I think some people need to open their eyes. This team is marshmallow soft atm.
No, they really aren't. I'd say there actually above average in toughness by today's standards.
Way too many skill players/Euro types and absolutely no one to look out for them.
Sestito/Rinaldo will just be punching bags for true heavies thus staying with the theme of the past 4 or 5 seasons. Hey but they're game to go right boys?
Not really. Sestito is on par with the heavys of today. Granted he can't hang with the real big boys, but as hitt3n said, there are like 4 of them. You can also add in a bunch of gritty players who hit and will fight if they need too. (Cobrun/Grossman/L. Schenn/B. Schenn/Hartnell/Giroux/Sestito/Rinaldo/Shelley
Well maybe that's enough for you but you can keep the moral victories, I want someone that can actually win a fight or at least make someone think twice about taking a cheapie.
There are very, very few of those players left.
Shelley doesn't really play and even if he does he can't keep up with any of the real big dogs in the NHL atm. I love the guy but he's a complete waste of space at his age/ability level in the current NHL.
Who do you consider a 'real heavy' that he can't hang with? I think Jody can surely hang in there with all of the 'goons'
Other teams loading up on toughness we're signing ****ing
Bruno Gervais and Fedotenko for chrissakes.
Who, exactly, is 'loading up on toughness'? Do you honestly think some of those guys are going to get NHL time?
Giroux is highly competitive and with the game he plays he needs someone to make sure liberties aren't taken. With all these young guys there needs to be
way more grit/leadership and honestly there is absolutely no one.
When you have coaches saying G is one of the best players in the world yet you don't get him a first class bodyguard it's not acceptable because I can guarantee you there isn't single heavy in the league who doesn't look at Sestito/Rinaldo (and Shelley for that matter) and lick his chops.
You'd think after what happened last year Homer would be working furiously to get some protection for players who are the future of the franchise. I see it getting bad this year.