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I hope we fire Trotz during or after this season. Team needs a new direction. Don't know who was instrumental in the decision making of signing Hutton but those responsible should go too. Same goes for pretty much the rest of the summer's acquisitions. We could have gotten Grabovski to give us some offensive power but got other teams junk. If Poile was the one making all these decisions I say cut him loose too.
I remain doubtful that any of these firings are going to take place because either the team ownership doesn't know or care enough about hockey or we are just too nice of an organization. Even the Titans cut their coach twice already.
If fans get really frustrated and stop spending money on this team, just watch. Our ownership group is a collection of businessmen, and falling profits will speak to them.
The very mention of people like Grabovski, Lecavalier, Filpulla (sp?), etc. being free agents this summer makes me cringe. I was in the northwoods wildneress of Maine when all of this went down (the last thing I heard before I lost cell reception was a text saying "we take Jones"). When I back, my brother called me and updated me on the off-season and I had a meltdown.
Of course, there's no guarantee these guys would have signed here, but we can't use money as an excuse when we dished out these awful contracts to Nystrom and Hendricks.
The Hutton issue...don't even get me started. I had hope early, but that experiment has failed. Could you imagine if Mazenec didn't come out of nowhere? A Hutton-Hellberg tandem would have us easily 4-6 points worse right now.