Lake Erie 4 vs. Marlies 0: Lowlights

remember though, Gards played almost a whole season in his rookie season in the NHL. ahl is different as most games are on the weekends giving a week to recoup……i cant see Gards missing any games while being healthy…..IMO

That’s absolutely correct and is what I’m saying here actually. He’s never played a full season (NHL or AHL) before last year and with a short summer to boot, I can definitely see Dallas sitting him to avoid that scenario again. Will he sit as often as the lesser pairings, no and maybe he won’t sit at all. But I won’t be crying foul if he is rotated out occasionally. I get what djamon is saying in that this is a development league and the young guys should be playing as often as possible but this season is a different beast, expectations are high and we have a glut of players to get in and out the line-up. Also, if players like Gards and Holzer were in the NHL as they most likely would have been, players like Blacker would be in on a regular basis. Again, this season is a different beast altogether and it’ll be interesting to see how Eakins handles it moving forward.

 Monsters played 3 in a row and back to back games is the definition of the AHL schedule. Not to suggest any one should be alarmed by a loss in the 2nd game of the season, lol.

It’s the way they lost. No aggression, no passion, not even any oushback. Scruvens was awful, and I am convinced 2 of our biggest players would curl-up in the fetal position sucking their thumb if you yelled at them.

Apparently not. Just didn’t like the passion level at all.

I guess we’ll disagree on Scrivens. With regards to last year, I did watch alot, and went to several playoff games, and that is where my concern lies. They had passion and character, which should have been supplemented with a couple of this years additions, but none was obvious today.

It’s the second game of the year and it was a back to back game, their legs were probably tired

Yeah, but it was Lake Erie’s third in three days.

As long as the best players are the ones we see on the Leafs in 3 years. It makes no sense playing the veterans just because they play better defense in Eakins’ eyes.

This is a development team…nothing else.

I agree to an extent, but guys like Hamilton Ziggomanis have carried this team a long way in the past and the young prospects can learn a lot from them.  I know that a few on here have talked about Hamilton taking Browns position, but it may never happen.

Dalas Eakins wants a job in the NHL, he will win at all costs… He isn’t going to get to the next level by giving undeserving kids icetime.

Yeah, the question is how much to play them and how much to let the kids pave their own  way.   I have to work in the morning so it’s time to hit the hay.   I always enjoy hearing different perspectives though.   Have a good night, and I hope next Friday is a better day for us all.

He’ll get there by graduating kids…that’s how Tim Hunter got his gig. Most 20 year old kids are undeserving…the idea is to change that and send them along to the Leafs. 

If he chooses to win at all costs he should be fired.