Well, that makes a little bit of sense, then. I think Hershey is still playing regular season games through this weekend, so maybe they brought him up for a tiny bit of big league exposure, since they are already in the playoffs.
In other news, the Caps just extended Nick Dowd for 3 years at a total cost of $2.25 million, which is a salary cap hit of $750,000 over the life of the contract. Can't complain about that -- it's only a little more than league minimum. SOMEBODY has to fill the bottom of the forward rotation.
Hey Black.
Hope your Easter was peaceful!
I like the Dowd signing. It’s got all the trimmings of a good deal all round!
Dowd signed multi years, so he’s happy. Management has to be happy with the $$!!
And Dowd is a gritty, hustler, who is quite attentive, and disruptive on defense, and is a very decent 2 position offensemen, mainly center, but can fill in as forward adequately!
Although not in possession of the most stellar puck handling skills, he seems appreciative of a system that allows him to compensate for some lesser talent, with a go hard effort level!
Hopefully he’ll work on improving his face off abilities. Somebody simply has to step up for us in that category!
The Samsanov thing was a bit of a head scratcher for me, as well. Reading that HERSHEY is already playoff bound, seems the contributing factor, as I haven’t heard any major negative on Copley, from the Caps mgmt. At least not in the regular media channels. The 2 games thing mentioned by 4Caps, makes a bit more sense also!
Like to see the boys wrap it up Monday!!
Rush
