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Posted
9 minutes ago, Brawndo said:

Per AHL Transactions Page and NHL 

OK, so Krebs goes back to the 4th line.  But does Kulich center the 3rd line?  Know that technically Kulich is a C, but he hasn't played there at the NHL level.  Do they keep Krebs 3rd line C and bump either Quinn or Kulich onto the 4th line with Lafferty at C there?  Does anybody other than the 4 guys that have been seeing time at C besides Thompson have C in his NHL past?  We seem to be looking at a 3C - 9W situation.  (Which doesn't QUITE work.)

Am presuming that Aube-Kubel is the odd man out and not Quinn.  (Not sure if that's a great call, but A-K is the 1st guy to have his butt stapled to the bench when the bench shortens and Quinn is, for now, on the top PP unit.)

Posted
3 minutes ago, Big Guava said:

Guess he won't be back the game after this one

Not necessarily, players can be placed on IR retroactively.  So, this just means that he'll necessarily miss the Filly game.  They don't play in LA until Wednesday (9 days after the Habs game) so even getting IR'd if Tage is good to go by then he can be activated.  And Ruff doesn't seem to be happy with Aube-Kubel, so Kulich gets the call-up.

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Posted
Just now, LGR4GM said:

Jordan Greenway may also miss the Philly game. 

And Aube-Kubel is saved from the pressbox once again.

(And they have 4C's dressed if he is playing as the 12th F as Krebs and Lafferty won't be on the same line (at least until Ruff shortens the bench).)

Posted
1 hour ago, Taro T said:

Not necessarily, players can be placed on IR retroactively.  So, this just means that he'll necessarily miss the Filly game.  They don't play in LA until Wednesday (9 days after the Habs game) so even getting IR'd if Tage is good to go by then he can be activated.  And Ruff doesn't seem to be happy with Aube-Kubel, so Kulich gets the call-up.

There must be some reason they choose Tage over UPL. I hope it means he’s back for the next game. But then again, if that’s the case, why not just send Levi down?

Posted
17 minutes ago, shrader said:

There must be some reason they choose Tage over UPL. I hope it means he’s back for the next game. But then again, if that’s the case, why not just send Levi down?

Could be either he's closer to week to week than Lukkonnen is or they figure that if tomorrow morning they find out one or both of them is feeling well enough to play they'd rather it be UPL they get back into the lineup if they can only have 1.

Thought that after the Moe-ray-all game that Ruff said they'd taken UPL out as a precautionary measure - he hadn't felt right the day before but he felt well enough to play so they went with him (implying it could be an illness and not an injury; perhaps am reading too much into Ruff's Monday comments) but decided to pull him for the 3rd; which would also imply that UPL is/was closer to being good to go than Thompson.

Posted
31 minutes ago, Taro T said:

Could be either he's closer to week to week than Lukkonnen is or they figure that if tomorrow morning they find out one or both of them is feeling well enough to play they'd rather it be UPL they get back into the lineup if they can only have 1.

Thought that after the Moe-ray-all game that Ruff said they'd taken UPL out as a precautionary measure - he hadn't felt right the day before but he felt well enough to play so they went with him (implying it could be an illness and not an injury; perhaps am reading too much into Ruff's Monday comments) but decided to pull him for the 3rd; which would also imply that UPL is/was closer to being good to go than Thompson.

I’ll be honest, I just want to get a goalie out of here. Carrying 3 is by far my most hated roster decision. 

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Posted
2 hours ago, Taro T said:

OK, so Krebs goes back to the 4th line.  But does Kulich center the 3rd line?  Know that technically Kulich is a C, but he hasn't played there at the NHL level.  Do they keep Krebs 3rd line C and bump either Quinn or Kulich onto the 4th line with Lafferty at C there?  Does anybody other than the 4 guys that have been seeing time at C besides Thompson have C in his NHL past?  We seem to be looking at a 3C - 9W situation.  (Which doesn't QUITE work.)

Am presuming that Aube-Kubel is the odd man out and not Quinn.  (Not sure if that's a great call, but A-K is the 1st guy to have his butt stapled to the bench when the bench shortens and Quinn is, for now, on the top PP unit.)

Nope.  Kulich should still play wing.  I would not put him at center, he has only played wing in the NHL. . 

Posted
50 minutes ago, Pimlach said:

Nope.  Kulich should still play wing.  I would not put him at center, he has only played wing in the NHL. . 

Wasn't anticipating Greenway to possibly be out.  If he is, then they have 4 "regular" C's as Lafferty takes the 4th line and Krebs the 3rd.  Was expecting Aube-Kubel being out and Ruff putting the regular 4th line back together like he did last night.  With Greenway out, one of Benson, Quinn, or more likely Kulich takes his spot on a very hodgepodge 3rd line (Zucker - Krebs - Kulich most likely).

Posted
3 hours ago, PerreaultForever said:

They are so weird with injury reporting. He goes from "might play Thursday" to placed on IR after not playing. It seems every year there's injuries where we are just wondering wtf is it?

All it means is that he’s not ready and they need to free a roster spot to call him up. As taro said earlier, it only rules him out for just this one game. 

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Posted (edited)
15 hours ago, Taro T said:

Not necessarily, players can be placed on IR retroactively.  So, this just means that he'll necessarily miss the Filly game.  They don't play in LA until Wednesday (9 days after the Habs game) so even getting IR'd if Tage is good to go by then he can be activated.  And Ruff doesn't seem to be happy with Aube-Kubel, so Kulich gets the call-up.

Ah...gotcha...so it's mostly a move to allow them to call up Kulich?

 

Keep forgetting hockey and baseball have a retroactive IR whereas the NFL does not.

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