Thursday practice notes
The first thing to note is traffic from the Valley is much better for morning practices than 2:45 starts. Ugh.
So Rob Blake wasn't anywhere in the building during practice today. But, before you get too excited, Crawford said Blake was there working out in the morning. Crawford said Blake would be re-evaluated either tomorrow or over the weekend. ``He's not going to play this weekend, at least not the first part of it,'' Crawford said. So it sounds like Blake is definitely out for Friday and likely out for Saturday. ``He feels pretty good and I don't imagine it's going to be much longer,'' Crawford said.
Nagy didn't practice. Crawford said his improvement has been slower. Crawford said he has had two procedures on the neck, though he couldn't elaborate, and that he wears a neck brace while driving.
Scott Thornton also is banged up and left practice early. He isn't expected to be available tomorrow.
With none of those injured players returning, it makes one wonder why Moulson and Harrold were sent down.
``We want to make sure those guys are playing,'' Crawford said. ``So I think that’s probably the reason they went down. We thought we had a few guys closer to being able to play. Willsie is able to play. Thornton, who had been injured, looked like he was ready to play but tried today and wasn’t ready.''
Some veteran players were given the option to take practice off. Frolov and Cammalleri took Crawford up on the offer. So, if you're wondering which players have multiple girls ... I kid, I kid.
I'll have interviews coming up with Cloutier and Boyle, along with Crawford's full interview.
I would like to see DL take Brad Stuart off the trading block.
These last few weeks, Stuart has been our best D-man. He's been playing as good as a D-man is expected to play.
I hope DL offers him a new multi-year contract. Dump Lubo-cookie instead.
The same can be said for Nagy. When he's on his game, he can potentially be a point a game player. I wish he was offered a 4 year contract instead of Handzus. From day one, I knew the Handzus signing was bad news. He's the common example of money being wasted.
Finally, can anyone shed some light as to why DL hasn't signed Sully to a new contract. I know he's a RFA, but I wouldn't take any chances with GM's like Kevin Lowe-Life who loves to throw alot money to these kind of players.
Remember the Dustin Penner incident. Ask Brian Burke how he still feels about that.
Cammy's played like shit since he came back, and he takes the day off? cute. nice leadership.
Willsie and Thornton would play before Moulson? Man these guys are frustrating.
Thornton sits 1/2 the games anyway and Willsie has sucked here.
Let the kids play.