Caper and I see the pros to both options, but I’d be curious to see what a few of you would do regarding Blair Russel vs Tim Kerr at RW4, if you were managing the Voyageurs.
Parise - Sundin - Russel
Vs
Parise - Sundin - Kerr
Blair Russel is a guy I really like. One of the stars of his era, very good defensively according to reports, and could score too. Probably one of the better two-way players of his day. Seems to be a guy Hap Day would really like. The one negative, is that even though he has been listed as a C/RW multiple times in the ATD and has played plenty of RW here, more research may need to go into that to make me feel comfortable playing him at RW. A lot of reports I’m finding seem to make note of him playing the left side. So he’d potentially be playing his off-wing here, something that I know a few consider as not ideal or even straight up not a good idea..
Tim Kerr on the other hand provides a big net front presence, a solid scoring option for a 4th line, and could potentially put some real pressure on the D and goalie along with Sundin in-close. He’s slow, but Parise and Sundin would be the primary puck carriers of that line anyways. Another good thing about Kerr is that he gives us another PP weapon as right now we had Dave Keon pencilled into a possible PP2 role and we know that’s obviously not ideal. Kerr would replace Keon there.
Two totally different players, but I’m curious to know what you guys would do?
Parise - Sundin - Russel
Vs
Parise - Sundin - Kerr
Blair Russel is a guy I really like. One of the stars of his era, very good defensively according to reports, and could score too. Probably one of the better two-way players of his day. Seems to be a guy Hap Day would really like. The one negative, is that even though he has been listed as a C/RW multiple times in the ATD and has played plenty of RW here, more research may need to go into that to make me feel comfortable playing him at RW. A lot of reports I’m finding seem to make note of him playing the left side. So he’d potentially be playing his off-wing here, something that I know a few consider as not ideal or even straight up not a good idea..
Tim Kerr on the other hand provides a big net front presence, a solid scoring option for a 4th line, and could potentially put some real pressure on the D and goalie along with Sundin in-close. He’s slow, but Parise and Sundin would be the primary puck carriers of that line anyways. Another good thing about Kerr is that he gives us another PP weapon as right now we had Dave Keon pencilled into a possible PP2 role and we know that’s obviously not ideal. Kerr would replace Keon there.
Two totally different players, but I’m curious to know what you guys would do?