RDOilerfan wrote on Mon, 26 April 2021 14:42

Kr55 wrote on Mon, 26 April 2021 14:30 Daniel Nugent-Bowman @DNBsports "If you're a young guy, you want to get thrown into the fire, so you might as well embrace it." -- Dave Tippett on Ryan McLeod getting into games during a playoff race. Bouchard: I keep asking the question every single time Bouchard is brought up. Who are you sitting? Nurse - Barrie Kulikov - Larsson Jones - Bear They just got rid of Russell so there isn't that choice anymore. So who?

There were many periods with Jones/Bear struggling badly where he could have got games. We've also had periods where we barely played our depth lines and could have iced 7 D like many teams have done this season.

Tippett has done some ridiculous lineup decisions in the name of making sure players don't sit too long, yet that doesn't apply at all for Bouchard. The takeaway for me is simply that Tippett doesn't trust Bouchard as a player yet or he would have made an effort to get some play time in for him. So, he really shouldn't be up here.

"We need to get better immediately. That starts today"
- Lowe, 2013

"Next year I would forecast as another developmental year"
- MacT, 2015

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