Preissing on benching
Tom Preissing was made a healthy scratch last Saturday against Dallas. Crawford said at the time that the move was more to get Kevin Dallman in a game than to send a message to Preissing. However, Preissing said his poor play was part of the reason.
``Whether he was trying to or not, it obviously said something about my game,'' Preissing said. ``If I was playing well, I probably wouldn’t be out of that game. There's kind of two ways to look at it, you can take a positive out of it and try build from there or you can just get more frustrated or upset with it. I took as positive and I'm trying to play a better game from here on out.
``As much as its not fun, sometimes being able to sit out and watch the game from a higher level kind of makes you realize the game isn’t as hard as you think it is when you're not playing well. I think the biggest thing for me is I was overthinking, which is an easy thing to do when you’re not playing well.''
Preissing has been one of DL's better acquisitions. For DL that's rare.
He shouldn't have been benched.
If anyone, it should be Blake. He's becoming 100% useless.
Can DL trade him and his $6 Million for a 6th or 7th round draft pick. Or maybe enen Future Considerations,
and never collect on it, And call it even.
I can't believe that Blake and Hanzus are getting paid $10 Million. And between them they have 2 goals (one empty net) and a Minus -15.
What a terrible shame. And don't forget the McCauley and Cloutier debacle.
Does our G.M. have a brain.
I wonder.
Yeah, especially at the salary he makes!
Ugh!
3.75 for Nagy who needed a benching and now Preissing.
Maybe hanging out at the beach with hot SoCal women is NOT the right thing to do.
No wonder Zdeno Chara's wife nixed him coming to the Kings.
Hate to agree with anthony, but that's alot of money being blown on nothing.
reading these comments reminds me of why "true" hockey fans in North America consider west coast hockey fans the least knowledgeable about the game and the most annoying - an why many NHL players would not consider playing here - regardless of their overprotective wives.
Good point scooter...
I don't know if I agree or disagree with benching him but he clearly isn't playing up to par in my opinion. The thing that bugs me the most is that Priessing said he was going to play hard from now on. Why the hell weren't you already?!?!?!