GDT: G9: Avs at Wild - 7pm CT (FSN)

[Wabit]

0 goals against and +5 through 8 games is pretty good for a 3rd pair defenseman

2 assists also.

 

[AKL]

Then why is he being paid like one?

UFAs get overpaid. That's why if he's not worth the contract you're going to have to give him, you trade him.

 

[Wabit]

UFAs get overpaid. That's why if he's not worth the contract you're going to have to give him, you trade him.

Fenton got fired that.

 

[AKL]

Fenton got fired that.

No he got fired because he was a dick.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Then why is he being paid like one?

Because he's a really good player that was looking at UFA status at a time when the right side of the defense wasn't as strong as it is now, and he must have a pretty good agent and/or Guerin struggles at negotiating contracts.

I certainly wouldn't have minded if it stayed in the $6's but here we are.

 

[AKL]

Because he's a really good player that was looking at UFA status at a time when the right side of the defense wasn't as strong as it is now, and he must have a pretty good agent and/or Guerin struggles at negotiating contracts.

I certainly wouldn't have minded if it stayed in the $6's but here we are.

This is true regardless of Spurgeon's agent.

 

[Wabit]

No he got fired because he was a dick.

He was a dick, sure. But not signing Spurgeon and looking to trade him instead got him fired.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

This is true regardless of Spurgeon's agent.

Greenway's is fine, though it's pretty hard to screw up a 2 year bridge.

Early, but Talbot's doesn't seem too bad.

I'm guessing we'll learn quite a bit in this regard this summer with Fiala, Kaprizov and Eriksson Ek coming due.

 

[Webster]

Fenton got fired because he treated his staff like crap

 

[Wabit]

Brodin tries to walk the whole Avs team.

 

[Wabit]

Fenton got fired because he treated his staff like crap

If that was the case he would have been fired before the draft and UFA period started.

 

[2Pair]

Wild are killing it with the spin move tonight

 

[Wabit]

I thought Bonino was better at scoring.

 

[Al Lagoon]

Seems to me the 2 easiest guys for the Avs to get the puck off of are Rask and Parise

 

[AKL]

He was a dick, sure. But not signing Spurgeon and looking to trade him instead got him fired.

Yeah you're going to need to link your source, because I haven't seen anything to indicate this is true.

 

[Webster]

Who's the coach in charge of the power play? Fire him.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

5.6%

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Who's the coach in charge of the power play? Fire him.

I don't think we need to be specific to the power play here.

 

[Wabit]

Yeah you're going to need to link your source, because I haven't seen anything to indicate this is true.

Look at the timing of his firing. Fenton wouldn't re-sign Spurgeon and had his name in trade rumors. He gets fired. Then the first thing the new GM does is give a boat anchor contract to Spurgeon.

 

[2Pair]

Seems to me the 2 easiest guys for the Avs to get the puck off of are Rask and Parise

One of those guys had played the fewest minutes among forwards. The other has played the most

 

[AKL]

Look at the timing of his firing. Fenton wouldn't re-sign Spurgeon and had his name in trade rumors. He gets fired. Then the first thing the new GM does is give a boat anchor contract to Spurgeon.

Yeah that's not a source or proof.

 

[Dr Jan Itor]

Look at the timing of his firing. Fenton wouldn't re-sign Spurgeon and had his name in trade rumors. He gets fired. Then the first thing the new GM does is give a boat anchor contract to Spurgeon.

Pretty sure he signed Eriksson Ek first.

 

[16thOverallSaveUs]

Parise is unwatchable

 

[2Pair]

Yeah you're going to need to link your source, because I haven't seen anything to indicate this is true.

I think it's a stretch to say that's the "reason" he was fired. But it isn't hard to believe that it played a role.

 

[GordieGallant]

Byrum has looked good for the Av’s.