Quoting: ChampEddy
What is this? Judd Caulfield? This guy can`t sniff an AHL team let alone the Pittsburgh Penguins.
Kiersted would not fill anything either. Also LD is the only position on this team that there isn`t a hole on. Maybe a good depth move for when they trade MP.
Also why would they swap Kapanen and Rust? Makes no sense.
Caulfield is a prototypical 4C. Big, fast for his size, and a lot of grit.
For someone who want's to add grit to this team the fact that you don't see how a big hitter like him fits in is unreal.
You clearly don't watch him play.
Furthermore this team has like 0 depth at center. Gaudreau is their 4C because we have no one else. Those cupboards are bare.
To sit here and pretend he's not on the AHL team next year is just laughable. If they can sign him, he's got a fast track to the 4C spot on this team. As there is nothing in the way to take that role other than Gaudreau, who is a UFA, and probably would go to a team that will play him over dead weight like Jankowski.
He will be groomed for the 4th line role if they can sign him. Because he's built for that role and he understands that.
As for Kiersted, when they move Matheson, there is your hole. POJ is not ready to be a NHL player full time. They benched him mid game multiple times this year. They couldn't put him in the Dzone because teams were eating him alive parking guys on him, so they put him in the Ozone for 60+% of his shifts. Where he got benched mid game because he doesn't have the chops to be that guy.
But that's who Kiersted is. He's the guy who moved the puck for Docker. (damn thing keeps switching to decker)
That's what he does. Mobile, good puck skills. knows how to fill his role. Good chance for him to replace Matheson's role. as the 2LD. aka the sheltered Dman.
Where MP and Dumo take the PK.
So to think there is no role for him simply is not true. You are talking about a guy who played next to Decker and was more noticeable. He's not some scrub. There is a reason every team will be banging down his door. Hopefully the sign him. As this team could be stacked with good young defensemen for the next several years.