Allegedly. We've still seen no concrete reporting on this. Only conjecture and assumptions.plenty of others have picked up on it and it was especially clear after last year's debacle against washington that he is not well-liked in the room.
Any resemblance to Dr. Evil is purely coincidental.Allegedly. We've still seen no concrete reporting on this. Only conjecture and assumptions.
At least we knew Krzysztof Oliwa was hated and Lyle Odelien beat him up for being a douche. We just keep being told Elvis is a bad person.
So far Elvis just seems to be guilty of being a guy who has confidence in himself until he doesn't. Not everyone on the team has to be best friends but if he was truly hated everyone would have just pelted the sh*t out him in their end of season paintball outing last year. I've seen or heard no evidence of starting fights in the locker room or trying to steal someone's wife or anything heinous like that.
Jarmo isn't here anymore and I believe he was the purveyor of this public hate for him more than anyone. Jarmo held grudges like a true Bond villain.
Allegedly. We've still seen no concrete reporting on this. Only conjecture and assumptions.
At least we knew Krzysztof Oliwa was hated and Lyle Odelien beat him up for being a douche. We just keep being told Elvis is a bad person.
So far Elvis just seems to be guilty of being a guy who has confidence in himself until he doesn't. Not everyone on the team has to be best friends but if he was truly hated everyone would have just pelted the sh*t out him in their end of season paintball outing last year. I've seen or heard no evidence of starting fights in the locker room or trying to steal someone's wife or anything heinous like that.
Jarmo isn't here anymore and I believe he was the purveyor of this public hate for him more than anyone. Jarmo held grudges like a true Bond villain.
sure, and if by 'concrete reporting' you mean getting elvis's teammates on the record as saying that they don't like him, you're never going to actually get that.Allegedly. We've still seen no concrete reporting on this. Only conjecture and assumptions.
the core issue is a lack of balance between the two scoring lines. the solution you outlined is still fundamentally unbalanced as it is asking a player on the second line to carry too much dead weight.If I understand right, Sillinger should play with Monahan and Marchenko because he plays a similar style like Jenner. Although I agree with @majormajor . Especially if Sillinger and Chinakhov have very good chemistry and Marchenko with Adam.
Fantilli - Monahan - Marchenko
Pyyhtiä - Sillinger - Chinakhov
sure, and if by 'concrete reporting' you mean getting elvis's teammates on the record as saying that they don't like him, you're never going to actually get that.
there are other ways to source reports, as portzline has done, and just because it falls short of the impossibly high standard of "getting a teammate to openly talk shit about him to a reporter" doesn't mean that the reporting isn't properly vetted or true.
the core issue is a lack of balance between the two scoring lines. the solution you outlined is still fundamentally unbalanced as it is asking a player on the second line to carry too much dead weight.
looking at the top three lines from the other night:
59-23-86 – three good offensive players
82-4-24 – zero good offensive players
27-19-17 – one good (but young) offensive player
the key learnings are that:
the solution is to go with two good offensive players and one solid passenger on each of the scoring lines, then let the spare parts live in the bottom six. i'd still much prefer to keep the top line together and go add a piece for the second line, but it doesn't seem like that's in the cards for whatever reason.
- they only have four forwards who can drive offense
- a line can't function with only one of those guys
- if two of your top three lines are worthless, you're dead in the water
My objection is that we know the team is in transition and the coach comes in with the clean slate mentality, Evason was quoted in training camp that he was working hard and being a model teammate and 1 week into the season the media is banging the change of scenery bell already after a subpar outing and a potential injury to work though.He doesn't have to have stolen anyone's wife for there to have been a problem in the locker room with him last year. Sources on the team had told Porty that there was a problem. Porty doesn't have to tell you all the juicy details for you to believe that. There are good reasons to not share everything. I honestly don't get what you're objecting to here.
My objection is that we know the team is in transition and the coach comes in with the clean slate mentality, Evason was quoted in training camp that he was working hard and being a model teammate and 1 week into the season the media is banging the change of scenery bell already after a subpar outing and a potential injury to work though.
"Sources" could be anyone saying anything. Of course he's not reporting it because he doesn't have additional sources to corroborate worthwhile details.
Assuming that we can know what specific things Portzline is not telling us because it’s likely he has been told things he doesn’t share with his audience seems as picayune as being a bit obstinate about not believing things that we haven’t been told explicitly.
You are saying in this very thread that he knows about how Elvis is disliked in the room but isn’t saying it in so many words or from whom he learned the information. That’s pretty specific.I don't claim to know specific things. Where did you get that idea?
I was saying that Porty probably knows more than he can share, which I'm sure you're familiar with from that line of work.
You are saying in this very thread that he knows about how Elvis is disliked in the room but isn’t saying it in so many words or from whom he learned the information. That’s pretty specific.
Well, I was talking about being picayune, so this is fair, I guess.I'm saying it's a significant possibility.