Two things, and then I'm going to bow out. I've been on this board for more than two hours now and its coming up to 5:30 AM here now. Thank God hockey season is back
1. What about the post I made earlier asking, how it is that Yakupov can have success with Roy (and I don't dispute that he did)? Derek Roy, whose last "good" NHL season was 2009? Derek Roy who just signed in Switzerland because nobody in the NHL wanted him anymore. At any price. Is it your contention that playing Yakupov with Derek Roy is "giving the player service", but playing him with actual NHL players is not?
Yakupov played a fair bit with Gagner, no? You and I both like Gagner as a player. Smart, good passer, offensively talented, works well with others. Most people on this board would probably say Derek Roy and Sam Gagner are the same guy, personally I think Gags is better. My question; focusing strictly on offense (never mind the +/-) did you ever see Yakupov lighting the world on fire with Gagner?
I'm sorry, but none of that makes sense. Incompetence I get. The evidence is all over the place. Flat out engaging in a vendetta against a guy you wasted a whole season in order to have the privilege of choosing is a different matter all together. The situation we have right now with this player is mostly on the player. He isn't playing an NHL game.