Half-Assed GDT: Blues at Hawks

[Xerloris]

what a bunch of losers wont even shoot the f***ing puck

 

[Linkens Mastery]

Petition to send Rivers to Siberia

 

[Spektre]

Berube has to go… it’s the way of the NHL

 

[Eldon Reid]

They keep stats on everything - I wonder what the league record is for number of games into the season having scored as many SHGs as PPGs.

Here's the crazy stats.

If you count SHG similar to PPG

PPP: 7 for 77

SHG 7 for 72

We have better % with SHG on PK than we have PPG on PP

 

[i aint Dunn yet]

Berube has to go… it’s the way of the NHL

who is the replacement ?

 

[Spektre]

who is the replacement ?

It doesn’t matter. It’s what happens and the team limps along to the offseason and hires the next guy

 

[Linkens Mastery]

who is the replacement ?

Hitchcock

 

[i aint Dunn yet]

Hitchcock

turtle mode

 

[Spektre]

Hitchcock

He actually didn’t look good at the game he was honored. He’s looking like he has a hard time walking

 

[Linkens Mastery]

turtle mode

But, will it be turtley enough for the turtle club

 

[GoldenSeal]

This team plays like spoiled children.

 

[Mike Liut]

One loss away from being in the top 10 draft spot and the schedule starts getting tougher

 

[Linkens Mastery]

He actually didn’t look good at the game he was honored. He’s looking like he has a hard time walking

That's true. Honestly. I have no clue who I would want as the next coach. I don't see anyone available that I would fire Berube over. I'd rather just limp to the end of the season with this coaching core and see if Rod Brind'amour leaves the Canes.

 

[Spektre]

That's true. Honestly. I have no clue who I would want as the next coach. I don't see anyone available that I would fire Berube over. I'd rather just limp to the end of the season with this coaching core and see if Rod Brind'amour leaves the Canes.

I can’t see Army waiting. It’s just the nature of the business

 

[Mike Liut]

Berube is going nowhere this year

 

[Linkens Mastery]

I can’t see Army waiting. It’s just the nature of the business

I just think it's a different time for the team than when they let Hitch and Yeo go. Those were teams that they expected the be Cup contenders that were terrible. This is a team that Army said he expected to be in the Middle third of the league. Blues are currently 20th and 1 point back of the Wild Card.

 

[Spektre]

I just think it's a different time for the team than when they let Hitch and Yeo go. Those were teams that they expected the be Cup contenders that were terrible. This is a team that Army said he expected to be in the Middle third of the league. Blues are currently 20th and 1 point back of the Wild Card.

I get all that but if the losing continues to snowball I don’t think Army has a choice

 

[Thallis]

who is the replacement ?

Dallas Eakins

 

[Linkens Mastery]

I get all that but if the losing continues to snowball I don’t think Army has a choice

I just don't see a world where a boss gives you an outline, you meet that outline, and you get fired for meeting said outline. If Army came out and said he expects us to be the top 2 team in the division and we were playing how we are, yeah sure I could 100% see it.

 

[ToniJ1960]

who is the replacement ?

Darryl Sutter ?

 

[TheDizee]

i wonder who he is talking about! Signing Kyrou for 8 million a year was the best thing ever to happen to our franchise!

 

[Linkens Mastery]

i wonder who he is talking about! Signing Kyrou for 8 million a year was the best thing ever to happen to our franchise!

Or you know.... Vrana who has been a complete liability the entire season and has been scratched multiple times because he is coasting 3 times worse than Kyrou did last year.

 

[JR1]

I mean if the team is struggling to exit the zone and it looks like a mess on our end I except the coach to do something to fix it. This issue has been going back to last year. Yes our players don't make the best passes but when I watch our team all of our guys are just standing there waiting to receive the puck or there is not outlet on the other side for someone to move it out. We also look lost on how we want to play the game in the offensive zone. We dump the pucks in so much for a team that sucks at using that strategy.

Have you ever seen a team stand inside their own blue line with the puck waiting for someone to get open? For God’s sake skate north with the puck..there is no momentum starting at your blue line with everyone at a dead stop. Get the f*** skating. I dont see any other team doing it even when changing lines. It infuriates me. This has got to be coaching?

 

[JR1]

I mean yeah that was an indivdual mistake on Faulks part but from what I've seen in the whole game we look lost entirely. Maybe Berube has the perfect game plan and the players can't play it but I doubt that's the case. The players suck and Berube doesn't have the answers. Do I think Berube is mostly at fault, no but I don't think he has any answers on how to fix one aspect of our game

Berube’s answer is always that they have to work harder. ALWAYS

 

[Ted Hoffman]

I just don't see a world where a boss gives you an outline, you meet that outline, and you get fired for meeting said outline. If Army came out and said he expects us to be the top 2 team in the division and we were playing how we are, yeah sure I could 100% see it.

This. What does firing Berube do, other than signal "when you guys underachieve and slack off, I'll hold someone else accountable?" Armstrong knew this 8 games into last season. He kind of read the team the riot act but pointedly said he wasn't firing the head coach ... and they didn't respond, and the end result was selling off every UFA. To fire the head coach now signals "I'll let you guys dictate what happens here" which ... he says he's not for giving players a ton of power, but that would signal that the players have a ton of power and he'll bend to them.

No. If there's a move to be made, someone from the current core has to go. Preferably more than one, just to really drive home the message.