- Oct 26, 2006
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Did you guys all orchestrate this together?
Give it a rest with all your accusations!
Your wrong, as usual, but this is year two of the rebuild. Your just showing your ignorance of the game if you think years prior to IA ownership should be included in your analysis.
Are you calling him a lyre?Give it a rest with all your accusations!
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They gave the reins to Tippett. Gave him the key to the store. This is his roster, the one Chayka built for him. So there's no more deflecting blame onto the GM or onto the lack of roster quality that'd he'd like to have.
I've watched three games. I see the same exact issues that have plagued this team on the ice for five-plus years plaguing them now. Same near-complete inability to gain the offensive zone. Same Keystone Kops act in the defensive zone. Same excruciating emphasis on long-distance shooting. Same bent-at-the-waist-and-flailing-stick level of effort. Same post-game quotes about "execution" and "compete level."
Package that in with the annual Smith injury and a Louis Domingue meltdown, and I'm surprised the bleeding has been as light as it has been so far.
I think if I had been able to afford to reup my tix this year, I'd be more angry about it. As it is, I'm still titanically frustrated. Mostly at myself, for subjecting myself to watching this mediocre brand of hockey year after year. And I can't help but wonder - is it realistic to assume that this team could develop into a Cup contender without a change in coaching?
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Are you calling him a lyre?
Are you calling him a lyre?
ck26 said:Are you calling him a lyre?
I've had it with all of this diminuendo!
I didn't mean to harp on you...
Anyway, we won't be trumpeting around the results of the last few games.
We won't have to if the players absorb the lessons Tippett drums into them.
They seem to have tuned him out. Would simply admitting that really harmony one?
For me the two main problems are puck possession and our inability to force takeaways in the D zone and both were completely exposed yesterday against the Habs. There was a sequence in the 2nd period where the Habs just went on for two minutes with the puck in our D zone 5 on 5 just cycling the puck and our players were just useless out there like they didn't know what player to cover. Also, when we do have the puck we seem to try to force plays that are not there and so we lose the possesion of the puck. Is it a roster problem ? Maybe ... We're a good team to attack on the rush or when we counter but we aren't able to create plays when the other team is well positionned on D. That is a problem and I think it may be more of a system problem then a roster problem. What do you guys think ?
They seem to have tuned him out. Would simply admitting that really harmony one?
After too many puns, a substantive post like this is music to my ears.