I came to post "I think Cassidy has had enough of DeBrusk" before i saw this. I dont know what the deeper numbers say, but my eyes tell me that Frederic and Studnicka have been noticeably improving week-by-week. And while I dont know how high Bjork's ceiling is, he, too, has been playing harder in the last couple of weeks. Worse than being bad, DeBrusk has been non-noticeable, other than the fact that he is being outplayed by 3 guys who have been on various bubbles the last few weeks.Ugh, Tinordi is still in. And they are sticking Vaakanainen with him. That's no place for a kid who you are trying to develop and hope has a future with the organization. You're supposed to try to put them in a position to succeed. Just baffling decision making. I guess they think maybe Tinordi will punch Matt Martin or something? John Moore isn't a savior by any stretch but he's far more useful than Tinordi and can actually keep up with the play and help transition the puck. Poor Vaakanainen is going to have to do all the work getting puck out of the zone.
Also, Butch is pretty fired up at DeBrusk. I can't remember him ever publicly criticizing a player this harshly:
View: https://twitter.com/ConorRyan_93/status/1369326761473957894?s=20
Couldn’t it just as simple as Cassidy & Sweeney think they’re a little too soft around the net after Miller got hurt? Moore is better than Tinordi, but not in the area that they feel that they need. Personally, I think they both suck, and I want them off the roster as soon as possible.Is Sweeney forcing Cassidy to use Tinordi? Seems like we get one of these "reclamation projects" every year with this team, giving minutes that'd better be used getting reps in for actual reserve players like Moore or Kampfer, or assessing prospects. (Granted, with Zboril and Vaak already up the cupboard is pretty bare there.) Either way, Tinordi looks like an ECHL defenseman out there and it's baffling why a team with competitive aspirations is continuing to play him.
As far as Jake DeBrusk goes, isn't this who he's always been? He's a non-factor for dozens of games, gets put on blast, then goes on a scoring tear that gets everyone's hopes up then goes cold again. I'd love to think that he's close to "figuring out" whatever he needs to be a consistent player, but it's been years now.
This. And it is going to be interesting to see what Sweeney does at the deadline.Couldn’t it just as simple as Cassidy & Sweeney think they’re a little too soft around the net after Miller got hurt? Moore is better than Tinordi, but not in the area that they feel that they need. Personally, I think they both suck, and I want them off the roster as soon as possible.
That is a possibility.I really don’t think DeBrusk has been right since that Kadri hit.
Where are you getting that he’s hurt? I haven’t seen anything about it, he could just be getting the night off completely. They did this at least one other time this year.Has anyone seen a confirmation on how Tuukka got hurt? I had thought at the time he may have been hit by Wood on a rush (again) in the NJ game, but play continued and they didn't really comment on it at all. He looked injured coming off the ice at the end of the game.
Wahlstrom boarded Clifton and Marchand did the right thingMarchand was throwing punches with someone who I did not see throw any punches
I'm afraid this is true. Scoring chances are systematically minimized on both ends. It's not play to win hockey. Our goaltending should beat theirs. If it doesn't, bummer.They can hold anyone to 1 or 2 goals.
Problem is they can't score 2 or 3 against good defensive teams.