I was talking about K'Andre but point taken. I don't disagree with you.
10000000% valley is going after Mika. I wanted to give Mika the reset for next year. To say let's see this guy bounce back, but after his comments today the guy exposed himself as one of the problems. Who the f*** is he to talk to the media on breakup day and actually suggest that management needs to keep him and players in the loop?? Wtf. His job is to collect 8.5 million dollars a year and play his bag off for the team that is paying him and this f***ing guy wants to be in the loop on things. f*** off
Like a said since prior to Thanksgiving, a war with the players and management. These douche's openly exposed themselves today as cancers and causes to that war. Again, people sometimes miscalculate the importance of players to a room, to a whole, beyond what their stats are or what they do on the ice. There is value elsewhere to a team. Three guys were pulled out of the room this year that had value well beyond their on ice stats and the leadership vacuum allowed the entitlement of some to rub off on the others within the team. Honestly, if Mika and kreider are back next year how can anyone actually believe a single word about accountability? Mika would have done himself more good by not answering any questions today.
But these divas that are avoiding accountability are literally the players with letters on their jerseys. That should show everything people need to know about this mess. Brooks always talks about the lame duck captain with trouba this year and he's right. When trouba stopped leading this zombies took over and that's why you got what you did this year. There's no quick fix for this with no internal leadership in this room. That's why whoever the next coach is better be able to demand accountability from the players bc they aren't equipped to do that to themselves at this point.
And this is the exact reason I gave up my season tickets(last friday was the cutoff to renew). This is a group of all out losers. I would VERY happily cheer on a group of young guys busting their asses and missing playoffs. I will not waste my money, time and effort when the product on the ice couldn't care less. Never been more disappointed in this organization than I am right now...and I agree, no easy answers.
Maybe Drury is here long enough to be the executioner and then he moves to president only and hires a gm?
It was reported everywhere it was his back. And I hate to say this in a shitty way but Trocheck played with a broken finger all the way through 4 nations and the end of the season. I'm not giving kreider and his bullshit any benefit of the doubt at this point. He was very publically too hurt to play until exactly after the deadline and then he was fine? f*** those games...
For sure! I would suspect this entitlement didn't quite start until after their run under Gallant. Maybe they were tight before and all but it feels like that was a tipping point to some extent. I remember after Gallant was fired people were saying the players wanted more leadership from the coaches and accountability there but not all the players wanted that, some of them resisted it. And I think we can guess who.
I mean I dunno but it's very obvious this power struggle is still ongoing. They're challenging the GM here publically and Drury doesn't seem the type to put up with that shit, for better or worse.
Yeah. Trouba is a very bad person. I don't know why anyone feels bad for this guy. He f***ed the jets when he got moved the first time, he f***ed the rangers when he felt like it. Him and his agent collided to ensure nobody would trade for him.
Yeah, I agree they didn't develop these guys for shit! Well, maybe not agree on Robertson, I dunno, he was given opportunities in the AHL and from all accounts he didn't play well enough to earn a callup.
lol I mean in other situations I think it's fine that he wanted to do well by his wife. I don't have a problem with that but I guess I do have a problem with how it all went down in the end. I do have a problem with him outright stating he checked out on the team after Drury asked him to waive over the summer.
Without any evidence if I had to guess who was doing most of the crap talking my guess is Trouba. I say that as a person that defended him in the past. He just seems to have that mindset imo.
If it's the reason, then fine, but the guy publicly predicted his entire career on what his wife wanted. When questioned about his shit play he literally dragged his non profit and wife into the public sphere of opinion.
do you even read what you post? or are you messing around? this is edstroms quote. "due to injury"
Wasn't Drury the AGM to Gorton?
do we honestly believe lifelong narcissist Chris Drury is going to give up his GM power like that?
