Quote Originally Posted by HoganWoods View Post
The objective in hockey is to put the puck in the net. Is Emelin a big loss? Of course. But don't compare him to the loss of Spezza, that's just plain delusional. It's not even close to the same thing. Go to the AHL and pickup another goon, they grow on trees there.
ok ill bite, Pittsburgh/Philly had no issue putting the puck in the net last year, so what went wrong? Its a team sport every player as a role, if you think Emelin is a goon then you dont own cable tv and have never watched a game outside of Ottawa.

Losing Neil would be a huge loss for Ottawa, but by your thinking he's just a goon and can be replaced by any scrub in the AHL.