I guess we can go point by point here to make it easier.
It's a safe assumption to make. I truly can't see how anyone who understands hockey and watches Hronek play on an nightly basis could agree with your takes.
When you make an assumption you are making an ass out of yourself. You don't know me and don't know what I do. The same goes for me to you. So assuming I don't watch games is just wrong. I don't need to explain myself here, especially to you, on how you are wrong, so I can just leave it there.
I do not care if people agree with my takes. Plenty of people disagree and that is fine with me, it's called life. Get over it. You seem very upset that I don't agree with you and I am not sure why care so much for my approval.
You kept stating to wait to mid January for us to "know who he really is", yet here we are and keep making the same claims you did at the start of the year despite mountain of evidence that shows you were wrong. You keep claiming he has had a huge regression, but yet he is playing his best hockey right now. You claim he gets bailed out by his teammates, but its really the opposite of that. You claim he is a by product of the team around him, as well as he is "hiding" his bad qualities in a contract year.
Yes, I did say that. Then, when you came back a few days ago and asked me what I thought. I then told you what I thought. I said he has not shown the regression I was expecting and what most red wings fans expected....So that would actually be agreeing with you! I just didn't say it the way it makes YOU feel special, warm and gooey inside. Sorry I didn't do that for you. I never said he
has had a huge regression. I said I expected it. I even said (again, i just said this to you) that he has not regressed the way I expected. I did say he is making the same mistakes and yes he is a byproduct of the team around him. In detroit, he did not have a vezina goalie, a norris partner, or a top 2 offense (much less a top 20 offense) in front of him. So, yes, that is helping him and his mistakes seem a lot more minimal that it was prior. This does not mean he isn't making the same mistakes, this means that his mistakes are being covered up better or could be making a little less mistakes. There's a difference somehwere there.
I find it bizarre and really quite funny that you keep pushing all of this, when there is nothing to support any of it . It's like you don't understand that players develop, land in good situations, and can improve over time.
I am not pushing anything. You are the one that came back a month later and sought out my old post to try and shove it in my face. You are the one that brought all this back up, including (if i remember correctly, sorry if not true) you wanting a very specific date to come back to talk to me. Why is my approval this important to you? At this point, let's be honest here, you are not going to stop seeing a great player, and I am not going to stop seeing the mistakes he is literally making on the screen in real time. Again, it helps when you make a completely dumb giveaway to a shooter and a vezina goalie is back there (kudos to demko and whoever has that signature line on the canucks forums of demko4vezina).
Most everyone agrees that this trade should work out well for both sides, which is awesome. But yet you keep coming back saying you " know what we know" about him from when he was a 24 YO on a bad team.
Again, I said it multiple times and I really hope you read this part and i will write it in all caps so you can clearly see it...I AGREE THAT IT WAS A GREAT TRADE FOR BOTH SIDES. I actually said that multiple times in previous pages on this thread and I even said it multiple times in the past day or however long this has been going on this week with you. I don't understand how you keep saying that I never said that?
Anyway, feel free to disagree all you want, I'm out.
I appreciate your offer of feeling free to disagree, as I obviously need your approval to do so...I think I told you to do the same a month ago, but who knows, you probably didn't see me write that too. Clearly, you do not read everything that is said and just pick and choose certain words to argue. That is fine. I agree to disagree! Ah, there's your approval you wanted!
