Amy Johnson

And if that's the case, then you have to make a decision.

Is the forward that you could acquire going to be more valuable for your team right now than one of the forwards who, as Kent Hughes just said, is a good hockey player but isn't even playing games right now?

And if that's the case, then you have to make the tough decision.

Send that guy out.

Bring in the guy who's going to be even more effective and who might actually play games.

And of course, there's always the option of putting a player on waivers, sending them to the Laval.

They seem very reluctant to do that with Joe Valeno or Alex Texier.

They did it with Sammy Blais.

So, yeah, there's ways around it, but not places that they wanted to go.

But the die is cast.

This is the team.

The team is set.

And, you know, that...

Externally, they didn't do anything to address the situation.

So that only increases the pressure internally.

More pressure on the players to be better on the PK, to be better in their own, in the defensive zone, to be better at the end of the game, defending six on five, and much more pressure on the coaching staff

Marty St.

Louis, particularly Stefan Robitaille, to come up with solutions over this last month or so of the regular season because they can't go into the playoffs playing the way they are in their own zone, playing the way they are when they're down to man.

No, they can't.

They need to figure that out pretty quickly.