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Avs_19
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- Jun 28, 2007
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UncleRisto
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LOFIN
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- Sep 16, 2011
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He's leaving after this season anyways, they will just let him ride it out to retirement.
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Honestly, their strategy should be to sign David Ayres so that their skaters feel that they have no choice but to commit to focusing on the defensive side of the game. The Canes played incredibly tight defensive hockey with Ayres in net in order to protect him. Then, after lessons are learned, put whatever marginal NHL goalie back in between the pipes.
Ceremony
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- Jun 8, 2012
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Calvin Pickard has played for some bad NHL teams in his life.
Remember when I thought I had the goalies of two contenders in fantasy hockey?
McMetal
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Campbell didn't even play last night. Imagine being fired on your day off.
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LOFIN
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Which makes it even weirder. Jack also seems to be a guy who is very much liked in a locker room.
If this is what it looks like, an attempt by Ken Holland to shake things up and send a message, I don't think it's a particularly good one.
- Apr 25, 2006
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They absolutely had to do something and firing the coach won't fix the goalie situation.
LOFIN
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Their issues go beyond goaltending though. I can see why Ken Holland used this bullet instead of firing Woodcroft, but I can also see it backfiring. Not in terms of them getting any worse goaltending because I doubt that's possible, but how this would go over in the already disgruntled locker room.
When your co-employee that works the same gig as you did work that day and shit his pants at the office.
- Jan 18, 2016
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If you and your coworker both shit your seat in the break room but can only get rid of one of you, you obviously get rid of the guy making more money.
Foppa2118
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I feel like we used to see these kind of things more often. Coaches fired after wins, because they wanted to snag someone who might get hired by someone else.
SoundwaveIsCharisma
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It would be such an Oilers thing if Pickard came up, played out of his mind and then they signed him to a decent length contract for a chunk of change just for the wheels to fall off once again.
expatriatedtexan
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- Aug 17, 2005
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Cal seemed like a solid dude though. If he picked up a bag of coin from some other team, I've got no problems with it. Good for him.
- Apr 25, 2006
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Picks is legitimately a worse goaltender than JoJo. It's a desperate move with no upside, Oilers aren't going anywhere with him in net.
And then Picard rips off his goalie mask and reveals he was Mikko Koskinen all along.
His #19 still haunts me.
The Kingslayer
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Wings coming down back to Earth with that mediocre roster
dahrougem2
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Came to say this. After tonight 2-5-1 in their last 8 as the Rangers beat the brakes off 'em
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