Rpenny
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As the season starts to wrap up, it is time to start looking back at what type of seasons it has been. I call it The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The Good: Vancouver and the flyers. vancouver never hit the iceberg and fall down the standings that many thought they would. Tockett has the Adams trophy wrapped up. Flyers., most had the flyers on the team doing a rebuild this year. Them being part of the good comes with an *. How they handled the Carter Hart situation has left a bad taste in other GMs mouth. Flyers were reportedly heavily shopping Hart up to a month before the situation exploded. How much did the Flyer know is the question? Hart's name had been out there for awhile and no one was shocked when he was finally named.
The Bad: Flames and Blue Jackets. As an Oiler fan I am not trolling Flames fans, I just do not understand how screwed up the situation has gotten in Calgary. They had a solid core a few years. Johnny Hockey and Matt T wanted out and that happens. Flames replaced both with players that looked like they would and could make the Flames a contender. I thought the problem was just Sutter and thought changing the coaches would solve most of the problems. No idea why the team has not gelled properly but obviously the bigger concern is JK and NK earning their 10.5 and 7.0 a year contracts respectively. The Jackets are another team. Blue Jackets trouble started in the off season with the coaching decision and it only went down hill from there. Jackets were almost the ugly but Arizona situation beat them. On paper they have a balanced team but on the ice it has been another story. The big hit came with Laine being out for most of the year, Sacking their GM looks to have come 2 years too late. And the Roslovic trade confused me. I understand that he will be a UFA in off the off season but the things he does good wont be found in at looking at the basic stats but when you see how he plays the game. The should have gotten more from him
The Ugly: Arizona and the players scandal . Some posters can not figure out why this situation annoys and bugs hockey fans. I am a hockey fan and love my team as well as hockey. 30 Years in and we are almost back to where we were 25 years ago. This is not about relocation or anything. I do not like distraction off the ice and their saga is just never changing. Some people look at "oh, we now got blue prints" we have had blue prints before. I have relatives who live all over Arizona and the love the state. The team is now playing in an arena that is smaller than some of the community arenas in Canada and the complaints and observations gotta be annoying the NHL and NHLPA. Visiting players reportedly told to be quiet and if they do not like the arena to pass it onto the NHLPA and it sounds like they have. With the players scandal what can we say. We have a lot more questions than answers and no one involved in hockey handled it correctly.
The Good: Vancouver and the flyers. vancouver never hit the iceberg and fall down the standings that many thought they would. Tockett has the Adams trophy wrapped up. Flyers., most had the flyers on the team doing a rebuild this year. Them being part of the good comes with an *. How they handled the Carter Hart situation has left a bad taste in other GMs mouth. Flyers were reportedly heavily shopping Hart up to a month before the situation exploded. How much did the Flyer know is the question? Hart's name had been out there for awhile and no one was shocked when he was finally named.
The Bad: Flames and Blue Jackets. As an Oiler fan I am not trolling Flames fans, I just do not understand how screwed up the situation has gotten in Calgary. They had a solid core a few years. Johnny Hockey and Matt T wanted out and that happens. Flames replaced both with players that looked like they would and could make the Flames a contender. I thought the problem was just Sutter and thought changing the coaches would solve most of the problems. No idea why the team has not gelled properly but obviously the bigger concern is JK and NK earning their 10.5 and 7.0 a year contracts respectively. The Jackets are another team. Blue Jackets trouble started in the off season with the coaching decision and it only went down hill from there. Jackets were almost the ugly but Arizona situation beat them. On paper they have a balanced team but on the ice it has been another story. The big hit came with Laine being out for most of the year, Sacking their GM looks to have come 2 years too late. And the Roslovic trade confused me. I understand that he will be a UFA in off the off season but the things he does good wont be found in at looking at the basic stats but when you see how he plays the game. The should have gotten more from him
The Ugly: Arizona and the players scandal . Some posters can not figure out why this situation annoys and bugs hockey fans. I am a hockey fan and love my team as well as hockey. 30 Years in and we are almost back to where we were 25 years ago. This is not about relocation or anything. I do not like distraction off the ice and their saga is just never changing. Some people look at "oh, we now got blue prints" we have had blue prints before. I have relatives who live all over Arizona and the love the state. The team is now playing in an arena that is smaller than some of the community arenas in Canada and the complaints and observations gotta be annoying the NHL and NHLPA. Visiting players reportedly told to be quiet and if they do not like the arena to pass it onto the NHLPA and it sounds like they have. With the players scandal what can we say. We have a lot more questions than answers and no one involved in hockey handled it correctly.
