I do think he's putting blame on himself for being distracted by that and not just using it as an excuse.
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I do think he's putting blame on himself for being distracted by that and not just using it as an excuse.
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It was a trickle down effect. GM does/says some shit, Vet core guys get all "wtf?!!", young guys get infected like a virus. Key, Laff should've ignored it instead of letting it consume their brain. Does being unsure make you lose hockey IQ?
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yet you have people crediting Drury for “addressing” the teams issues. I’ve never heard that phrase used for someone who tried to fix a problem but just sucked epically and got nowhere haha
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Only at the beginning of the season and at the trade deadline. Don't forget about the trade deadline flare up like herpes that we never heard about again after the deadline...
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So essentially what we got out of clean out day was nothing. They're disappointed with the season, blaming it on distractions for the most part, pointing back to Goodrow and trouba exits, and not a ton of accountability. Why am I not surprised...
And I'm not trying to downplay kreider or anybody else that had injuries but it's all got to be put in context here. There are guys playing right now in the playoffs with worse injuries Jane then what this group has. If you're hurt bad enough that you can't play then don't play, and if you can play then you should be playing to a standard and at the very least if you can't physically play up to your normal standard you should have the effort component. Throughout this entire lackadaisical roster effort and accountability were absent all year and now it even sprawls into breakup day.
I don't want to hear any more crap about a lot of outside noise or our teammates got traded away or whatever other crap they want to whine about at this point, just own how bad you were this year. Just own the fact that if you actually provided even a marginally consistent effort this season the team would have made the playoffs.
The fact that there's still whining about Goodrow and trouba, or that Mika is projecting that somehow he should be in the know about what's going on in the organization just continues to wreak of entitlement. Of course the captain of the team is going to have a line of communication to the coach and potentially up to the management, but when the captain is traded somebody within the room needs to fill that void and it doesn't look like anybody in that room actually filled the void. That's on the f***ing players.
And if Mika's going to cry about it then he should have been the guy to try to step up. The guy wants to wear an A on his jersey and yet he doesn't actually fill that void in any way whatsoever other than to scream at a referee when Miller gets slashed in the nuts. What a bunch of just absolute zombies...
And I'm not trying to downplay kreider or anybody else that had injuries but it's all got to be put in context here. There are guys playing right now in the playoffs with worse injuries Jane then what this group has. If you're hurt bad enough that you can't play then don't play, and if you can play then you should be playing to a standard and at the very least if you can't physically play up to your normal standard you should have the effort component. Throughout this entire lackadaisical roster effort and accountability were absent all year and now it even sprawls into breakup day.
I don't want to hear any more crap about a lot of outside noise or our teammates got traded away or whatever other crap they want to whine about at this point, just own how bad you were this year. Just own the fact that if you actually provided even a marginally consistent effort this season the team would have made the playoffs.
The fact that there's still whining about Goodrow and trouba, or that Mika is projecting that somehow he should be in the know about what's going on in the organization just continues to wreak of entitlement. Of course the captain of the team is going to have a line of communication to the coach and potentially up to the management, but when the captain is traded somebody within the room needs to fill that void and it doesn't look like anybody in that room actually filled the void. That's on the f***ing players.
And if Mika's going to cry about it then he should have been the guy to try to step up. The guy wants to wear an A on his jersey and yet he doesn't actually fill that void in any way whatsoever other than to scream at a referee when Miller gets slashed in the nuts. What a bunch of just absolute zombies...
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This is genuinely painful to read. Best prospect on the team in the press box watching “remps and Carrick”
That’s definitely some sort of internal, NYR, “the right way” cultural crap. If we were a normal organization our biggest offensive prospect bar-none would be saying “yeah, you get scratched, you take a game in the press box, you get to see the way guys like Panarin create space or how hard Miller goes after pucks, the way Foxy reads this game from up there is crazy” and instead our organization is so insistent on this “earn it, do it the right way” brand of hockey (which, ironically, is the FARTHEST thing from what they actually play) that our prospects are talking about getting to watch the vaunted Sam Carrick from a different vantage point.
“Yeah, it’s a privilege, for sure. From up in the press box you can really see what it takes to get to 300 NHL games by the time you’re 33. I just hope to one day be a 73 point player as well. Oh, no, not in a season … just, like, career, ya know? Do things the right way”
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Mpt trying to argue but I had a different view. For a team with fairly little cap money last offseason, I thought signing Lindy for 1 year then trading him for a 2nd round pick was a pretty good move.
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Vally is right, no one wants to be accountable. The Mika and Kreider answers epitomize that. It’s a joke. Neither of them owned any blame. At least Fox and Laf did in some ways. These two are the most tenured leaders. It’s horrible.
“The players were on notice”
- exactly. There didn’t need to be more communication on that to Kreider and Zibanejad. You gotta real damn dense to not understand what was at stake and what was going on. It is just bitching and moaning with no accountability.
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“Far-ranging coaching search”
That’s what they called it last time and it ended with them making the laziest hire possible
That’s what they called it last time and it ended with them making the laziest hire possible
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Steve is 100% right. Drury needs to use his douchebag tendencies for good to force Zibanejad to waive his NMC. Guy is a f***ing clown. Kreider too but that was a foregone conclusion if he wanted any cap space heading into the offseason.
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This is the one and ONLY time I will ever get some form of joy or amusement out of this song. Easily my most hated song ever
Patrick Reed had one of those before round 4 of the Masters. He did not get much air time despite finishing 3rd
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It's funny because I assumed at this point that Valiquette played for the Torts Rangers but no, equal parts Renney and Torts
Forgot how few actual games he played here.
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Forgot how few actual games he played here.
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