powerplayer wrote:
You know what I REALLY find depressing?
It's not this loss, or the PP, or the season, or the last 4 years, or the last 11years.....it's the fact that the upper management of this team, up to and including this owner, ARE NOT COMMITTED TO WINNING A CUP.
The problem with that is, no matter what happens at the lower levels, the odds are against winning the big prize.
ALL OF THEIR MOVES ARE REACTIVE, NOT PRO-ACTIVE.
Drury, Briere, Campbell: ALL left because management waited too long.
Vanek signed for way too much, because management waited too long and Edmonton made a huge offer.
Trade deadlines come and go with few substantive aquisitions.
They "believe in their players" instead of AGGRESSIVELY getting veteran talent to take them far in the post-season (and don't bring up Kovie-we know it doesn't always pan out, but you gotta try!)
They also, for REACTIVE PR reasons, signed and overpaid Connolly, Pominville and Roy.
Roy makes 4 million dollars, he is overpaid HOW?
Drury and Briere was a mistake, they've fixed that, Miller signed in July, July 18th , before that season even started, so they didn't wait on that.
Also, would you have wanted to send away, Kennedy, Ennis, Mancari, and a pick to land Kovalchuk? That is what they would have wanted, and just lose him, and lose two young guys who are going to be great for us?
They've had to rebuild the team, which I agree with some of the points, but we need a few assistant coaches to run the PP to top 5 in the league again, not 17th or whatever it is.
Connolly did fine during the season, the last 6 games was a different story.
Pominville was signed during the period of highly inflated contracts. Gaborik would get 9 million at that time also, he signed for 7.5 last year.
We'll also shed some more salary this offseason to help build the team up with hopefully a good signing in FA.
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CriminallyVu1gar wrote:
No need for violence, just tell her she's got a game misconduct and show her the door.
Rud wrote:
As I said in the GDT, the call on Rivet was horseshit. The Bruins player was holding onto Rivet's stick like it was the last fucking raft on the Titanic.