Chevy takes the summer off and lets me manage the offseason

Went to watch a UMD game live recently and Samberg was very unimpressive, if he signs for next season I won't be at all surprised if he'll need a season in the AHL and when he eventually makes it he won't be anything special as a defenseman.

is it possible that he just had an off night like a lot of other players? he has 6 points in 8 games so far so he cant be that bad

Well I'm not just basing my opinion on one game.. Lol

Between that game and all the games he played for the U.S at the last two World Juniors he has yet to impress me much.

In his defense early in the game he took a puck off the ear (It looked bad like Little's injury) but he returned so showed he's got some balls at least.

But all in all he wasn't great, here were was what I noted: -questionable decisions with break outs like throwing the puck dangerously in front of the net which on at least one occasion led to a great chance for Denver.
-He doesn't play as physical as you'd like considering how big he is.
-He's slow to make his coverage in the D zone and at times looks lost to find his man in front of the net.
-Theres little offense to his game, surprisingly he was out on 3 on 3 OT and he didn't activate to go into the offensive zone when the puck was passed to him which led to a good scoring opportunity for Denver, it was towards the end of the OT so had he went it likely would've killed the period at least but instead it allowed a good chance for Denver, they didn't score but it was close and it all came from Samberg not activating into the offensive zone.
-A positive was his breakout passes were mostly clean and on the tape.
-Another positive was that he was on late in the game and with the goalie pulled he had the puck and rather then throwing a low percentage shot on net he passed it over to a teammate who dished it over to the guy who scored the game tying goal.

So for the most part he wasn't very good, some positives but for a guy playing in his third season of college hockey I was expecting him to look a lot better then he did. At one point I thought he'd be a Trouba replacement but now I highly doubt it, he'll be better then Stanley but that isn't saying much.. Lol

The guy who stood out the most was a dman that the Hawks took later in the 2nd round of the same draft as Samberg, Ian Mitchell from Denver. A smart, mobile RHD who's calm with the puck, wish they'd drafted him instead of Samberg.