Maybe now the team will over correct and get some frickin centers.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

Pretty much the same reaction from me until I opened the thread. No excitement. No anger. No angst. Nothing.

Good thing we have center depth.

I am honestly surprised it took this long.