Cossa was named the player of the week for the AHL: 2-0-0, .970 save percentage, 1.00 GAA, 1 SO
Have to think the starting job is his through the playoffs unless he completely craps the bed. Exciting stuff!
Hard to not be excited about how cossa is playing right now, putting up big games against good AHL teams. Even saw a clip of him giving the admirals leading scorer the business with his stick a bit, so the kid is feeling his swagger right now.
It is really hard to fast track players from the draft to the nhl and have success, especially outside of the first round and sometimes even in the back half the of the first round. Sure it would be nice to have some of these later picks up and contributing but it isn't very abnormal that the process is slower than the Seiders and Raymonds of the world. If you go and look at the second and third rounds of these drafts there isn't even a ton of average established nhlers. If you expect the Wings to hit on instant superstars you're going be really disappointed, if it were easy all the teams would be doing it.
Apparently Beggren rejected a contract extension recently. I'm guessing it was a low ball offer to get talks going, but who knows. We could see Beggren used as a trade chip one way or another this deadline.
This seems like a pretty fair deal to me https://www.capfriendly.com/comparables/michael-rasmussen-12703
It still feels like a misstep to have taken him over other players in his draft year but we can't do anything about that now. He's developed into a useful NHL player, playing seemingly hard minutes and PK2 time. He's actually been especially good on the PK this year too I think. I think he fits the mold of the Comphers and Copps of the world that won't wow you with a ton of skill but are hard to play against. Plus his crazy eyes are hilarious. So this seems like a fair deal.
Spoilers from the first few episodes:
It is nuts to me that they didn't give the new pilots/crew a heads up on how insane it was going to be on their missions. I guess you don't want people going in scared but damn that is crazy to me.
Really enjoying Masters of the Air, agree it isn't as good as band of brothers but it still has that same sort of feel. I think I like it better than the Pacific so far. Crazy to see what the bombers' missions were like.