Guilt Trip said:
Zee said:
CarltonTheBear said:
caveman said:
if Hainsey and Gardiner are not resigned Borgman could have a shot...
Him, Rosen, and Holl will likely occupy 3 of the 7 or 8 defenceman spots on the roster for a combined $2.125mil. That's pretty good with the whole cap crunch thing.
Babcock hates Holl though, given how many times he's scratched him this season, so there's still a shot for Borgman.
Hard to argue that. For whatever reason Babs doesn't want to use Holl....maybe he's saving him for the playoffs lol!
Part of me wonders if Babcock doesn't hate or not want to use Holl, but rather, just likes Oz more than he should and felt he wouldn't know for sure what he had in Oz unless he played him every day.
In particular, Holl is well known by the organization and its possible they felt they wouldn't be hindering him much (in comparison to Oz) by having him in the pressbox. He's 27 and he's probably not going to develop much more in the AHL. He's a 6-7 defender who's here for depth. I would have prefered he saw some sort of rotation up until Muzzin was acquired.
But Oz was coming from Russia- he'd have a much bigger adjustment to make compared to Holl coming from the AHL. Oz having an out-clause if he got sent down to the AHL might have made Babcock feel like he should give Oz plenty of icetime to see how he would adjust.
And now maybe they feel like they have a better handle on Oz- so now its time to rotate them through to keep them both fresh for the playoffs in case of injuries.
Anyways, I'm HOPING this is a sign of things to come, that they rotate until the regulars are back to keep them both fresh. In which case, I also expect Holl proves to be the better d-man to Babcock.
