Bryan Lerg (7gp. 2-8-10 +4 in Stockton this year and 3gp. 1-0-1 +1 in Springfield) got the callup (AGAIN), while Colin McDonald (14gp. 2-2-4 in Springfield) gets sent down to work on his confidence. Hopefully Lerg will get a real opportunity to grab a roster spot this time around. Good call IMO, but there are some other things that need to be addressed as well.
#1-Why is Robbie Bina (7gp. 1-2-3 -3 in Stockton and 3gp. 0-1-1 +1 with the Falcons) in the lineup over Cody Wild (7gp. 1-2-3 +4 with the Falcons)? How do you scratch a guy like that who also has 3 PP points when you have a struggling PP and offense?
#2-Why in the world is Mathieu Roy on the PP? 0 points in 5 games, yet he's playing beside Sebastien Bisaillon on the Schremp-Potulny-____ PP unit? Mathieu Roy is an offensive play killer at the AHL level. Play him in a strictly defensive role, if he ever makes it back to the NHL, it won't be for his PP production.
#3-Why don't we loan Mathieu Roy to another team? Jake Taylor didn't need to play on the PP prior to his recent injury, so why does Roy? Chorney, Wild, Bisaillon, and Peckham are all better on the PP than Roy and they are all younger. Peckham and Young need prime defensive and PK minutes (for the most part they've gotten them). And Bisaillon's defensive game has come a long way (as evidenced by his +5 rating). Cody Wild is also underrated defensively and should be used in such roles and Taylor Chorney has gotten his share of PK minutes already.
#4-When Jean-Francois Jacques returns, the team will effectively have too many veteran banging wingers. Derek Bekar (9gp. 3-0-3 -1 4pim.), Guillaume Lefebvre (13gp. 0-2-2 +4 40pim.), and Hans Benson (7gp. 0-0-0 -1 25pim.) along with Jacques will be taking valuable icetime from Ryan O'Marra (9gp. 0-2-2 -1 6pim.) and Geoff Paukovich (4gp. 1-0-1 Ev 10pim.).
Paukovich is a guy that needs more icetime, he is a center that likes to hit and he's still young enough that he could turn out to be a player.
