If you want a soft Spott team, keep re litigating Ando and Dirracolo's fight lol. If they had just let everyone fill the net 12 times with 0 pushback, everyone would be complaining about that imo. Ando is likely getting traded so I don't care if he goes over the fight limit for us, even if that means sitting a few of the games he has left with us.
The last thing we need here is a soft Spott team. “We’ll get them on the PowerPlay” was his mantra and it did not work. He stood around with a dumb look on his face in the post season when penalties were not called and we were ran out of rinks, exiting post seasons early.
The last Ranger team that had a true shot at a championship was the 17–18 team. That team was incredibly tough. MM needs to get back to that and in my opinion, has begun the process.
You’re exactly right on Andonovski and his fight totals, etc. He is wearing the C for a reason. Part of his leadership is to show the young players that it’s not OK to roll over and accept a lopsided score against. So, I don’t really know exactly how that fight started and don’t much care. But if I’m Andonovski, and I’m out there looking for a reason to send a message, I may be looking for the next Spit who directs as much as a snear or laugh my way. I don’t care who it is, he is getting it.
Years ago, when PD was brought here, his first order of business was to bring in a leader. He brought in Nick Policelli. By putting the C on his chest, he was sending the message to his teammates and around the league the type of team he was going to run here in Kitchener. I equate that to today’s captaincy. Policelli knew when to send a message as well. One game over in Guelph during a stoppage and scrum, Daniel Paille gave him a slash on the back of the leg. Wasn’t a major slash, but still, Policelli felt there was a message to be sent. Needless to say, after the pummelling, Daniel Paille never slashed him again.
Hey, as has been said before by myself and others, we’re not looking for a goon team out there. But what we are looking for is a team that is willing and very able to stand up for itself, that is going to be able to withstand the rigours of the long playoff runs that are in our future down the road.
