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you mean when Carcillo got hurt for two games to start the season, so Saad got to play, and capitalized so much that he got sent back to Saginaw?</p>
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Noooo, because that wasn't his rookie season. What would become Saad's rookie season, the lockout compressed season, Carcillo got hurt in the very first game. Q (being Q) at the time was having him skate on the top line for...whatever reason. Saad was a healthy scratch. When he got hurt,Saad got a chance and the rest, as they say, is history. Carcillo didn't see the ice for another month. If it weren't for that injury right off the bat, who knows when Q gets Saad into the lineup.</p>
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It's weird how hockey fans romanticize guys like him. Any other player that has substandard ability like Carcillo are forgotton about instantly, but because a guy who, in this case, tries to injure other players, talks a lot of shit and fights, they're seen by some as "needed" or "entertaining". I don't care how "boring" a guy like, say, Regin is, he's infinitely better than Carcillo. For as much as he's touted as being a "grinder" or energy guy, I'll take another guy like Ben Smith on the 4th line and his whole whopping 2 PIMs last season as being the better "energy" player as well as overall better player by far in almost every aspect of the game over the type of garbage Carcillo pulls.</p>
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Seriously, the two best things Carcillo ever did was get himself hurt for extended periods of time in the two seasons he was here. Gave Shaw and Saad their opprotunities and they ran with them.</p>