He dominated the junior league, against a WJC team theres a hole different story.

But if he said himself that he wanted to stay and if hes game has been picking up lately (havent seen a full game for a long time, here in sweden the game starts in the middle of the night) then he should be better of getting some premium minutes with the top lines. Looking forward to see him tomorrow night against the caps


I hear what youre saying about our first line. Acctually our biggest logjam is at center. Filppula is to good to play a 3rd C role, so is Johnson. Sure filppula isnt as dominant as last year (i was kind of suprised he was in the bottom of our teams +-) but he still makes great plays.
Then we have Boyle and Namestikov so moving Filpp to wing is a natural move but its not ideal for the team tampa has this year.
- Cloud

Stats wise he may not have dominated the WJC last year, but he was among the scoring leaders and quite often the most dangerous player on the ice. He's NHL ready, improving, we are a playoff caliber team... Quite frankly I don't see any benefit to sending him to play against teenagers when he is doing quite well against grown men

I'd like to be able to tell you that I knew what diffuse means , but I can't lol

To me , and I've seen it been said here too , our 3rd line and our 2nd line don't have much differences , it's the 1st line that we should see higher performance from and be able to distinguish that top line from the other 2 . With a superstar like stamkos there's no reason we can't have an extremely explosive too line that dominates every line .. And I'm not seeing that from our top line , I like stamkos and I like Callahan and I like Killorn too he's one of my favorites but I don't think he should be on a top line with stamkos andcallahan, put another offensive exploding talent up there with Callahan by them and I think that would be a great top line
- RileyB77

Drouin will be there in due time

I don't. It's pretty clear that he isn't good enough to be an NHL player.
- Michael_Stuart

Not enough skill to be a top line player but a liability on the bottom lines. The heart of a champion but doesn't have any defining physical factor to put him over the top.

I really feel for Cory Conacher. Wavied again! It gotta be heartbreaking for him to keep moving around like that. Wish we had room for him here.
- Artyukhin76

I'd like to see him go to the panthers or flames I think he would be a good fit there. But I'm very surprised he has not done better he really killed it in the ahl. Montreal trains short players well maybe he should go there ?