so the one defenseman we have that can pinch and still get back, or skate it up ice with speed, gets scratched?

this is really comical
- Marc D

Exactly.. about all I got left for this team is laughs...

No one's been playing good lately. Doesn't make a lick of sense.
- mayorofangrytown

Can't scratch the entire team.

I think Berube is taking turns scratching players and hoping to send a message

He was scratched Saturday
- Jsaquella

Good point - I had to miss that game so it's a non-factor in my brain. Thanks for keeping me honest...
Think they'll just rotate who is scratched Umberger then Vinny?

They wouldn't touch him now with a ten foot pole.
- FlyersGrace

VLC and a 20 foot pole for an 8X10 glossy of Savard, Lapointe, and Robinson.

Irrelevant topic but I was thinking about current players that will make the HoF and here's what I got:

Definite: Jagr, Crosby, Ovechkin, Thornton, Chara, Brodeur, Iginla, St. Louis, Malkin

Probable: Datsyuk, Hossa, Lundqvist, Alfredsson, Toews

Possible: Sedins, Elias, Marleau, Lecavalier, Brad Richards, Heatley, Gonchar, Zetterberg, Spezza, E. Staal, Getzlaf, Perry, Kopitar, Bergeron, P. Kane, Luongo, Miller, Nash, Ribeiro, Weber, Keith, Kessel

Long shot: Doan, O. Jokinen, N. Backstrom, Dan Boyle, Morrow, Briere, Tanguay, Gaborik, Nabokov, Fleury, Vanek, Havlat, Timonen, Sharp

On track: Tavares, Stamkos, Doughty, Rask, Quick, Giroux, Subban, Price, Karlsson, Seguin, Parise, Suter

Others to consider for the future: Pietrangelo, Benn, Ekman-Larsson, Landeskog, MacKinnon, Hall, McDonagh, Duchene

I probably missed some guys but the main reason for this post is so I could get my thoughts down and maybe have some of you bounce your own around.
- NickTheKid87

Doan will make it strictly because he is Captain Canada at the World Championships.

/kiddingish

I think Berube is taking turns scratching players and hoping to send a message
- vejim

He thinks he's Herb Brooks.

VLC and a 20 foot pole for an 8X10 glossy of Savard, Lapointe, and Robinson.
- 77rams

Is it signed?

so the one defenseman we have that can pinch and still get back, or skate it up ice with speed, gets scratched?

this is really comical
- Marc D

MacDonald, Streit, and Coburn all have good mobility. I don't like it either, but I understand it.

Doan will make it strictly because he is Captain Canada at the World Championships.

/kiddingish
- johndewar

Maybe Mike Richards will squeak in too.

VLC and a 20 foot pole for an 8X10 glossy of Savard, Lapointe, and Robinson.
- 77rams

Vinny is french?

- Tomahawk

It's gross, man. Just gross.

Scratch macdonald, vinny, umberger and have read on stand by. Call up kids and play them. If we are going to lose lets at look like we have the balls to try and play.
- jmdodgeser4

Salary cap.

I think Berube is taking turns scratching players and hoping to send a message
- vejim

So we should expect Read to get scratched next and Del Zotto to move to the third line?

I know Detroit and Montreal were reportedly interested, no idea how much cash or years they offered
- Jsaquella

I think Dallas were in on him, too, but would only go to 4 years.

Fast Eddie 1 broke the page.
- MBFlyerfan

Lies!

Grossmann, Coburn and Streit have all been bad lately, too. But we know they actually are immune.
- Jsaquella

Should be sat but isnt gonna happen.

He thinks he's Herb Brooks.
- Tomahawk

yes, in the casket

Is it signed?
- FlyersGrace

Give me a minute...

I dunno.

This feels like a 7 d-man sort of game.
- johndewar

That's what I'd do

Can't scratch the entire team.
- MJL

Great argument. Good fact you bring.

I want to give Berube for being the one guy with his eyes on the prize

Grossmann, Coburn and Streit have all been bad lately, too. But we know they actually are immune.
- Jsaquella

I'm a fairly big Coburn defender, but he had a couple of games after he came back form his injury where he was breathtakingly awful.

So we should expect Read to get scratched next and Del Zotto to move to the third line?

- FlyersGrace

Berube is from the old school of scratching

I think Berube is taking turns scratching players and hoping to send a message
- vejim

I didn't see Saturday's game, but Del Zotto must've been pretty (frank)ing bad to get the hook before every other defenseman except Streit