TheFountainhead
Red Nation
Thanks know where we can find a few more comrade?
They don’t make very many in that mold. Aho’s not too shabby himself btw.
Thanks know where we can find a few more comrade?
Best things that can happen going forward.
-Darling is cut, traded, waived, whatever. He can't be here anymore, he just can't. Start him every game and tank.
-Rod either steps down or is fired Keep him through the season; make sure Velucci is well paid.
-Don Waddell either is fired or quietly steps down. Yes, and don’t allow him to trade any core pieces
-Dundon doesn't meddle and make "No defense in the 1st round" comments. Yes!
-Dundon hires legit NHL GM and coach.Just a GM. Next GM hires the coach.
Hopefully seeing Skinner succeed in Buffalo while Cliff Pu (3 points in 22 games in the freaking AHL) struggle in Charlotte wakes his ass up.
Putting on the tin foil hat, I wonder if the old boys club of NHL owners aren't willing, or ready to let Dundon in on the poker table to get a trade done. "We don't want to trade within conference, or division" yada yada yada, or is it we don't want to trade with you.
It might be harder than expected to get that sniper we want, if no one wants to deal with us. Sure we have some defenseman, but how desperate are the teams we want to trade with, really? Maybe not desperate enough to help out Dundon.
Maybe he's not good with the people skills. Maybe he hasn't done the right things so far to be an accepted trade partner. Firing Francis probably didn't do him any favors, even though Francis wasn't getting the job done. Francis may have been his path to legitimacy with other teams, even if he maybe wasn't so cut out for the job.
Maybe I'm day drinking too much.
Ok, tinfoil hat off.
Waddell has made 2 trades in 6 months. That doesn’t tell me he’s having trouble finding partners.
Actually, was Martinook a trade? I think so?
It's likely as simple as hockey trades being very difficult to make. Other teams are looking to get better, not go sideways.
The strategy of accumulating an abundance at one position to later trade for another position is dangerous. Sometimes you find yourself in the right place at the right time (Goligoski for Neal.) Other times, you're stuck with a high pick (Bean) that appears to be locked out of the NHL for the foreseeable future through no fault of his own. The timing hasn't been right for this organization yet and may not be for this build.
I don't even think it was firing Francis, but rather how it was done. Doing it during the season made no sense.
I'm thinking Waddell got in Dundon's ear and convinced him that he could do a better job as GM than Francis.
I don't know if the team adopting strategies based on if fans who don't know what they are talking about agree with it is the right play.
Think some of you are reaching pretty far.
Think some of you are reaching pretty far.
That sure is an in-group.We have an inexperienced coach, an incompetent GM and an interfering owner. No ridiculous claim is out of the realm of possibility.
That sure is an in-group.
I mean, when some think other teams won't trade with us, in spite having made at least 3 trades under this regime, I'd say it's too far. If anything, teams would put aside being butt hurt over an incredibly mediocre GM being cast aside, and do everything they can to trade with us the way you painted us.We have an inexperienced coach, an incompetent GM and an interfering owner. No ridiculous claim is out of the realm of possibility.
Then maybe all of us should just say nothing about this team ever, by that logic.
Yes yes. We get it. "Hurr Durr internet commenters are dumb." Maybe so. Maybe the coaches are way smarter than we are. Then again, maybe they're f***ing not.I cant think of any alternatives. Either team does what we tell them, or we shouldn't ever talk. The logic is sound.
I mean, when some think other teams won't trade with us, in spite having made at least 3 trades under this regime, I'd say it's too far. If anything, teams would put aside being butt hurt over an incredibly mediocre GM being cast aside, and do everything they can to trade with us the way you painted us.
I cant think of any alternatives. Either team does what we tell them, or we shouldn't ever talk. The logic is sound.
On a team with Svech and Aho those are the three you send out?
He's just trying to get guys going. He's trying to show confidence in guys like McGinn, PDG, an Kuokannen
I understand what he was trying to do.
It backfires and you look dumb though