Tim Connolly...
He is in the minors. Pretty sure he has to clear waivers. Wonder if we could convince Toronto to call him up to get him half price. Or is that gone with the new CBA?
Tim Connolly...
I totally agree with this. Brule and Chip were an awesome duo in the playoffs and Tores would only add to that. I would not mind us trading for an a higher quality center to go with it and Klinkhammer or Buldoc should be in the line up with Biz out. Buldoc isn't getting a fair shake if we don't give him any minutes.We need Gilbert Brule back and Raffi Torres unsuspended.
So that is that. I guess he's still good insurance. God forbid we lose another center in a few weeks, we've got one potentially coming back in Lombardi. That said, we now need to acquire a center if we want to earn a playoff spot.
I know it's early on, but at what point does Maloney just say **** it, scrub this season and just bring up some guys that could use the development in this fluke of a season? I mean we're off to a horrible start, number one goalie is out for key games, our center depth went from acceptable to below average in one game, and we STILL don't have an owner to throw money at us to go out and get talent to attempt to salvage this season. How many more dollar for dollar deals can we pull off without giving up too much at the expense of injuries? How many more times are we going to dumpster dive to try and find something worth while? Let's just get Miele and Rundblad up here and hope we can actually develop something other than two or three players over the span of 10 years. Let's also hope that Maloney isn't sick of this budget crap and doesn't leave us at his contracts end. I'm so sick of this. I would punch Jerry Moyes in the ****in face if i could. I'm going to start slashing tires on every SWIFT truck i see.
**** it, roll the dice and bring up some young guns from Portland. Maybe it works out. Maybe it doesn't, but is that so bad in a 48 game season? One with an exceptionally deep draft at that? If we're horrible due to lack of experience, so be it. We got our prospects some key development, we won't have an asterisk next to a Stanley Cup victory had we even had a CHANCE of winning it, and we'll get a solid draft pick in one of the deepest drafts in a long time. I've never been a supporter of tanking, i think you should give 110% every chance you get, so don't get it twisted, I'm not suggesting that. Like i said, roll the dice
I keep hearing this rant at the start of every season. And btw, Swift hires independent truckers and under pays them, so you'll be putting extra burden on someone that already has enough problems... I have confidence in Maloney. The roster looked good at the start of the season (at least on paper). These Tippet-coached-Coyote Teams tend to be streaky. Look where this team was last year at this time. something like 12th place.
Am i the only one that's not allowed to have a rant in this place? Skip my *****ing and actually think about what i saod. Would it really be THAT bad of an odea to use our injury woes as a chance to develop some of our high end prospects? Why continue to give up assests for average players when we could have diamonds in the rough that we don't even know about?
Why continue to give up assests for average players when we could have diamonds in the rough that we don't even know about?
There must be a reason Don and Tip don't feel the same way.
Oh come on, Miele's ALWAYS been a long shot. I never understood the excitement when he signed. The guy would really need to show something special in order to have patience with his defensive learning curve.
The ranting about prospects not getting playing time is getting old. We make the playoffs every year and finally grow some solid NHL players like Korpikoski, Boedker, Yandle, Hanzal etc..., and yet the *****ing about nobodies like Porter, Tikhonov or Miele never stops.
We're a defense-first team. The roster was built from the goalie out. We wanted wins and playoffs, we got them. Prospects will HAVE to be defensively responsible and work their ass off in order to get playing time. It's tough, but not impossible, as illustrated by our young players.
If you're looking for high-flying offense, this is not the team for you. I'd much rather suffer through a couple ******* prospects flaming out than watching a young, offensive, losing team like the Avs.
Miele might very well by our new Bill Thomas. Big ****ing whoop.
Eh, sorry. Had a rough day, I was grumpy. Lol