This team is getting a top 10 pick
While we needed a coaching change as well, Poile needs to make some roster moves. We have a team that looks good on paper but not so good in reality.
Think Turris needs to be moved, not because of anything personal but I feel like he is a man without a place and that cap room could be better used for a decent winger.
Far from the only problem tonight but icing 3 AHL quality defenseman and a 4th that is bottom pair at best isn't helping either.
Trade Johansen for a better return. Let one of Granlund/Smith walk and sign Hall.While we needed a coaching change as well, Poile needs to make some roster moves. We have a team that looks good on paper but not so good in reality.
Think Turris needs to be moved, not because of anything personal but I feel like he is a man without a place and that cap room could be better used for a decent winger.
I think this is being just a little overlooked by some- i don’t care who the coach is or what changes we make- without Ellis and Fabbro we have very little chance Of beating anyone. The 3-6 d men we are throwing out there probably the worst in the entire league
Maybe you didn't read that right. Irwin, Weber, Hamhuis, Tinordi. Even the Wings aren't worse. Who have they got? Nemeth, Bowey, Biega, Lashoff? It's a wash at best.Not even close. The wings d is far worse
Oh I completely agree. My point was less about tonight's game specifically and more about the team overall. Really probably should have put it in the Observation thread.Far from the only problem tonight but icing 3 AHL quality defenseman and a 4th that is bottom pair at best isn't helping either.
There are CHL powerplays that are much better than the Predator's PP. All that money and name players, and they just rim the puck back and forth with all the hockey IQ of a metronome.They have a 5-on-3 and they're cycling the puck around the perimeter and taking shots from the tops of the circles. Why are they not taking the puck to the net?
Do his comments after his benching make anyone else scratch their head a little? The coaches said nothing to him about it? He came back and played "*exactly* the same way"?Think Turris needs to be moved, not because of anything personal but I feel like he is a man without a place and that cap room could be better used for a decent winger.
laviolette had the chance to answer any of those questions at any point with the media. he chose not to. that debacle is on laviolette and poile.Do his comments after his benching make anyone else scratch their head a little? The coaches said nothing to him about it? He came back and played "*exactly* the same way"?
I wonder if he asked the coaches why he was benched, and if not why not. And why, if he didn't change whatever got him benched, he didn't get benched again. The Turris situation, with the benching and his lack of production, is a mystery.
You nailed it.My continued larger concern is the will power of everyone not named Smith, Bonino, Grimaldi or Josi.
Everyone else I think needs to be reevaluated as a core part to this team.
Marchand, Pasta and Berg. That is what elite talent looks like and either our guys don't have that talent, or they just aren't rising to the occasion. I don't know which is worse.
Coaches don't call out individual players in press conferences. Certainly not if they like their jobs.laviolette had the chance to answer any of those questions at any point with the media. he chose not to. that debacle is on laviolette and poile.
Heh. Josi has a ways to go to reach Karlsson levels, though. To do that, he'll need to start taking shifts off, leisurely reacting to breakaways and turnovers, standing in the low slot and eating a corn dog watching the play ...You nailed it.
our elite talent isn't elite. it's good. nothing about it is great. I'm tired of hearing about this team's talent. one man has shown me elite talent this year and that's josi. and he reminds me of karlsson defensively every other game.
Trenin is a crazy person and I love it. Huge balls of steel on this one.