tom webster

I know you are smarter then that. Upstairs, downstairs, uptempo, down tempo. A lot of it is just window dressing. Play calling is more of a process then anything else and evolves over time but it all comes down to players. This town has run offensive coordinators out of town who have ended up in the Super Bowl and who are now the talk of the league. When plays work, they are geniuses. The rest of the time they are either too conservative or too aggressive. Another thing, a large part of the use of the uptempo has to do with the fact that they have only two legitimate NFL receivers at the moment and Knox is both the best receiving TE and best blocking TE. I’d like one of the numbers guys calculate QB ratings for passes of more then ten yards downfield thrown to McKenzie, Roberts or Foster.

I will be disappointed if he doesn’t develop into a high end third liner

Isn’t that similar to what we used to say about Darcy? The idea isn’t to “win” trades, it’s to build a winning roster. I don’t think he survives the year unless they turn this around. That pressure people are talking about is real and it’s not pressure from the fan base that keeps him up at night.

This brings up an interesting question. At one point do we throw in the towel and not want JBOT in charge of any trades? When does the internal pressure to go something change to an internal memo not to trade any future picks or prospects?

After Dec 15th it’s something like $700K cash this year and “only” $4.25M next year. Definitely a cash floor or below cap spending team.

Is the Kings strategy, you can have Toffoli but you have to take Kovalchuk and convince him to come?

Second this.

Exactly this.

Yes, trading Peca set this franchise back a few years.

He’s(Seiling) actually a well respected banker in Rochester area and very active in women’s hockey although he was mysteriously fired by PSE. People change and I regret the post and thus am deleting it. By the way, I like the way you seamlessly go from living personality to dead personality.

He made Harvey Weinstein look chilvarous. All sorts of other stories about how he treated wife and kids.

Yes, I did forget about that.

Lorentz had a surprisingly, very good career and Ric Seiling would be a lot more well thought of except he wasn’t Mike Bossy.

Two things I’ll always remember about Korab. 1) Punch acquired him to be a left winger. He thought Tommy Abrahamson(?) was going to come from Sweden and be the next Borje Salming 2) that Russian game. If he played consistently like that, he might have been a top ten guy for me.

Hoping I didn’t come across like a jerk. By the way, last I heard Mrs. Ink was in the shower getting ready. Hope that went well.

I’m sure you read the article which actually said that while he had a surprisingly good game Sunday, he has been lacking this season.

91 is not a run stuffer. They need Star to be better. Williams is making plays all over the field already that most MLB couldn’t even get to. He will look a lot better when 91 is wreaking havoc and somebody is playing Star better then Star is playing Star.

First, he makes a lot of plays others couldn’t make. Second, he will look a lot better when they have a true run stuffer in front of him.

You have to remember the era. Peca’s stats came in the dead puck era. I think Luce gets the edge but it’s close.

But you continue to diminish what Hawerchuk and Turgeon did while they were here, which was significant. I’m not saying your are wrong in your valuation, I am saying that the argument is much tougher. In addition, somehow Foligno gets a pass on the team’s playoff futility while Turgeon seems to get the blame. I think would be surprised by Turgeon’s playoff numbers. I know they would be surprised if they were able to watch the series his first two years and see how much he controlled play and almost willed them out of the drought,

A lot of the early players were like that. They left home at an early age and there were few rules and less supervision. And the owners loved it. Made it easy to keep them in line before guys like Ted Lindsay and others came along.

Thanks for awakening a WKRP memory when Johnny Fever realized that turning a profit was merely a theoretical concept.

It’s funny because I was thinking overrated

I just rated the guys in your post but I’d give him slight nod over Drury.

Don Luce and Rammer were always joined at the hip and I would rate them close to equal. my order would be Luce Turgeon Hawechuk Drury Vanek Pominville