I don't really care about the Goldobin situation, but this quote is hilarious considering Green continues to play Eriksson, Schaller, Granlund, and Motte .... all at the same time.
I don't really care about the Goldobin situation, but this quote is hilarious considering Green continues to play Eriksson, Schaller, Granlund, and Motte .... all at the same time.
I don't really care about the Goldobin situation, but this quote is hilarious considering Green continues to play Eriksson, Schaller, Granlund, and Motte .... all at the same time.
Green is a bad coach. Problem solved. There's nothing he does that is above average in any way.
Says Goldobin needs to bring more to the table, puts Eriksson on 2nd line, despite the former scoring more points at almost 1/6 of the cost.
OK Green, whatever makes you sleep at night.
Once again I reject the narrative that Green hates young players or whatever. He plays Schaller, Granlund, Motte etc. because he values (rightly or wrongly) their defensive play and PKing ability.
If "Golodibin" isn't scoring, he doesn't bring anything else that Green values. It is as simple as that. Young vs. old has nothing to do with it. Goldy and Motte were born 7 months apart FFS.
Does Schaller have any decent defensive ability though? I don’t see it. He’s not a liability sure.
This is obviously the point. Nobody is arguing it either. The irony is just that Green keeps all these crappy players in the line-up under some sort of misguided explanation that they bring "something." If you whipped out that stat on basically anyone in the Canucks line-up right now it wouldn't look particularly good. It's just that this is the coach simultaneously icing Eriksson, Motte, Granlund, and Schaller. These players all suck and are largely, at best, barely average defensively.
You'd likely be better off replacing at least one of them with Goldobin simply for the fact these guys are redundant, and Goldobin's shown the ability to produce materially more offense over an extended sample.
You need more guys to marginally contribute to our mediocre PK?
All of those players being discussed suck, including Goldobin. I hate to devolve the thread into a shot at Benning, but it is what it is. None of those players are good enough.