Injury Report: Daniel Alfredsson

[Shanny]

Originally Posted by aragorn

With the injury to Neil & the return of Alfredson I think this could be the lineup tomorrow night.

Michalek - Spezza - Alfredson
Greening - Da Costa - Butler
Foligno - Z. Smith - Condra
Daugavins - Konopka - Winchester

Cowen - Gonchar
Kuba - Karlsson
Phillips - Rundblad

Anderson - Auld

I think there is a good chance Lee plays tomorrow night, as well as Auld possibly getting the start either tomorrow or on Saturday.

this is what MacLean should be rolling with:

Greener-Spezz-9 MM
Nicky-DC-Alfie
Rooster-Smitty-Butsy
Winny-Zee-hockey player

Kubs-EK
Cowy-Gonch
Rig-Lee

Andy
Bauld

[MandyAlwaysKnows]

Originally Posted by Shanny

which is to no surprise given the fact that he's only seen about 6-8 minutes a game so far, while Butler has been given a free pass to the second line.

Filatov played on the first line at the start and was invisible

Originally Posted by sensjersey11

Apparently, according to CapGeek, Butler is waiver exempt.


I know, it blew my mind, too.

Originally Posted by armani

Wrong and wrong and somewhat right. Butler has played more, and played even more terribly. He is also waiver exempt. Both him and Filatov deserve AHL time right now.

I picked up the Butler waiver eligibility on HF, so really other posters are wrong not myself. Still Filatov is two way and should be in Bingo over Butler.

Maybe Filatov has been better defensively than Butler. But Butler has definitely more more involved offensively.

[Shanny]

Originally Posted by 19sens11

Filatov played on the first line at the start and was invisible

It's almost impossible to judge a player after only 2 games of top line minutes(limited at that), every good thing takes time, Butler has played over 10 games(including preseason) and has been nothing short of terrible so far. So in terms of Filatov being more invisible then Butler so far..yes, he has....for better reasons though.

[cheerupmurray]

As a outsider that have watch quite a lot of Ottawa this season I got to say Bobby Butler isn't my favourite player from your team. He seems pretty useless unless he scores. Filatov at least have some exciting moves, Butler has? (well perhaps a scoring touch).

[MandyAlwaysKnows]

Originally Posted by Shanny

It's almost impossible to judge a player after only 2 games of top line minutes(limited at that), every good thing takes time, Butler has played over 10 games(including preseason) and has been nothing short of terrible so far. So in terms of Filatov being more invisible then Butler so far..yes, he has....for better reasons though.

Agree to disagree. There is a reason why Filatov only got two on the top line. There is a reason why he only gets 5 min a night. He doesn't deserve more.

That's not to say Butler does though, but he's been more involved. He goes to the net better. Filatov is softer than he is and that's saying something. I didn't get to watch the game last night, was Butler exceptionally bad?

[Cujomi]

I would love to see Butler gone. However this is likely to be our line-up:

Colin Greening - Jason Spezza - Milan Michalek
Nick Foligno - Stephane Da Costa - Daniel Alfredsson
Kaspars Daugavins - Zack Smith - Bobby Butler
Erik Condra - Jesse Winchester - Chris Neil

You know, it's not actually half bad.

[Micklebot]

Originally Posted by 19sens11

Agree to disagree. There is a reason why Filatov only got two on the top line. There is a reason why he only gets 5 min a night. He doesn't deserve more.

That's not to say Butler does though, but he's been more involved. He goes to the net better. Filatov is softer than he is and that's saying something. I didn't get to watch the game last night, was Butler exceptionally bad?

I thought he was fairly involved in the play, but either lost the puck behind him, or lost battles all night long.

The effort seemed there, maybe just the timing was off

[Xspyrit]

Give Butler a bit of time, he is slowly getting into game shape

He didn't do much in his first 10 games last year as well. This situation reminds me of Kuba last year, although a bit different. Butler wasn't 100% ready both mentally and physically, then got injured. Hard to pick up your game fast after that

All that being said, I don't think Butler is in our long-term plans, but could be a nice stop-gap while other prospects develop. We might even get something in return down the road. Let's make him a good asset. We don't need scapegoats in a rebuilding season.

Originally Posted by aragorn

With the injury to Neil & the return of Alfredson I think this could be the lineup tomorrow night.

Michalek - Spezza - Alfredson
Greening - Da Costa - Butler
Foligno - Z. Smith - Condra
Daugavins - Konopka - Winchester

Cowen - Gonchar
Kuba - Karlsson
Phillips - Rundblad

Anderson - Auld

Greening not on Spezza's line is a total waste of a spot in the top-6

Greening - Spezza - Michalek
Foligno - Da Costa - Alfredsson
Daugavins - Smith - Butler
Winchester - Konopka - Condra

Cowen - Gonchar
Kuba - Karlsson
Phillips - Rundblad

Anderson - Auld


When Regin is back, he draws in Foligno spot, who draws in Daugavins spot

[DrEasy]

Originally Posted by Xspyrit

Greening not on Spezza's line is a total waste of a spot in the top-6

Greening - Spezza - Michalek
Foligno - Da Costa - Alfredsson
Daugavins - Smith - Butler
Winchester - Konopka - Condra

Cowen - Gonchar
Kuba - Karlsson
Phillips - Rundblad

Anderson - Auld


When Regin is back, he draws in Foligno spot, who draws in Daugavins spot

I like those lines. Maybe I'd put Condra on the third line instead of Butler. Condra is a bit wasted on the 4th line, while Butler could use a wake-up call, and maybe it's good for Butler to be asked to play a simple game with max energy and little ice time until he's back on track.