Maximizing Matt Rempe's Potential: Development Strategy

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00:00You cannot put this kid in development pull him out two games later to just put

00:07on a fight in a game for no freaking reason and I don't say no freaking reason

00:11because he's not impactful when it comes to dropping the gloves and yes if you

00:14want to bring back the life of an enforcer to hockey do so but what is the

00:17strategy behind Matt Rumpy when you look at what he has done career-wise and how

00:21they should be focusing on developing a bottom six center they're kind of I

00:26don't know hurting him more than they're helping him let's take it back to his

00:29WHL days first of all coming back from injury Matt Rumpy had to I don't know

00:34get back into rare form when it comes to being a center what is the role of a

00:37bottom six center being defensive minded for one being somebody who could

00:40separate players from the puck for two and being someone who can create

00:42turnovers Matt Rumpy is six freaking eight why are we not using him for puck

00:47separation in turnovers and we've seen glimmers of this ability but going back

00:52to the WHL was unable to play with the Thunderbirds originally got cut then

00:56accumulated an injury coming back from injury though after being forced to

00:59miss 15 games posted 12 goals 19 assists 31 points and that's in 47 games you do

01:05the math on the average of his production per game and after that 2021

01:08to 2022 17 goals 6 assists that's 256 games this is a kid that can perform and

01:14do a lot more than drop the gloves and practice punching himself in the face as

01:17well as punching others so I'm not gonna go into too much of a spiel I'm so sorry

01:20Rangers fans but you're kind of doing it a disservice to Matt Rumpy and what he

01:23can actually contribute to your fourth line he needs to hang out down in

01:27Hartford for a little bit he needs to get more production going if you're a

01:30defensive minded center you should not be sitting in the negative column for

01:33ratings when you're playing on one of the top rosters in the league