NHL: Around the League 52

[Hattrick Kane]

I'm not saying this is right or wrong, but this is what happens when you jerk around more talented and better players in favor of guys that "work hard" Jiricek is young and shouldn't be gifted anything, but the way Pascal Vincent and CBJ Upper Management have handled Kent Johnson, Fantilli, Jiricek.. pretty awful lol.

Not to mention the whole Babcock situation. Not sure how ownership puts up with that any longer.

I mean we’re doing that with Reichel right now aren’t we? Dumbass coaches are gonna dumbass. At least the defensemen for the most part are being handled properly.

Maybe we can trade for Jiricek before Jarmo gets fired, get a deal.

 

[BobbyJet]

I'm not saying this is right or wrong, but this is what happens when you jerk around more talented and better players in favor of guys that "work hard" Jiricek is young and shouldn't be gifted anything, but the way Pascal Vincent and CBJ Upper Management have handled Kent Johnson, Fantilli, Jiricek.. pretty awful lol.

Not to mention the whole Babcock situation. Not sure how ownership puts up with that any longer.

On the flip side: A coach pampers an obviously skilled player who is cheating and isn't working and lets him get away with relying on his skill alone, and said player's NHL career is over after 5 years. Of course, the elite will likely survive but others will not.
Luke has been around the NHL his entire adult life. I think he knows a little more than the armchair coaches around here, most of whom haven't even coached a peewee team, never mind in the best league in the world.

My advice: quit pretending and let's see what Davidson and Richardson can accomplish in a tear-down rebuild. It's not going to happen overnight.

 

[Mrfenn92]

On the flip side: A coach pampers an obviously skilled player who is cheating and isn't working and lets him get away with relying on his skill alone, and said player's NHL career is over after 5 years. Of course, the elite will likely survive but others will not.
Luke has been around the NHL his entire adult life. I think he knows a little more than the armchair coaches around here, most of whom haven't even coached a peewee team, never mind in the best league in the world.

My advice: quit pretending and let's see what Davidson and Richardson can accomplish in a tear-down rebuild. It's not going to happen overnight.

Columbus is a tire fire

 

[TLEH]

On the flip side: A coach pampers an obviously skilled player who is cheating and isn't working and lets him get away with relying on his skill alone, and said player's NHL career is over after 5 years. Of course, the elite will likely survive but others will not.
Luke has been around the NHL his entire adult life. I think he knows a little more than the armchair coaches around here, most of whom haven't even coached a peewee team, never mind in the best league in the world.

My advice: quit pretending and let's see what Davidson and Richardson can accomplish in a tear-down rebuild. It's not going to happen overnight.

I wasn’t comparing it to Reichel at all in my comments. I think some aspects of it are similar, but I also think a lot of Reichels problems lay at Reichels feet.

 

[Hawkaholic]

I mean we’re doing that with Reichel right now aren’t we?

No

 

[Kevin Musto]

I mean we’re doing that with Reichel right now aren’t we? Dumbass coaches are gonna dumbass. At least the defensemen for the most part are being handled properly.

Maybe we can trade for Jiricek before Jarmo gets fired, get a deal.

Reichel hasn't even been sent to Rockford this year

He's had every opportunity, and he fails to do anything with it

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Time to clean house

Agree they need to clean house and punish the kid

Send him to Chicago!

 

[Mrfenn92]

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

They should sit down with him, his agent and possibly family to talk about retirement as option

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

They should sit down with him, his agent and possibly family to talk about retirement as option

He's got three more years of money coming in. He isn't retiring.

 

[Mrfenn92]

They should sit down with him, his agent and possibly family to talk about retirement as option

It would be LTIR.

 

[Space umpire]

Made a mistake outside of the rink. No reason he should be banned from the NHL for it though, so good luck to him.

Really!

 

[Drumman44]

How much would you charge LA to take on PLD for buyout? It’s a low cap hit for a long time. The man seems to ruin every team is a part of

 

[Mrfenn92]

How much would you charge LA to take on PLD for buyout? It’s a low cap hit for a long time. The man seems to ruin every team is a part of

Don’t see the kings willing to pay what it would take any team to do that

 

[Space umpire]

Any massive city in the US can support a team. Houston and Atlanta are massive markets. If its a good arena and has a good location then I imagine it will work.

If you go to a big market and treat the team like shit and have a shitty arena and in a shitty location and a shitty team, don't be surprised if the team folds.

Exactly! Atlanta 2.0 was doing ok until ownership announced they were selling the team and any buyer would have to move it since they weren’t making the arena available for rent.
At that point the fans quit supporting the team.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

How much would you charge LA to take on PLD for buyout? It’s a low cap hit for a long time. The man seems to ruin every team is a part of

A long time is like what fourteen years? No thanks.

 

[ChiHawks10]

A long time is like what fourteen years? No thanks.

Yeah, I'm not interested in a 1.5m cap hit for the next 14 years.

 

[Giovi]

On the flip side: A coach pampers an obviously skilled player who is cheating and isn't working and lets him get away with relying on his skill alone, and said player's NHL career is over after 5 years. Of course, the elite will likely survive but others will not.
Luke has been around the NHL his entire adult life. I think he knows a little more than the armchair coaches around here, most of whom haven't even coached a peewee team, never mind in the best league in the world.

My advice: quit pretending and let's see what Davidson and Richardson can accomplish in a tear-down rebuild. It's not going to happen overnight.

Guys who have been "around the NHL" their entire life have proven not to be good head coaches before, and will continue to be. The fact a guy could play the game at a high level does not ensure he will be a good teacher, far from it.

And if "armchair coaches" are not supposed to have an opinion on the daily goings on in the NHL, might as well shut down the board right now.

Fans voicing their opinions to other fans is the entire point of this forum. Not sure how you don't understand that, given you're one of the fans doing exactly that.

 

[Mrfenn92]

 

[ChiHawks10]

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Sounds like mental health and not substance abuse.

 

[Mrfenn92]

Sounds like mental health and not substance abuse.

Agreed

 

[TLEH]

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

Columbus by every indication is a hot mess. LuRich for all his flaws is a guiding voice of reason compared to that team. They're way too talented to be this bad.

 

[Hawkaholic]

Columbus by every indication is a hot mess. LuRich for all his flaws is a guiding voice of reason compared to that team. They're way too talented to be this bad.

And the players seem to love playing for LuRich, or most of them.

 

[DisgruntledHawkFan]

And the players seem to love playing for LuRich, or most of them.

Well they f***ing should because half the roster shouldn't be in the NHL.