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 Adam
Messages: 6994
Registered: August 2005
Location: Edmonton, AB
6 Cups
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| CrusaderPi wrote on Tue, 24 October 2023 11:48 |
| Adam wrote on Tue, 24 October 2023 11:32 |
Why do you have to be so mean about the management? Who could expect a GM with 30+ years experience to prepare for a scenario where his team has injury issues? Or goalie issues? or defence issues?
I'm still struggling to understand why we felt that what we really needed more than anything after last season was another winger? I mean, that roster is essentially the same one from last year. We've just replaced Yamamoto, Puljujarvi and Kostin with Brown, Holloway and Erne. The team must really have believed they were just unlucky to lose to Vegas. I think the management also has bought in to this myth that since we lost the last couple years to the eventual Cup Champions, that that has some meaning. It doesn't. We were flattened by Colorado in 2022 - maybe their easiest series, in big part because our goaltending couldn't stop a beach ball. And we didn't do much better last year against Vegas - again in big part because of goaltending. So naturally we got a couple more forwards!
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Holland hit on my girlfriend at Cactus Club in Kelowna, so I run him down on the internet.
The GM put the coach in a really bad position here. There is an argument to made about Brown, Holloway, or Janmark (not really Janmark) in the top 6. The problem is those are all less than optimum choices rights now. Even Foegele up there is questionable. But who replaces him? Holloway probably can't do it right now and Brown is still a mystery, we don't know if he can. So that leave Janmark and Foegele, I guess. Go Oil.
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That damn hound dog Holland!
Honestly, I think I could wrap my head around the issues at forward if we had improved some other area of the team. The fact is, this is the one area where Holland decided he needed to tinker, and it's still looks mediocre. Goaltending looked atrocious and still is costing us games. This season, we've been out-goalied in 4 of 5 games...not coincidentally, the same 5 we lost. If we had just adequate goaltending, we probably should be at least 3-2-0 rather than 1-3-1.
"Thinking that a bad team's best players are the reason the team is bad is the "Tambellini re-signing Lennart Petrell" of sports opinions." @Woodguy55
#FireLowe #FireBobbyNicks #FireKenHolland #FireKeithGretzky
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