nfreeman

I watched episode 2 last night. Very good one IMHO. I agree with sabills' post above about how the show makes really good TV out of those extended wordless scenes of Mike doing cool PI stuff. My question on Jimmy's latest spot of trouble is: is Kim going to get PO'd at him for doctoring the papers? Is she going to feel obligated to resign her representation of her big client -- since it's an ill-gotten gain?

Lombardi is 58. He's not going to take a senior czar role, and he's not going to take the GM job with an understanding that he'll move aside for a younger guy in 2 years. If he's hired, he's the GM, period.

Really? To communicate with aliens? I'm not denigrating-- just interested. Would like to hear more if you feel like sharing it with us. No problem either way, of course.

I find it astonishing that some people need to be told not to make posts as idiotic and offensive as the ones you graced us with. And yet, you clearly do, so here it is, loud and clear: Don't do it again.

JFC. You do realize that MacArthur missed essentially two full seasons with a very serious concussion, yes? And yet you feel it's funny or clever to make yet another terrible joke about a player suffering a really freaking serious injury? WTF is wrong with you?

I'll say NFW on either of them interviewing for and getting the top job in a new organization in the next 2 years. I could see either of them working his way back to it over time, and perhaps more quickly as an internal promotion from the #2 job after the top guy gets canned.

Outstanding.

Yes indeed, and he also mentioned winning & competing for the cup a few times.

Again: let's see the specific quote from TP on this point before we start making assumptions about TP's hiring criteria. Was it a reason that TP "favored" him -- i.e. preferred him to other candidates? Or perhaps just a reason that TP admired him? There's a big difference between those 2 concepts. Again again: what about Rex, and what about firing DDB?

For those claiming that TP has some kind of faith-based criteria for his FO/coaching candidates: pls post the specific quote, with a link. I think there's far too much in here along the lines of "TP is religious, he said he admires McDermott's faith, he said it's important to hire people with character, and he's a simpleton, so he must think religious faith is the same as character, so he's only going to hire religious people." It's a pretty slipshod syllogism built heavily on distrust of either or both of religion and TP. It's also completely belied by the hiring of Rex (and I think by the firing of DDB -- IIRC, he's religious).

Great stuff 3putt.

Awesome.

^^ Indeed. I think some of that free-and-easy British Columbia cannabis may be in order.

Whoa. How did PA hack your account? And what has Drury said specifically to give rise to this interpretation?

At that point in time, ownership --not the franchise -- deserved to be disdained. Drury was ready and willing to re-sign, and they jerked him around for an extended period, so, like pretty much anyone else would do, he left.

What is the basis for the concern that Kim P. will become a drunken racist? Or a bad sports owner?

This isn't a bad idea, but it doesn't seem like it would be compelling from Drury's perspective, as it would be pretty much the same job he has now.

Well, Drury has worked in the Rangers' FO for 2 years. His first year, he was Director of Player Development, and he was then promoted to AGM. The Rangers are a pretty well-run organization. It's probably too soon for him to get a GM job, so I think I'll withdraw my endorsement of GA's idea. But the reason to want Drury is that he knows what is required to win, he knows how to approach the game the right way, he cares deeply about winning and he's been successful at it for his entire career. If he'd been AGM for 4 years instead of 1, I'd be pounding the table for him.

Indeed it was, and I too would be fine with Lombardi/Drury as the brain trust.

I thought the 76K must've been an exaggeration for comic effect, and then I went back and checked the numbers. Yikes. Among the many, many reasons I am glad for the return of Liger is his gift for the gif.

I agree that PA was wrong, but to be fair, TP's words today are evidence that PA was wrong only if you believe TP's words.

This sounds right.

While TP might want better decorum, I have a hard time believing that this was all about decorum. I agree that TP seems fed up with the snakepit quality that the organization seems to have. But I also wouldn't be surprised if it extends to the players, and if Kaner is indeed shown the door. C'mon. I know you're down on TP, but do you really think he fired FGMTM purely for image reasons? i.e. that he's that shallow and foolish? The second bolded line kinda contradicts the first -- if the organization had gotten sloppy due to sloppiness at the top, isn't that inherently a real problem -- i.e. not just an image problem? I suppose that question presupposes that the sloppiness had manifested in the results -- but the results are freaking terrible, right? So is TP not justified in seeing a train wreck and being dissatisfied? Woo-hoo! Me too.

Well, he said build a stronger organization, top to bottom -- that likely means more than just a GM. Interesting. Yes -- it sounds like the team just seemed like a train wreck to him and that FGMTM and DDB were not keeping things shipshape. Not sure what the basis for this is. Separately: with all of the emphasis on character, I wonder whether RB might get shown the door at some point this summer?

As for the original post -- I think this construes in the worst possible light a series of decisions that were each reasonable at the time they were made. Keeping Darcy and Lindy and giving them more $$ to work with than OSP had provided -- totally reasonable in light of their prior success. Firing Darcy and Rolston when the team was DFL and getting booed off the ice at home -- who here didn't agree with that? Bringin PLF on as the overseer, with job #1 being to help find the new GM, and with Nolans to keep the coach's seat warm during an interim period -- reasonable. PLF wasn't just sitting on his couch when TP offered him the job. He was working for the NHL and knew a lot of people. The GM search seemed professionally conducted. Firing PLF -- if, as has been murmured, PLF really couldn't handle a work environment due to CTE -- reasonable. Firing Black -- does this even matter? Presumably he lost a power struggle with RB, which is hardly unusual. Firing DDB -- this seems like a no-brainer. Firing FGMTM -- this one is trickier. Certainly it's reasonable to think that he wasn't given quite enough rope. But he had 3 offseasons and 4 trade deadlines, and the team was undeniably terrible at both the NHL and AHL levels. The game they played was boring. The opponent inevitably controlled play. The locker room was fractured. The franchise player was clearly unhappy. And an entire season went by with GMTM doing zero to improve the situation. It wasn't crazy, or even knee-jerk, to want to move on.