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Originally Posted by Big Earl
We need cody hodgson if we play against rangers in the finals at the same time we need kassian against boston. Since he has the "dont give a fuck" mentality to go after players like marchand. He will intent to injury players too!
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Sure, that's if:
1. Kassian makes the line up and
2. AV is an situation (in a game) where he can afford not pushing the top 2 lines out there in an alternating manner.
You have to remember, we traded away guys like Hordichuk or Glass because toughness alone can't guarantee you into the bottom lines, you actually have to be good as well. If Kassi can't put up numbers with little minutes he'll get playing in the bottom 2 lines, he ain't playing in the playoffs to protect anyone.
To me, it seems like he's the bigger gamble than CoHo. At least with CoHo, we know what we're going to get, and it's good. I never really thought we needed toughness. If we wanted someone to fight Marchand or the likes, we had Bieksa that was playing over 20m. IMO, the answer really wasn't that we needed to give up skill for tougness, it was really more of our skill needed to get tougher.
But hey, who am I to convince the Sedins that they shouldn't just take punches from junior like a bunch of sissies. I don't see them changing or stepping up as battlers so...
Can't get clouded the great moves that Gillis has made. He's also made some bad decisions (the Sundin 2 yr offer that we were lucky he didn't take, Ballard not being a fit). To me it seems like the franchise never had a good relationship with Cody what with the drama of Cody not cracking the line up the last 2 season and the drama about how unsatisfied Cody was with how the team treated his injuries that he needed to seek medical help on his own (because he doubted the team doctor's had his best interest in mind).
In retrospect, it just feels like this 1 season he made the line up as a regular (but playing basement minutes) was just nothing more than just an attempt to up his value to be jettisonned. Not that I'm right, but it's just how it looks.