sabremike

What is wrong with this entire organization in a nutshell: a year after making the single worst most destructive trade in hockey history (a trade so bad it literally killed my Whalers) Ed Johnson was fired by Rich Gordon because even though he was among the worst NHL owners of all time even he knew Ed had to go. Botts makes among the most disastrous trades of all time that crushes his team and a year later faces no consequences whatsoever for his complete and total failure. And if we have yet another disaster I would not be shocked in the least if nobody is held accountable.

For starters: not acquire a player as terrible as Jimmy Vesey.

Better idea: Follow the Ticats!

Small real bad play that won't be noticed: Dahlin had the puck at the line and the Tampa player pressuring him was in our zone. Instead of doing everything he could to get the puck over the line and kill any danger he curls back and tries to keep possession.

I have absolutely NO idea how they were able to score that goal with two guys standing completely unmolested right in front of our goalie who we totally hung out to dry. Same Old you-know-what.

Here's the thing with Tampa: Their entire gameplan relies on throwing picks in both zones, and it's never called. I was in the 300's when we played them last season and everyone around me was laughing about how ridiculously obvious it was. They would have a guy try and get the puck out of their zone and one of their guys would throw a blatant pick on our forechecker.

Freaking wide open net and he muffs it.

I honestly don't know what was more ridiculous: that the dirtbag wasn't given a major and sent off or that he wasn't at least hit with an interference call because at the time he delivered the hit the puck was somewhere in Malmo.

RELEASE THE TAGE!!!!!!!!!

If you are spot on with that projection then at 81 points there was a 5 point improvement from last year. By last year's standings that would be the 8th worst record in the league. If that happens certain people in this organization are going to have a LOT to answer for.

Even though at this point if it were true Hasek would very likely have done what Eric Wynalda did a few years back and verify that DC Scum Captain 4 Life John Harkes had an affair with his wife before WC 98 (Which led to Harkes being dropped from the squad) he has repeatedly said there is no truth to it whatsoever.

Tip for our PP: Instead of being a bunch of statues standing in place watching Jack skate with the puck try moving around so as to draw the opposition out of position and create scoring chances.

I don't know where the whole video is online but I can tell you he did. Giraffe=The REAL King of The Jungle.

Show me another player capable of carrying a lion: #TeamMagicGiraffe

Taro!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I certainly believe it's far better than it was but two things I've noticed so far disturb me: 1) The line changes have been a real issue. In addition to multiple too many men penalties it feels as if we constantly execute a line change when it either kills off a rush the other way or leaves us in a position to get toasted the other way. Haven't got burned bad by this yet but if it continues it's only a matter of time. 2) It is painfully obvious that teams have figured out that when they hit us with an aggressive forecheck we look like chickens with our heads cut off. From what I've seen there has been no attempt to try and make a tactical adjustment to counter this. We all know there is a system in place, but if something isn't working you have to fix the problem.

Here you go:

*Mood*

I can confirm this is correct. Adidas distributed a set amount to the team store and will not be producing any more. The poor quality Fanatics replicas are still available (and I would like to say Fanatics taking over NHL merchandising has been horrible as the quality has plummeted while the prices have soared). Shame as that was going to be my birthday gift, maybe hit up Cozens junior team and get one of their jerseys instead.