Confirmed with Link: Playfair Out

[KG]

Country club for sure. Jeez. Great news

 

[Guest]

I love how the good news just keeps coming. Next week it will come out that Matthews is requesting a trade to the Coyotes or something LOL.

 

[Ebb]

I love how the good news just keeps coming. Next week it will come out that Matthews is requesting a trade to the Coyotes or something LOL.

I'd settle for a more confirmed arena deal, but I doubt that happens.

I'm hoping Matthews ends up a Coyote eventually, but it may take a while

 

[Jakey53]

I want to see effort and the kids given a chance to grow into key roles, not just lip service to the idea.

If we finish with 56 points, but they play like they give more than half-assed effort and we're letting them grow instead of crushing them, I'll be perfectly happy. I would've been happy if that happened and Tippett was the coach, but we were more interested in making sure good guy Dave Moss and his motley teamful of misfits were getting an NHL paycheck and playing all the special teams icetime they could handle.

That is exactly what happened last year. The kids progressed a ton.

 

[_Del_]

Lol Well, that's obviously not what I saw the last three years. And based on the rhetoric, that isn't what Chayka and the Butcher saw either...

 

[Jakey53]

Don't believe everything they say. I think it was a money issue. There's no way they wanted to keep the guy after letting everybody else go. Pretty sure put some pressure on him as well. Deal probably was that he leaves with little or no money but gets to say that it was his decision to leave. Makes him look a lot better.

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I doubt it was about money.

Noone cares why he left. Every one knows a new head coach is going to want his own crew and that Jimmy was on his way out. It doesn't make him look better. I have no problem believing he asked to not waste any more of his time working the offseason for a club that doesn't want him and that he has no future at instead of becoming immediately available to seek out other opportunities. Don't blame him at all. Just glad he's gone.

Exactly.

 

[Jakey53]

Lol Well, that's obviously not what I saw the last three years. And based on the rhetoric, that isn't what Chayka and the Butcher saw either...

Chayka has said more than once that he likes our group of kids and the way they are progressing.

 

[Summer Rose]

The greatest off-season ever just got even better.

 

[Matias Maccete]

Holy ****. This just keeps getting better and better.

 

[Ebb]

Chayka has said more than once that he likes our group of kids and the way they are progressing.

Do you actually think he would publicly say "I really don't like our group of young players and their development is for shist."

 

[0point1]

****ing love it. Cleaning house!

 

[zerekstar]

Another loose end tied up. Very good news.

 

[Muppet]

Just when I thought this couldn't get any better. This is brilliant.

 

[Lilhoody]

The greatest off-season ever just got even better.

Indeed. I really struggled with renewing ST's...now I'm glad and am debating an upgrade.