Reread your own post. You know what’s clearly coming through? That you think you know better than Quinn how to develop prospects and you’re upset that he doesn’t do how you want it done. And you know what? even though you’ve been posting here for six whole years longer than me (lol) I put my trust in Quinn’s approach because factually - it works.
Don’t know why I need to list it again but under Quinn Buchnevich turned into two-way 1st line force at forward. Chytil at 21 is over .5 PPG center, Kakko improved by leaps and bounds compared to last year and his production (with limited minutes and opportunities) is very much on a par with 1OA in his draft, and Lafreniere is miles better right now than at the start of the season. So claiming that they are ruined is going completely against the facts.
Now, as far as the number of posts goes, you’re right - my count would’ve been much lower if there were just a little less stupidity on the board which is lately at the level it’s never been in the past. And for some reason I don’t see you righteously “fighting” posters who barely joined a year or two ago and have a number of posts that exceeds yours and mine combined. Why’s that? Don’t answer it’s rhetorical.
P.S. What’s your next challenge? An excessive number of likes?
At the request of folks in the roster building thread, I moved this discussion from there to here.
This is the kind of nonsense that makes so many people just ignore you and the other Quinn acolytes. You never address any of the issues. You just build straw men and then spike the ball when you think you've "won" an argument that nobody was making in the first place. Even dopier, you make claims that are absolutely moronic and then complain about the stupidity of the
other people on these boards.
For example--Look at your first paragraph in the quoted post above. At no point did I claim that I personally had better hockey knowledge overall than Quinn. That's absurd. It's like saying that anyone who criticizes a player is saying that they are more talented than that player. I criticize Quinn because he's taking an approach (NOT playing top prospects) that
literally nobody has taken before and the reason that is frustrating is because, contrary to the "fact" that you offer, it DOESN'T work. Ask anyone other than the small crowd slobbing on Quinn whether or not this team has been successful in developing our top forward prospects. Ask anyone whether or not a .3 ppg through the first 100 games is considered successful. Ask anyone whether a 28 point pace is "successful" for a first overall draft pick. The defense is working. The top vets are working. The goalie is working (now that he's got his head out of his ass and recognizes that he had an
obvious #1). In other words, all the stuff that was developed before he got here, and all the stuff run by Martin (which was a train wreck last year) is going swimmingly. Oh yeah, and we are still unlikely to make the post-season. So Quinn is sacrificing the development of the kids and we STILL probably won't get any benefit from it.
Now on to paragraph 2. These are the "accomplishments" you are laying at Quinn's feet:
-"Developing" Buchnevich--a 25 year old forward who was 23 years old with almost 200 career games to his credit before Quinn even got here. Really? Why not give him credit for Lundqvist's career while you are at it? Buchnevich has been progressing each year. The only two differences this season are that he's playing a couple minutes more per game and he's rocking the PK (again, Jacques Martin's area).
-You are actually giving him
credit for Chytil?! Yeah, Chytil is having a career year in terms of the underlying numbers. In terms of actual production? He's only got 16 points
because Quinn won't play him. His minutes have not only been cut; they've been slashed by a minute and a half, and they are even lower than his average over the last 15 games. Quinn completely removed him from the PP. There is no bigger example of Quinn royally f***ing up an asset than what he's doing with Filip Chytil. KK, Laf, and Krav have pedigree and should get minutes to get comfortable in the league. Chytil has actually EARNED minutes, and he's seen his ice time massively cut instead.
-Re: Kakk0, he
was on par with Hughes last year. Both players improved massively on defense. The difference is that Hughes has just about doubled Kakko's production this year. And Kakko was
expected to be better than Hughes in their first couple of seasons because Hughes had the body of a 12 year old. Any objective observer can look at the Rangers development of Kakko and Laf and 99 out of 100 are going to say they are being mismanaged/screwed up. And just look at today's game. Through two periods, all four of the kids have a point. Chytil, Krav, and Laf have had the least amount of ice time. Blackwell has almost twice the TOI of Chytil. It's ridiculous.
As for your snit over the post-count comment, that was solely in response to your characterization of the "fire Quinn" crowd as filling the boards with "noise." On more than one occasion (every power play goal for a bit as just one example), I see the pro-Quinn folks jumping in with snide comments. The noise--at the VERY least--is coming from both sides.
