He can try to justify the 19 man roster size all he likes, but it was a bloody ridiculous decision. It’s great and no problem if everyone is fit, or even if you’re just missing one or two. But we had Nottingham and Coventry here recently, and both were badly depleted. Coventry had just 12 skaters for the majority of that game (and still beat us!). That’s just gives you an inferior on ice product and is taking us fans for mugs.
We know he can’t come out and say that players need to be released but I do worry if he really thinks we don’t need a change or two. I’m also intrigued to see if these players can just turn on the effort/desire levels this weekend. We’ve seen Skalde bemoan their work rate in quite a few interviews this past few weeks, without anything changing - might not be so easy to just switch that back on. Let’s hope they do, as this is about as tough a weekend as we’ve had so far in the EIHL.