Quoting: AFOX10900
a broken clock is still right twice a day... plus some of your other takes have been just as far off... saying something along the lines of addison is overrated and should get traded, and you also said that Marino probably wont make it after one preseason game...
Addison is over rated and if you watched him play with the penguins in the preseason you would know what.
It's one thing to dominate at the CHL level, it's another to get anywhere at the NHL level.
There are all kinds of 2nd round picks with a name that go no where. There are reasons for that.
Addisons' is he's small. Really small. No where near his listed height and there are multiple people who have pointed that out, including penguins blogs like Pensburg.
He doesn't have the size to be an NHL defenseman. Those are some tough facts of life.
Get over that fact. You got forwards who are 6'4+ in this game. and he looks like he's 5'6.
You simply can't field teams like that at the NHL level. You will be hiding them in the line up their whole career because they can't play on their own end.
Evaluating a player is more than looking at his numbers. You have to project where he fits in against elite talent. Right now he plays against a whole lot of other kids who are not NHL worthy. They are smaller, slower, and not skilled. So he can get away with how he plays. He won't get away with that at the NHL level. He'll get run over, smacked into the boards, and shoved down in the scrum in front of the net.
As far as Marino, I did say they would both (poj) be on the team next year. I hold by that. They will indeed both be on this team next year. They both played really really well.
I don't know why some of you take that away from them.