Silver Nuggets: What's Gonna Happen With Patrick Wiercioch?

He's been a healthy scratch for five games in a row, signalling the team will probably just get rid of him.

Patrick Wiercioch has been a healthy scratch for five straight games. Some people were expecting him to get traded at the deadline, but he wasn't. Now he's still a member of the Ottawa Senators, and will probably get to play down the stretch with Mark Borowiecki listed as week-to-week. Shortly after the trade deadline, Bryan Murray had some generic comments on Wiercioch:

I can’t tell you anything about the long-term at this point in time. That’s totally up to Patrick. I mean, if he comes in and plays the way we think he’s capable of and the way he played in the latter part of last year,…