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K.McC#24 Messages: 2827
Registered: March 2004
Location: ALBERTA
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RDOilerfan wrote on Thu, 06 May 2021 16:17 |
Adam wrote on Thu, 06 May 2021 16:06 |
Kr55 wrote on Thu, 06 May 2021 15:58 |
Adam wrote on Thu, 06 May 2021 14:07 | Thanks for coming out Bouchard - see you next season.
You'd think Barrie or Larsson could maybe take a night off, given we're sailing down the stretch, but I guess not. Serves Bouch right for not getting McDavid in on that goal.
Earlier this week we salted away our playoff spot. Last night Montreal's loss confirmed us as no lower than 3rd, and even an OT/SO loss tonight would guarantee us 2nd. A win keeps the dream alive for the outside chance of catching Toronto for #1 in the Division.
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Jim Matheson @jimmathesonnhl
Listening to Dave Tippett today, it seems he's more than happy with first three right D--Barrie, Larsson, Bear--and even though Bouchard played a strong 20 mins Tuesday, unless one of his top 3 right-side guys gets hurt, Bouchard won't play rest of regular season.
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Gotta just keep marinating...
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There is only 6 defense spots, so who are you not playing so Bouchard gets full time mins?
No one has gotten hurt thankfully and when Bear was, he played.
Even though he's a left shot, they got rid of Russell. He's was sat out as soon as Kulikov was ready.
Lagesson isn't playing either.
So people can't blame the coach for playing inferior dmen. He has 20 career games.
He's not a better dman than Nurse.
While a different type of dman and does different things, he's not better than Larsson.
He's not better than Kulikov.
Plus 2 out of the 3 of them shoot left. If someone is going to suggest any of those 3 shouldn't play for Bouchard, then I would question if you are being serious and if you know what you are talking about. You sure as hell aren't going to play Bouchard over any of them in the playoffs.
Barrie is a similar dman to Bouchard. Barrie has 44 pts and 580 more games than Bouchard. Now I think for next season Bouchard probably takes over Barrie's spot but right not, he's not better than Barrie who has 580 more games of experience and experience counts especially the playoffs.
So now it's down to Jones or Bear. So who's sitting out?
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Jones for at least the 4th time, either/or actually. Effing guy if he's up ALL season developing here, should get some damn looks. Considering the way some guys have played and still played when maybe they shouldn't have (pretty much everyone outside of Nurse and Barrie at different points), the fact that Bouchard had a wasted year of development here and hardly got a sniff was pretty pathetic. You sit down vets that you're not worried about their development, not guys who need playing time. Clearly if Bouchard wasn't getting anything here they needed to send him to Bakersfield.
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