GDT: Game 54: Kings @ Coyotes, 7 PM AZ Time, BSAZ-Extra

[LittlePipes]

Lets face it. This team is not as good as the Kings. Probably not as good as the Sharks either. Maybe even with the Ducks.
The last 20 games could test the will of any fan.
Just pathetic.
Good job Tocchet. Helluva effort on fan depreciation night.

 

[JasonDemersWasOkay]

BA boasted at the trade deadline that this team earned his respect and earned the right to stick together to try for a playoff run.

In 13 games since that trade deadline, they have lost 10 of those games. I hope BA is humiliated about how this embarrassment has made him look.

He better be f***ing ready this summer.

 

[LittlePipes]

The Coyotes officially eliminated by the Kings who are still in it and will likely finish ahead of the sinking ship Coyotes. It was fan appreciation night, and the Coyotes were good to the large number of Kings fans in attendance, by letting Kopitar score his 1000th career point.

 

[The Feckless Puck]

The Coyotes officially eliminated by the Kings who are still in it and will likely finish ahead of the sinking ship Coyotes. It was fan appreciation night, and the Coyotes were good to the large number of Kings fans in attendance, by letting Kopitar score his 1000th career point.

Well, ya gotta be kind to the people who pay the bills.

 

[JasonDemersWasOkay]

The Coyotes officially eliminated by the Kings who are still in it and will likely finish ahead of the sinking ship Coyotes. It was fan appreciation night, and the Coyotes were good to the large number of Kings fans in attendance, by letting Kopitar score his 1000th career point.

Wouldn't be the first, second or 50th time the Coyotes have generously provided joyous moments to opposing fans in their own arena.

 

[TheLegend]

Well, ya gotta be kind to the people who pay the bills.

We even got a write up last week from the Vegas beat reporter how visiting fan friendly GRA is.

 

[LittlePipes]

I went to fan appreciation night to see Doan in his last season. The Coyotes were, of course, already eliminated. Minnesota beat the zero effort Coyotes badly. It was the worse hockey game Ive ever attended. So, the Coyotes got a streak going !

 

[JasonDemersWasOkay]

I went to fan appreciation night to see Doan in his last season. The Coyotes were, of course, already eliminated. Minnesota beat the zero effort Coyotes badly. It was the worse hockey game Ive ever attended. So, the Coyotes got a streak going !

I went to that game too! I definitely remember it as one of the worst I've ever attended, and it is even more sad to think it was Doan's last game and we didn't even know it. That 2016-17 year might be my least favorite season I've had as a fan.

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

The team couldn't be bothered to assemble at center ice and give the fans a stick raise. Lame. I did get a hat, black with the Kachina head logo on it. Also got a puck signed by Schmaltz. My wife got a puck signed by Kessel.

 

[rt]

The team couldn't be bothered to assemble at center ice and give the fans a stick raise. Lame. I did get a hat, black with the Kachina head logo on it. Also got a puck signed by Schmaltz. My wife got a puck signed by Kessel.

 

[rt]

BA boasted at the trade deadline that this team earned his respect and earned the right to stick together to try for a playoff run.

In 13 games since that trade deadline, they have lost 10 of those games. I hope BA is humiliated about how this embarrassment has made him look.

He better be f***ing ready this summer.

It would have been easy to diplomatic without being so f***ing complimentary. It pissed me off then and it pisses me off now. I was very irritated with the “what did you expect, for him to publicly shit on the team?” crowd. As though the binary decision was saccharine gushing or fire and brimstone damnation. There was an appropriately non committal middle ground. And he didn’t choose that road. And it worries me about him. A lot. He came in pounding tables and shouting at press conferences. Now we get this lapdog shit? Ain’t right. Bad omen.

 

[JasonDemersWasOkay]

It would have been easy to diplomatic without being so f***ing complimentary. It pissed me off then and it pisses me off now. I was very irritated with the “what did you expect, for him to publicly shit on the team?” crowd. As though the binary decision was saccharine gushing or fire and brimstone damnation. There was an appropriately non committal middle ground. And he didn’t choose that road. And it worries me about him. A lot. He came in pounding tables and shouting at press conferences. Now we get this lapdog shit? Ain’t right. Bad omen.

All we can hope for is that his actual attitude is different behind closed doors or has since changed. We'll see what he says at the locker cleanout.

 

[Snarky Coyote]

It may be a bad omen or it could be that there was nothing he could do with our lack of cap and lack of dollars. I cant judge a GM on less than a years body of work. Next year is everything, Tochet is a solid coach perhaps but he has lost the room here (if he ever had it, may be an OK boomer situation) and he needs to be gone. OEL either needs to be traded or gamble with a right coach he can be rejuvenated. Untouchables are Garland and Chychrun and even Garland for an overpayment I would move in a heartbeat. this time next year we can look back on GMBA and evaluate.

Hell I would fire everyone but the Wetzels Pretzels people if I could. Possibly why I cant get a job running a hockey team anywhere.

 

[CanadianCoyote]

GMBA didn't make us crash horribly in the last bit of the season, guys. He's added some important elements to this team that we needed to grow, and I can see some real improvement forming out of guys like Hill and Chychrun.

At this point, we need to seriously consider letting Tocchet go. He's coached us to one embarrassing playoff f***ing by Colorado which is his only season above .500 since he came on four seasons ago. Hell, we may even have to face the facts that we need to move some guys like OEL or Raanta.

GMBA isn't the problem. The on-ice team is. And the little snake Chayka f***ing our draft futures on the way out certainly isn't going to help him.

 

[XX]

It would have been easy to diplomatic without being so f***ing complimentary. It pissed me off then and it pisses me off now. I was very irritated with the “what did you expect, for him to publicly shit on the team?” crowd. As though the binary decision was saccharine gushing or fire and brimstone damnation. There was an appropriately non committal middle ground. And he didn’t choose that road. And it worries me about him. A lot. He came in pounding tables and shouting at press conferences. Now we get this lapdog shit? Ain’t right. Bad omen.

I fear the pendulum may have swung way, way too far in the other direction from Chayka. This dude may be an idiot as well, just in a completely different way. Only time will tell.

This summer has to be definitive.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Looking at that lineup it's amazing we are as high in standings as we are.

Great coaching

 

[rt]

It may be a bad omen or it could be that there was nothing he could do with our lack of cap and lack of dollars. I cant judge a GM on less than a years body of work. Next year is everything, Tochet is a solid coach perhaps but he has lost the room here (if he ever had it, may be an OK boomer situation) and he needs to be gone. OEL either needs to be traded or gamble with a right coach he can be rejuvenated. Untouchables are Garland and Chychrun and even Garland for an overpayment I would move in a heartbeat. this time next year we can look back on GMBA and evaluate.

Hell I would fire everyone but the Wetzels Pretzels people if I could. Possibly why I cant get a job running a hockey team anywhere.

Knowing he can’t make moves does not equal heaping unjustified praise. You can be diplomatic without healing on unjustified praise.

 

[Jakey53]

Do they watch film of the games? Think any of the players notice how many goals Bunting is standing in front of the net? Even the ones he's not scoring himself? Would be nice if a couple more guys adopt that ground breaking strategy.

Yup. He is always standing in front of the net. It was sure fun watching him this season. He won't keep up this pace, but as long as he hustles, and stands in front of the net he will become a valuable addition to the Yotes.

 

[Jakey53]

Only took LOL two and a half years to stick up for his own guys

He always has, he just doesn't fight. OEL is one of the toughest guys we have. He dishes it out, and he takes it.

 

[cobra427]

Yup. He is always standing in front of the net. It was sure fun watching him this season. He won't keep up this pace, but as long as he hustles, and stands in front of the net he will become a valuable addition to the Yotes.

A 25 year old rookie winger is now our savior after 20 games played, sad.

 

[Coyotedroppings]

The team couldn't be bothered to assemble at center ice and give the fans a stick raise. Lame. I did get a hat, black with the Kachina head logo on it. Also got a puck signed by Schmaltz. My wife got a puck signed by Kessel.

We got Pitlick and Ranta.... tradesies?

 

[LittlePipes]

He always has, he just doesn't fight. OEL is one of the toughest guys we have. He dishes it out, and he takes it.

you have to be effing joking

 

[LittlePipes]

Just watched the “line brawl” from Rangers Caps game yesterday. Geez, I’d pay a good amount to go to Coyote games if they had a little toughness like that. Right now, they are pansies. Except Garland.

 

[MIGs Dog]

Just watched the “line brawl” from Rangers Caps game yesterday. Geez, I’d pay a good amount to go to Coyote games if they had a little toughness like that. Right now, they are pansies. Except Garland.

More people would pay good money if they would just win more games than they lose.

 

[GiveAFlyingPuck]

We got Pitlick and Ranta.... tradesies?

Nah. Raanta probably injured himself signing those pucks.