Justin Danforth

Yeah.

You're going to put, I mean, Danforth and Carrick are hurt right now, even if one of them were healthy enough to return.

How are you setting these lines up without Helanus? And Cooley doesn't seem like we'll be gone that long.

He's in concussion protocol.

Your leaders in shorthanded ice time among the forwards, Ryan McLeod, Beck Mallenstein, Zach Benson, Josh Norris, Noah, those are your real, that's one, two, three, four.

After that, it's a smattering of guys.

Noah Oslin, Justin Danforth, Jack Quinn, and Tyson Kozak has a minute 50.

So I'd like to see Dom.

he was, yeah.

Yeah, Justin Danforth didn't do anything.

They're not getting any type of production from the fourth line, and they're not even necessarily good in their own end.

And Louis Crevier and Dennis Gilbert are a liability on defense.

There are still a couple injuries for Buffalo, but these are guys that have been out for a while.

Uriah Kulik and Justin Danforth.

Like I said, the main one for Washington is Logan Thompson, and that is why Charlie Lindgren is in net.

All right, next up, we've got always an entertaining and hyped-up matchup when it's Hockey Night in Canada.

But he's still not skating.

And then Sam Carrick and Justin Danforth both missed practice on Tuesday.

And Lindy Ruff added that he thinks or believes at least that Carrick's injury or issue is likely related to the injury that left him out at the tail end of last season.

So That's an interesting development for a few reasons, but the health of this team, I mean, Matt Kreslick's hurt.

Yeah.

Um, And then, as you said, too, Danforth and Carrick in that same boat.

I mean, I guess if you're going to be missing guys, you kind of want... no disrespect to Justin Danforth or Sam Carrick, but you kind of want your fourth line guys to be missing because that's kind of where their depth is, right? You know, I think Tyson Kozak is back skating in practice and Lindy Ruff said he'd look good.

And, you know, if Danforth and Carrick are going to be missing and you're trading them out for, you know, Zucker and Kozak, so to speak, you know, that's not a terrible trade.

The line combinations looked the same.

However, the only difference here was Sam Carrick and Justin Danforth were not a part of the lineup.

They were not a part of practice, both injured.

And Jason Zucker was working on the second power play unit.

Kulich, same thing.

Those guys are all within an inch or two of each other in the low sixes.

And you also, by the way, have Justin Danforth as a part of this, and I don't know if he counted last year, but he is one of the smallest players in the NHL, one of the shortest players in the NHL.

But at the moment, you look at your forwards and go, "Okay, well, who really is big anymore? Who's tall?" Tage, Norris, Malenstein, and I'm kind of done.