Papa Cherry
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I'd be targeting Weber or Subban.
I'd also target Sidney Crosby so we can address our lack of no1 center.
I'd be targeting Weber or Subban.
I'd also target Sidney Crosby so we can address our lack of no1 center.
There were reports that a large chunk of teams were calling Nonis about trading for Dion before the extension, and that teams continued to even after the extensions.
GM's see the value in Dion.
Sell low + sell low + pick
for
Sell high + sell high + pick
In two years when Monahan and Giordano fall back to Earth (or in Monahan's case, there is enough data to show his calibre, and it's not as high as it was this season) and Phaneuf and Kadri return to normal production, the trade would look like an absolutely collosal waste of assets...
And without a doubt there is a personnel problem. Enough guys in that group have fallen apart too often.
Yet that side doesn't mean there isn't a coaching problem. Carlyle has made boneheaded decisions over the past seasons and this whole year he's been baffled. If he can't figure things out then there's no reason to be keeping him around.
Move some players out, but you also fire him.
Kyper said Franson was tradable piece many teams would be interested.
Make of that what you want.
There is no single fix for this team -- it's position in the standings are a culmination of things. Poor coaching, lack of size, lack of toughness (both mental and physical), lack of secondary scoring, and poor defensive play.
Fire Carlyle. Bring in some more defensive-minded defensemen and fowards. Switch up a few pieces of the core of the team (Phaneuf, Lupul, Reimer, Franson and potentially Kessel).
Chances are Carlyle is gone and one or two core players get moved.
Just heard Kadri on a radio bite on TSN radio, " we have a lot to play for in personal achievements". Someone get this kid out of town. Can't believe anyone could say this after bowing out of the playoffs.
i am just going to hope that this was taken out of context
Just heard Kadri on a radio bite on TSN radio, " we have a lot to play for in personal achievements". Someone get this kid out of town. Can't believe anyone could say this after bowing out of the playoffs.
Just heard Kadri on a radio bite on TSN radio, " we have a lot to play for in personal achievements". Someone get this kid out of town. Can't believe anyone could say this after bowing out of the playoffs.
he's not necessarily wrong though - i mean every single one of them has to go through exit interviews, even O'Neill said it - once you get eliminated that's all you really have to bank your career on with the organization that you're with: he's going to have to do his exit interview and go I've hit 20/50 XYZ (knowing that all season he's been in the centre of trade rumours etc)
now - does that mean he should have said that publicly? Well, no. he shouldn't haven - and sooner or later he's going to realise that he can be honest without saying every blessed thing that pops into his mouth and without being cliche either.
Because they're cutting it to sound controversial.
Seigel defended him saying that he was directly asked about playing for personal achievement.
Wrong answer to give Daisy, you have to look at the way this team has pancaked out of the playoffs, when a reporter asks you is this a chance to is personal goals is something to play for these last 2 games?
You don't say yes, we have a lot to play for in terms of personal achievements.
This team lacks maturity, many players lack intelligence, they take to losing too easily.
You are probably too young to remember them, but if a reporter asked Clark, Roberts, Gilmour, Tucker, Corson, Mccabe this question. They would have looked right through you and say are you serious? We just missed the playoffs, I couldn't care less about personal achievements!
And Hodge said, he could have said no. I can't believe people are going to defend this.
Kessel was a ray of bright light last night, he answered the questions right. He is a guy I can see hope with. The rest, are not there yet.
"The skillful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man. For the wise man delights in establishing his merit, the brave man likes to show his courage in action, the covetous man is quick at seizing advantages, and the stupid man has no fear of death."