#24 – Not Sure If Serious or Playing Dumba

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Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Yup.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

As I said below, he was never arrested. He was held at a police station until TK could come and get him.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

TK was the one who had to come get him?? Aw.

That being said (in response to what you said below), I doubt that the front office would be foolish enough to allow one incident to turn them against him. But one incident that we know about doesn't necessarily happen in a vacuum. We don't see all the things they see, and apparently it was WBS personnel telling Rutherford that Pouliot wasn't ready for a call up. I don't completely trust the FO not to have outdated or shitty ideas about young players earning their place/being put in their place, but given that there's been no shortage of young WBS guys who have gotten opportunities this season, I don't give Pouliot the full benefit of the doubt either.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

Rutherford has said repeatedly that Guerin is the one who decides when prospects are ready to be called up or not. Considering his shitty comments about Sid playing too "fancy" or whatever, I don't exactly hold his judgment in the highest esteem.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I don't have the highest opinion of Guerin's judgement either, but I thought it was very telling that Sullivan, who was familiar with all the WBS players from his time down there, seemed to trust all of them to play, even when they made stupid mistakes every once in a while, except Pouliot.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

DA

I don't really know if Sullivan didn't trust Pouliot. He played him a lot when he got called up, sometimes as the number three defenseman. He got benched literally just because they wanted to try Schultz; if I remember right, Pouliot was playing so well around the deadline that Schultz still had to sit two or three games after he came because Pouliot and Cole were such a great pairing. He didn't get benched for Schultz in the reg season because of a poor game, it was just to see what they had in Schultz. The Penguins got on a roll and Sullivan was hesitant to change the lineup.

Pouliot was also Sullivan's first option over Schultz in the playoffs. He didn't do well and got subsequently benched but still, so did Maatta. No margin for error in the playoffs.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

SA I don't think he trusts Schultz and Pouliot both in the lineup together. And there's also a handedness issue, they hate playing Cole on his offside and he usually has to be to play with a leftie Pouliot. Schultz is a rightie.

Re: Hockey Media

[(Anonymous)]

I did not get enough sleep and misread that as handsomeness issue, and was trying to figure out both how they would balance a lineup around that and which was Cole's good side.