Bullfrog said:
The game passed him by a long time ago.
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The game passed him by a long time ago.
herman
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Apparently, Florida relieved its head coach Gerard Gallant of duties last night. Super weird considering Desjardins and Capuano are still employed.
George McPhee needs to get on his horse and call Gallant up and hire him for the VGK position. It would be the most righteous thing to do.
George McPhee needs to get on his horse and call Gallant up and hire him for the VGK position. It would be the most righteous thing to do.
Kin
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Seems a little unfair. I know they had high expectations after last year but does anyone look at that roster and think they should be way up in the standings? Their top 4 when they played the Leafs was:
Ekblad-Pysyk
Demers-Yandle
That's not bad or anything but it's not exactly something that screams upper echelon team either.
All that said though this could just be more of the new management team wanting their own guys in place.
Ekblad-Pysyk
Demers-Yandle
That's not bad or anything but it's not exactly something that screams upper echelon team either.
All that said though this could just be more of the new management team wanting their own guys in place.
bustaheims
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Nik the Trik said:
They've also been without Huberdeau all season, and Bjugstad has played all of three games.
Captain Canuck
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It was still bush league how Gallant was fired though. They hauled his belongings off the team bus and then left him on a street corner to hail a cab!
WhatIfGodWasALeaf
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Captain Canuck said:It was still bush league how Gallant was fired though. They hauled his belongings off the team bus and then left him on a street corner to hail a cab!
Nonsense, he refused a car service from the team.
Captain Canuck
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WhatIfGodWasALeaf said:Captain Canuck said:It was still bush league how Gallant was fired though. They hauled his belongings off the team bus and then left him on a street corner to hail a cab!
Nonsense, he refused a car service from the team.
Yeah I just saw that now from details from the afternoon press conference. Not sure why they waited that long to clarify as media was having a field day with this on the morning sports radio/t.v. shows. It was being reported by some reputable people so took it as fact...guess I should know better than to trust them.
McGarnagle
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If this was done tactfully, I don't know why his belongings had to be removed from the charter, or why he would have been put in a position to have his departure photographed regardless.
Maybe there's more details, but still doesn't look particularly professional on the surface.
Maybe there's more details, but still doesn't look particularly professional on the surface.
WhatIfGodWasALeaf
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McGarnagle said:
It was his choice to do it this way.
They offered a car service to keep this all professional and out of sight and he chose to go it solo, hence the circus.
He wasn't put in any position other than the one he opted for.
hockeyfan1
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Don't know where to place this, but besides Arizona, Ottawa and Calgary are in need of new rinks:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/look-new-arena-hurdles-facing-calgary-ottawa-arizona/
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/look-new-arena-hurdles-facing-calgary-ottawa-arizona/
Kin
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http://olympics.nbcsports.com/team/hockey-3/
The PA rejected the League's offer of agreeing to Olympic participation in exchange for extending the CBA.
This is kind of a dicey one for me. I tend to be 100% pro-players on CBA stuff but I've also long felt that the owners were right to not want to go to the Olympics and that if the players really wanted it they'd probably have to make concessions.
That said, this rejection and some of the comments that came out of it might very well be signals that the next CBA is going to be a doozy. The players interviewed do not seem happy about the current state of things.
The PA rejected the League's offer of agreeing to Olympic participation in exchange for extending the CBA.
This is kind of a dicey one for me. I tend to be 100% pro-players on CBA stuff but I've also long felt that the owners were right to not want to go to the Olympics and that if the players really wanted it they'd probably have to make concessions.
That said, this rejection and some of the comments that came out of it might very well be signals that the next CBA is going to be a doozy. The players interviewed do not seem happy about the current state of things.
hockeyfan1
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Nik the Trik said:
In this situation, want and need are in the same sentence.
Kin
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hockeyfan1 said:
First off, that doesn't make sense. Secondly, what terrible calamity will befall the world if these two NHL franchises don't have new arenas?
Forbes estimated the Flames as being profitable to the tune of 18 million last year. The Senators also profitable at 6.3 million. So why are new buildings a necessity?
All you're doing is just repeating the garbage the NHL feeds their friendly media in a cynical attempt to get public funding for buildings that aren't needed and don't really benefit communities.
Neat graphic showing the locations of the goals scored by the leagues top-2 goal scorers right now:
h/t @kikkerlaika
h/t @kikkerlaika