Nucks Misconduct · Oct 1, 2018
The Apologist: Promise kept, Gagner cut
Much was made in the pre-season of two items. Signing bottom six character Veterans, and Jim Benning saying that if the kids won a spot he’d be willing to waive a Vet to give a kid a chance.
Complainers said those ideas were incompatible. Apologists said it would make the kids earn their spots and relieve the pressure to keep the kids up if they were not ready.
Today, veteran power play specialist and sometime sheltered centreman Sam Gagner was put on the waiver wire. Journeyman bottom six winger Darren Archibald was also waived for assignment, and Archibald can be expected to do good service in Utica until a hard checking big body is needed for injury relief on the big club.