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Flames Season Review - Darryl Sutter
Kent Wilson
April 08 2010 11:58AM
It is no hyperbole to state that this Flames season has been an abject failure from just about every conceivable angle. And it's no exaggeration to claim the the fault of this catastrophic failures lies at the feet of the club's sole, obstinate architecht, one Darryl Sutter. As the authoritarian, patriarchal overseer of this now Sutter-homogenized fiefdom, he gathered to him all his family and followers, firmly wrested control of the organization from his ostensible superiors and, without apology or regret, steered the ship straight into an iceberg.
The gravest indictment of the Jolly Rancher isn't, in fact, the lack of a playoff berth. That just lends pragmatic weight and clarity to the principled objections to his leadership and management. Plenty of good teams miss the post-season now and then for various reasons - since approximately half the league is excluded from the dance every year and lady luck is hardly egalitarian with her affections - golfing after 82 games isn't, in and of itself, reason enough to convict a General Manager of ineptitude.
No, finishing 9th or 10th isn't why Sutter should finally be usurped from his gilded throne. One merely needs to look backwards and forwards in time in order to come to that conclusion. From this spot amongst the wreckage of 09-10 season, one can discern the bold and obvious trend line which made this outcome inevitable. Perhaps more disturbing, projecting forward suggests this season's disappointment is likey to to continue in perpetuity should Sutter remain as the organizations sneering autocrat.
A GM has one, obvious, overarching, principle goal: to build a winner. That goal is balanced by two, sometimes competing endpoints: "win now" or "win later". The best managers are able to build a team with both endpoints in mind. The mediocre ones often vacillate between the two depending on the circumstances while the worst can do neither. Since the 03-04 playoff run (perhaps both the best and worst thing to happen to this franchise in the last decade) Sutter has opted for "win now", mostly eschewing a moderate, balanced approach to team building. Some could argue that the finals appearance forged a sort of path dependence in the mind of the Flames decision maker, one that has forever guided his decisions and colored the timbre and attitude of his tenure. Sutter had an elite team, you understand. One always just a tweek or two away from re-visiting the glory of a deep playoff run. And with each first round disappointment, with each inexorable step away from the core players peak seasons, Sutter has seemingly become more convinced that the oasis is just over the next hill, more ensured of his inevitable final victory, more insulated in his tower of babel and yet paradoxically more frenzied in his attempts to push the team over the top.
Ironically, it's been Sutter's flavor of "go for it" that has sunk the team into mediocrity since 03/04, and painted the franchise into the cap-strapped corner it's in now. His tendency to fill roster spots with known commodities - ex-Sutterites and veterans - has bloated the roster's budget and bled the team of cheap talent. As Darryl has gone about locking up key pieces to long-terms deals and exponentially more expensive contract extensions, he's also surrounded them with slowing vets and dubious reclamation projects, many of whom for multi-year, multi-million dollar deals.
That was my take on the Flames season. In 2008. There's a reason it seems eerily similar to the club's current predicament: Sutter has been treading this path for a long while. The difference this year, of course, is the fact that the team's future has never looked bleaker thanks to his rabidly desperate mid-season machinations. It's one thing to gamble future success for short term gain. It's another thing entirely to make objectively bad bets. Sutter's moves were all with an eye to firming up the team's immediate present. None of them did that. What's more, none of them were likely to do that. His only remotely defensible trade - Dion Phaneuf for Maple Leafs parts - didn't even move the needle in terms of improving the club's offensive struggles. The rest of his bartering was, to be polite, inscrutible. There hasn't been a comment or analysis yet that renders the Olli Jokinen for Chris Higgins and Ales Kotalik trade remotely sensible. Dustin Boyd for a 4th round lottery ticket grows ever more ridiculous the further away we get from it. And the Steve Staios acquisition, well...that's yet another sacrifice before Sutter's near fetishized regard for "leadership and experience" - even though those particular qualities have never proven to be all that useful in actually winning games. The team grew heavier in Sutter's desperation - older, more plodding and more cap bloated than ever. What's more, he has nothing to show for his riverboat gambles: not in the form of current success and not in the form of optimism for future success.
Next season, the club is poised to pay nearly $10 million dollars to the likes of Cory Sarich, Steve Staios and Ales Kotalik. The franchise has a bulk of it's dollars committed to players over the age of 30 (Jarome Iginla, Daymond Langkow, Robyn Regehr, Miikka Kiprusoff, the others aforementioned), meaning the core is aging and beyond it's peak season(s). It has zero difference makers in the organizational pipeline and, with all of two choices inside the top 60 picks over the next two entry drafts, almost no chance of picking up another one any time soon. The best of Iginla, Kipper, Reghr and Langkow has been squandered. There is precious little in the way of budgetary flexibility and prospects to replace them. The assets in hand have been used almost to the point of obsolence while the currency of the future has been spent.
This is the worst of both worlds.
Many, many difficult decisions face this team going forward. The question is, should Sutter be the man tasked with making them?
Glance again at the wreckage of the season. Recognize that it is not ill-fortune but the excercise of principles of operating under a cap environment - principles that Sutter has ceaslessly sought to flout for the purpose of "winning now". Observe that Sutter has now delievered the club back to the apparent hopelessness from whence he retrieved it.
Realize that the answer is "no".
Nice article, Kent. He really needs to go.
I could not agree more. I want desperately for TPTB to realize that Sutter isn't the man to fix the mess this team is in. And then let the new guy figure out what to do with Iggy, Regehr, Kipper et al.
Awesome work. Scary how similar it is to last year's analysis, just with a few more trade examples to throw on the evidence pile. I'm sure the ownership is coming to the same conclusions as you are, but I guess we'll have to wait. When the announcement comes, you, WI, and myself can either celebrate or commiserate on the patio at the Ship.
Oh, and you said "fetish". *grin*
Kent, you make being a Flames fan for the next few years appear to be about the most depressing thing I can imagine. I've always been a "glass is half-full" guy but it appears the glass is empty.
Oh man, it really is bad.
Oh snap! Absolutely 100% well put. I think I might frame your writeup. Since the beginning of March, Daz has ruined all my enjoyment in following the Flames. The fact you have been able to capture my anger in words leaves me dumbfounded. But my serious concern going forward with the Flames is that I just don't feel comfortable with Daz making anymore decisions for the team. I'm willing to give his brother the benefit of the doubt but Daz has to go. At some point too, I think the franchise should never hire, draft, or acquire anymore Sutters than they already have.
In a lot of ways, Sutter reminds me of Pat Quinn during his first few years in TO. Joining up mid-season, coaching a decent playoff run, handed the GM reins shortly thereafter. He also was responsible for not surrounding his team's sole superstar -- in this case, Mats Sundin -- with no appreciable talent worthy of a Stanley Cup contender. Like the Flames, the Leafs at the time had some moderate success in the regular season coupled with a sequence of early round exits.
The primary differences are that Sutter stepped down from coaching after a couple of years, whereas Quinn eventually relinquished his GM duties. That, and the Flames had Kiprusoff, whose penchant for stealing games did more to keep Sutter in Calgary than anything else.
I like Sutter. His rude attitude toward the press doesn't bother me. I'm a results-oriented fan, meaning if the results aren't there, someone has to be made responsible.
In summary, I have nothing more to add to Kent's comments.
I'm tired of making excuses.
I've never been a fan of Darryl's and the comments you made are bang on - missing the playoffs is not 'the' reason to fire him, but I think it needed to happen in order to get some focus on the inadequate job that he is doing.
I blame him for the poor style of play (read: lack of offense) as he attempts to recreate the coaching style of 03-04 with every coach he hires. Each coach takes this team to exactly where they should be (somewhere between 6th and 8th place in the west) and then is ousted for not making a miraculous run in the playoffs.
I blame him for destroying this teams future with bad contracts on underachieving players.
I blame him for not allowing the future players of this team to develop properly.
I've never understood this "In Sutter we trust" BS that has been prevalent in this city. He took Craig Button's team to the cup final and lost (No, that 'goal' was NOT in). Then he dismantled that team to put his own stamp on it, continually moving the focus from offense to defense, from future to now, and from young to old.
Now we have one of the best defensive, and absolutely the most boring, team in the NHL. And the worst part is that short of some miracle, it isn't going to change.
And for Pete's sake, can we keep Iginla? Give him an offense to play with? There are 29 teams salivating at the rumour that he might be traded.
It is no hyperbole to state that this Flames season has been an abject failure from just about every conceivable angle.
That's a relief. I wouldn't want the use of hyperbole to make the language of this post any more flowery and verbose.
On a more serious note, excellent post. As a Rangers fan, I'm fascinated to see the other side of incompetency in the GM's position. I also empathize with what it's like to have a GM who offers a substantial body of failed work to draw conclusions but still remains in his lofty perch. I respect the Calgary franchise a great deal, and hope you get the new direction that the Flames have lacked since 2003-04.
Sweet tap dancing ghost of Christmas Past!
That is a slam dunk of an article if I have ever seen one.
A fan of the worst team in the NHL
Excellent work.
Between you and George Johnson, Sutter has been given a nice heaping plate of humble pie. Not that he'll care to eat it.
Here's my take: Sutter inherited an underrated team and got it on a roll at the right time (04). A few tweaks were all that was needed to bring the trophy home, or so many of us thought.
Who better than a no-nonsense Alberta legend to make those tweaks?
It would take a grievous lack of judgment to disagree that Sutter has made as many bad tweaks as good, overpaying on the majority of them. He's been given time, a budget, freedom, and a revolving door of coaches.
At some point, everybody's accountable. And yet how can it be that two Calgary Herald reporters are declaring his job safe?
Disregard the "here's my take," since it's essentially YOUR take. I just happen to agree very strongly.
April 08 2010, 05:28PM
The Staios trade has to go down as one of the biggest head-scratchers to date.
Defense was the last place they needed to shore up, and they are tied-in for another year.
@Kent Wilson
It's a fair point, though the one major difference is that Sather is still fairly decent at trades. For example, he clearly fleeced Sutter and the Flames in the Jokkinen/Prust for Kotalik trade and previously managed to bury the Gomez contract in Montreal.
Slats just undoes all that goodwill by signing an albatross like Redden or Brashear, or vastly overpaying a good-but-not-great player like Drury. It would take quite a while for the Flames to catch up to the Rangers in the reckless spending department, and here's hoping Sutter doesn't get that chance for you guys.
But they both clearly lack any kind of real direction. It's the cardinal sin of any GM and really drives your points home.
April 08 2010, 05:40PM
Get off Staios, he had a great season, look at these stats:
Steve Staios
Hell of a trade.
April 08 2010, 06:49PM
Good read Kent. I hope they just completely gut this team's front office this offseason, and give the reigns to a regime that understands the core of this team won't be able to compete in the New NHL. I like the New York Knicks approach- dismantle the team and acquire a bunch of expiring contracts that will be gone. After a brutal losing season, a couple years of high draft picks and some marquee free agents down the road should help recreate a winning atmosphere. Unless they can somehow rebuild on the fly like Anaheim is doing, but you need a Getzlaf, Perry and Ryan to really do that- the Flames don't have that luxury at all. Our assets are all going to rapidly decline soon- why not deal some of these guys to teams before its too late? Washington would love a Regehr, Chicago would love a Kiprusoff, and St Louis could use a responsible centre like Langkow as they approach the future with their growing nucleus of youth.
The Flames miss the playoffs one year and this journalist is asking for Darrly to be fired. Is he kidding??? I thought George Johnson was a sensationalist hack, this journalist is even worse. The Flames were more or less the laughing stock of the league from 1996-2003 before he arrived. He aquired Kiprusoff, Bouwmeester, and Bourque for vitually nothing. The Flames were one of the top defensive teams in the league this year. So 3 guys (Kotalik, Hagman, Higgins,) this year didn't produce. If they would have lived up to their 20+ goal potential/track record the Flames would have made the playoffs. Lets not forget that Jokinen didn't produce either and he was a 30+ goal scorer. Oh ya, let's not forget that Phaneuf hasn't scored ONCE with the Leafs. Don't run this guy out of town. You'll be sorry you did. What is the alternative?
April 08 2010, 09:42PM
Yeah thats the thing. I disagree with you on Sutter, he isn't the savior you paint him as, but who could replace him?
Up until a month ago or so, I'd been defending Sutter to some extent because it has always felt to me like deep sixing Sutter meant a complete overhaul, and that in turn means a return to the 97-2004 period, which sucked in every way. Anyone advocating a complete teardown has always seemed to me like they didn't live through those years.
However, they've now reached the point where they're already there. I've always figured that if they can build around the core and keep flexibility, they'd be alright. But suddenly the flexibility is gone - there are too many large contracts for too long and tearing down is the only way to start the rebuild. And Sutter can't be the one to do the rebuild.
The Flames miss the playoffs one year and this journalist is asking for Darrly to be fired. Is he kidding??? I thought George Johnson was a sensationalist hack, this journalist is even worse. The Flames were more or less the laughing stock of the league from 1996-2003 before he arrived. He aquired Kiprusoff, Bouwmeester, and Bourque for vitually nothing. The Flames were one of the top defensive teams in the league this year. So 3 guys (Kotalik, Hagman, Higgins,) this year didn't produce. If they would have lived up to their 20+ goal potential/track record the Flames would have made the playoffs. Lets not forget that Jokinen didn't produce either and he was a 30+ goal scorer. Oh ya, let's not forget that Phaneuf hasn't scored ONCE with the Leafs. Don't run this guy out of town. You'll be sorry you did. What is the alternative?
As an Oiler fan, we've said that about O'Sullivan, Gagner, and Penner (up until this year)
if the TML had their 3rd liners produce 20/40 per season, they'd be a playoff team
an easy retort would be that if Bouwmeester, Iginla, and Kipper got hurt, they'd be 29-30th place team ( Edmonton has 30th locked up )
I'm no physics major, but potential energy isn't movement, it's standing still With no picks and aging stars, the Flames may be in worse shape than the team up north, who've atleast hit their low point
April 08 2010, 10:13PM
I still need someone - anyone - to explain to me why Jay Bouwmeester is seen as an asset. Failure just follows that guy around.
April 08 2010, 11:14PM
Great, great piece Kent. I'm going to pump this on Overtime as much as I can.
@Kent Wilson
Umm... wow. I totally did not see it coming when you dropped that paragraph from 2008! Good stuff dude! I've made it known that I'm a long-time Darryl supporter... I find it increasingly hard to disagree with your take. I like his body of work until this season. I'm in the minority that would like to see him given one more year to clean his mess up. The problem - based on this past season alone, I'm not sure if I can trust him to do so (whereas you seem to be certain you can't trust him to do so). I'm open to change, but I'm also open to one more year of Daz Dillinger.
April 09 2010, 12:07AM
you hit it right on the head 5 years of sutter (suffer) style hockey is enough.you have to be able to score in the west to win.
April 09 2010, 12:13AM
you hit it right on the head 5 years of sutter (suffer) style hockey is enough.you hav e to be able to score in the west to win. regeer,too slow,bowmiester a pilon,sarich not good enough for the money
April 09 2010, 12:25AM
@Stienberg - That's pretty brave of you Pat. /tips hat
Good read indeed Kent. Outside of the fact that draft and prospect wise we are essentially hosed for a couple of years, the one glaring mistake I feel Darryl made and I felt I needed to comment on is the dismantling of the cup contender after the '04 run. I think about it still and was never able to understand why on earth he refused to resign Conroy (gone again after this season?) and Gelinas after that season. I know Conroy wanted more than Sutter was willing to pay, but man those two guys alone seemed like 1/2 the heart of the organization. Nevermind the fact that Iginla and Conroy actually had chemistry back then but Gelinas was so clutch down the stretch and into the final. I have to admit I was astounded. Seriously Darryl? No rewards for effort here? That '03-'04 team was one of the hardest working and committed group of players I've ever seen.
At this point, my feeling is that Brent deserves to stick around. This team is in the top 5 defensively in the league, and yeah I agree trading scrubs for more scrubs at the deadline seems lame duck but let's face it, Darryl, if left sleeping in the bed he's made, he's gonna have to jettison the chaff. Looks like Hagman and Stajan will stick for sure but Higgins and Kotalik? Hope not. Mayers? I hope so, and I hope he re-signs Nystrom pronto too, pretty wicked PK if so.
Two players could make the difference, if he can do something with Higgins and Kotalik and maybe finally Backlund matures into the top prospect we've been hoping for. This season 2 players that could have made the difference were Bouwmeester and Moss. If they have seasons like '08-'09 we have another +20ish goal differential and given all of those 1 goal games this year, it could have been a huge difference maker. Now they certainly weren't the only undeerachievers in this years lineup, and I do almost feel like I've come full circle in defense of Darryl, but I think truly as punishment, he should be forced to fix the mix in this mess. The past couple seasons first with Jokinen and now Stajan centering with Iginla just seems to be some sort of nasty wash. It sure would be nice to see Backlund pick up that slack though and emerge as that guy that can actually play with Iginla. Maybe I'm wrong but those 2 difference making players need to be able to find consistent chemistry with Iginla. It would be nice if nothing else to see him pot another 40+ for a couple years.
Is that last paragraph the Sutter paradigm? Have I got myself fooled into the same thing we've seen year after year since he took the reins? I watch every game and think to myself almost every single time; "If only Jarome would show us a power move out of the corner and snap a wrister past xyz" and "Damn we just need a true topline center for Jarome and we'd be cookin'". Yeah I'm not believing in Sutter we trust, the old-timer reclamations have never worked, but yet I still believe this team, as good as they are offensively are only a couple tweaks away from a return next year to the playoffs.
Wait, I am caught in that damnable mixmaster...
April 09 2010, 12:29AM
This line at the end of my comment:
"but yet I still believe this team, as good as they are offensively are only a couple tweaks away from a return next year to the playoffs"
Is supposed to read 'As good as they are defensively'
Not offensively, it even offensive of me to describe them as good offensively isn't it...
April 09 2010, 12:54AM
Like I said at MaG, this team could have had a chance if injuries didn't hit 3 of our most useful players. Maybe Sutter himself realized that Jarome is likely done as an upper tier scorer, and understood that our best chance to outscore the opposition is by decisively winning 3rd and 4th line matchups. We had a hell of a deep team before injuries struck:
Bourque-Stajan-Iginla Higgins-Langkow-Dawes Kotalik-Backlund-Hagman Moss-Conroy/Nystrom/Mayers-Glencross
April 09 2010, 02:08AM
I couldn't agree with "B" more, the team has one bad stretch of games (3 out of 18 points) that cost them a playoff spot and everyone is calling for Darryl's head. Yes the offense dried up this year, but how was Darryl supposed to know that Langkow was going to stop producing? How was Darryl supposed to know Moss would stop producing? How was Darryl supposed to know Jokinen would have a terrible year (In Cgy and NY)? The list goes on and on. I honestly believe that the Phaneuf trade had to happen, there's no reason Hagman can't bounce back and score 25, Stajan should put up 65+ pts and White produces at both ends of the ice. Last years first round playoff exit in my opinion was attributed to injuries. If Calgary had a healthy team I think they could have beaten Chicago. We were missing a number of guys, the biggest being Regeher. Could have Chicago beaten us if they were missing Keith/Seabrook? Not if you ask me. The biggest thing we are missing IMO is a young, skilled enthusiastic player, and that is the only place I can fault Darryl, he does trade away to many draft picks, but other than that I think he does a very good job. I ask you this, Where would this organization be without Darryl and the Contributions of the Sutter family?
April 09 2010, 03:59AM
The Flames miss the playoffs one year and this journalist is asking for Darrly to be fired. Is he kidding??? I thought George Johnson was a sensationalist hack, this journalist is even worse. The Flames were more or less the laughing stock of the league from 1996-2003 before he arrived. He aquired Kiprusoff, Bouwmeester, and Bourque for vitually nothing. The Flames were one of the top defensive teams in the league this year. So 3 guys (Kotalik, Hagman, Higgins,) this year didn't produce. If they would have lived up to their 20+ goal potential/track record the Flames would have made the playoffs. Lets not forget that Jokinen didn't produce either and he was a 30+ goal scorer. Oh ya, let's not forget that Phaneuf hasn't scored ONCE with the Leafs. Don't run this guy out of town. You'll be sorry you did. What is the alternative?
No one is saying that Sutter didn't make some good moves. Kent is saying that his bad moves unbalance the equation in the direction of "he's a poor GM." Bourque, Dawes, Backlund, Kipprusoff, Glencross. All good. Bouwmeester was overpaid (I thought that before he had this fat dump of a year offensively) on his contract. The Phaneuf trade, not bad as long as White gets resigned. Lombardi+1st rounder into 5+ million dollars worth of guys who can't score, Staios, Boyd for a 4th rounder, Bertuzzi, Phaneuf's stupidly large contract, Tanguay/Huselius/Nolan, McElhinney, and his stress on old-style "defensive hockey", all bad.
Sutter constantly got rid of guys who were very useful to the team (Nolan, etc), signed guys he had no business signing, overpaid on almost every contract he's signed to date, and has focused this team's identity on being a grinding dump-and-chase team of poor offensive calibre. I've been complaining about Sutter for 2-3 years now, and I'm sure Kent has been doing the same. This has nothing to do with missing the playoffs and everything to do with the choices Sutter has made.
Normally I would gloat, being an Oilers fan but I feel for you guys these days. GM Sutter is turning into Kevin Lowes twin.
At least we will get one of the top two picks though!
This is a good atricle and a good read.
My own opinion is that the Flames are a class operation from top to bottom. I think that the ownership group is one of the best in the NHL. Darryl Sutter is still among the best of the GM's in the NHL. I don't believe for a minute that he is living in the past as far as his methods of operation. He has nothing but the best interest of providing a winning team for the organization and fans. Everything he has done is for the good of the team. As with any job, sometimes things work and sometimes they don't, that happens to anybody in any situation, but at least he is doing something. In all, Darryl should definitely stay.
As far as the coaching staff go, they are all highly skilled and competent in the modern day workings of running a team, and what needs to be done to win. They should also stay, it's the players who go on the ice and they are the ones who have to sort out their problems of implementing the game plans and showing some desire.
For the team itself, considering the number of changes this year, especially later in the season, I believe that the team as it sits today, has a lot of dedicated hard working players. The players that have been added, have definitely not hurt the team since they came on board, and given a new full season to work as a team, it will definitely make the team a contender for next season's playoffs.
There may be a need to fine tune the team a bit, but if they stay together for the most part,for next season, with a minimum of change, they will all start 2010-2011 on the same page, at the same time. To build a team you need that consistencey, and an opoortunity to give more time to work as a team.
The power play definitely needs work, and I beleive that if the players spent some practice time shooting pucks on the net, that definitley would not hurt. We may not have a fifty goal scorer at this time, but we do have a lot of players on the roster that can score 10 to 20 goals each a season, and that still makes for a winning team.
As far as Jerome and Craig go, even thought they have had some rough times this year, they have heart and the experience to help the younger players meet their potential. I hope they can finish their careers with the Flames. It would be a shame to loose them. Hopefully everything can fit into the salary cap.
The team has made too many changes over the years, and sometimes the staus quo needs to remain. Give what is in place a chance to work. Everything we need is already here.
Great article Kent!
To those suggesting that Hagman and Stajan could bounce back and score 25/30 next year all I can say is keep dreaming. They were putting up those numbers in the East playing a lot of weak teams.
I think Darryl needs to go - he's had a long time at the reigns and it hasn't worked. I think his demise was last years trade deadline - trading away a 1st round pick and Lombo (the guys a 1st line center now), then it continues to the decision of not resigning Cammaleri (if we don't sign Jokinen we have Iggy-Lombo-Cammaleri as a top line) then with the Phaneuf & Jokinen trades - that is Daz in desperation mode, trying to make something - anything work. IMO he pulled the trigger too quickly on those trades (I'm sure he could have worked a deal with Florida for Dion) and getting rid of Jokinen just adds cap! We would have been free at the end of the year to go out and grab a good FA. It's just a snowball effect of quick-decision trades that have taken us nowhere.
It has been depressing watching the Flames most of this year - I was at the games in Toronto and Detroit this year and was so happy to see them pull off two great wins, Sutter needs to go, we need to cut our losses, hire someone who's gonna make smart decisions - what's Stevey Y up to other than sitting in an office in Detroit?
So much speculation to be had on all of this, I am optimistic that Daz will be booted, we bring in someone who can salvage the team, maybe wheel and deal for a draft pick/some cap space - and here's hoping Kip stays just as solid as this year and we start getting Avalanche like luck.
Great post, Kent. my overlong response to all the discussion:
I agree that Daz has made some great moves but has also made some of the wrong ones setting the team where it is for the next couple of years. I'm not angry, just disappointed, in where they are.
The three best things he did were acquisitions: 1) trading for Kipper - obvious 2) acquring for Bourque - long term core of the 2nd line 3) drafting Phaneuf - high talent, great potential, tradable asset
The worst were philosophies: 1) believing the needed a 80's taskmaster to drive the team forward not a 00's strategist: hiring Keenan - lost two critical years for the core with no vision 2) being parochial - ignoring offesive talent (from wherever - like europe for instance) for western character - this speaks to scouting as a whole I think 3) believing in reclamation projects over youth development
The team has its own development system now, which it didn't have for too long, it can be a development path. That's a good thing.
It has few assets to develop, has cap issues and no short term draft picks. That's bad.
Daz should go, with a "thanks for your best efforts, we came close"
That said, tearing apart the team this summer is not feasible. You have some core assets that are tradable, but not many, that can keep the team competitive while you build a long term plan.
Iggy is NOT, I think, NOT done yet.
Ditch some of what's hurting your cap room - if you can: Sarich, Kotalik, Staios.
Build a short term plan that allows for a long-term strategy.
I like Duhatchek's thoughts on the G&M's hockey blog and podcast: - See if you can move someone like Regher (who I respect and support and would hate to lose) to strengthen the defense of an offesive team who might be 1 step away (Washington, LA?) and get a talented 1st liner back. Challenge Bouw to step up, rely on a diminished but still good d-core (Bouw, Whte, Gio, Pardy, whoever) in front of Kipper .
Give Iggy two years with some talent and if it doesn't work / is futile, offer to move him to contender for the last year of his deal for a couple of decent (but probably not 1st round) picks.
Timing lines up for when the Flames start getting their picks again, and 2012-13 are the hardcore rebuild years. Ramp up for 2014-15.
Kent, I'm not suggesting that you are calling for Sutter to be fired simply because the Flames didn't make the playoffs this year. You obviously use some good examples of negatives to support you case. In your defence, maybe even if the Flames made another first round exit you'd be saying the same thing. But look at the stats in the West this year. To be a legitimate contender you need to have approximately 260 goals for and 220 goals against. The Flames will end the season with about 200 in each category. They also have an elite road record. Oh yeah, and the Flames will be around 10 games over .500 this year. Why not look at the reality of the situation rather than just jump on the "Uh, I don't know, let's clean house?" bandwagon. Sutter has constructed an excellent defensive and hard working team that gives Flames fans a reason to cheer every year. Why not simply free up 8 million in cap space by shipping of two of our oldest players Langkow and Sarich? Before you ask for Darryl's head, what are some possible moves he could make in addition to the one I listed to make be a top 4 team in the West next year?
To those suggesting that Hagman and Stajan could bounce back and score 25/30 next year all I can say is keep dreaming. They were putting up those numbers in the East playing a lot of weak teams.
Hagman put up a career high 27 in Dallas IN THE WEST. His 3-year average is 24. He's basically a 25 goal scorer with the possibility of hitting 30 in a really good year. Obviously, to depend on 30 from him is not smart, but if he can't get you 25 goals, something is seriously wrong.
I dont see this team as hard working enough, I can think of one start to finish 60 min. effort all year. That was ONE game vs Vancouver.... a game I hold in high regard mostly because of how great Prust was... but DAZ got rid of him and Postagain for two heartless slugs.
I would caution claims of "great defensive team" with an objective look at the larceny that is a regular part of the game of Kipper.
Give him to any team in the league except maybe Buffalo and you will see a marked and significant improvement in their defensive play.
To those suggesting that Hagman and Stajan could bounce back and score 25/30 next year all I can say is keep dreaming. They were putting up those numbers in the East playing a lot of weak teams.
Hagman put up a career high 27 in Dallas IN THE WEST. His 3-year average is 24. He's basically a 25 goal scorer with the possibility of hitting 30 in a really good year. Obviously, to depend on 30 from him is not smart, but if he can't get you 25 goals, something is seriously wrong.
Exactly. Borque, Hagman, Kotalik, and Higgins all have a track record of multiple/consecutive 20 goal seasons. They ARE NOT 30 goal scorers. Having 4/20 goal scorers plus Jerome (30 goal scorer most seasons) is not a bad foundation for your top 6 wingers. Stajan is a 10-20 goal, 40-50 assist center, NOT a goal scorer. Backlund will put up Stajan like numbers during his career.
The foundation on forward is there. Just can't find that number 1 center. Jokinen was that guy in FLA, but has choked in both Calgary and NY. With Setiguci, Pavelski, and Nabokov all up for free agency in SJ, it would be nice for Darryl to get a shot at signing Marleau for 7-8 Mill. Maybe even Kovalchuck for 8-9 Mill.?
My apologies for all my replies. I just finished my semester and have lots of free time on my hands. Roughneck, being hard working isn't about flying around hitting everything Philadelphia style. It's about positioning and dedication to the system. And for "being a great defensive team", WE ARE. We are tied for 4th fewest shots against per game this year, basically reflecting our goals against position. Yeah, we have a great goalie, Kipper makes some good saves, it's going to happen a few times out of the 28 shots a game he faces.
"an easy retort would be that if Bouwmeester, Iginla, and Kipper got hurt, they'd be 29-30th place team ( Edmonton has 30th locked up )"
That's an easy to say for any team though. If your leading goal scorer and starting goalie go down any team would struggle. Especially when you consider the caliber of players Iggy and Kipper are. I fail to see your point.
April 09 2010, 05:23PM
Have you ever thought that it was Mr. King playing the role of GM as he pulled Sutters strings? There are a lot of deals that he did not want to do, like Dion to Toronto, that again was Mr. King. He has pulled the strings since Roland Cardinal was there in 04, when Brenda was questioning him about it in the post. Kent, do some digging like Brenda did, you would be surprised who you find is sleeping with the enemy.
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April 10 2010, 01:24AM
Why do so many people want to blow up the team? Everybody keeps calling the Flames core past their prime, but Kipper just put up one of his best seasons ever and Iginla still pots 32 with the lunch pail gang for linemates. We had a bad year, an uncharacteristic year. There was something going on deeper there than suddenly all of Calgary's core sucks. Why did so many players have subpar seasons? Iginla, Langkow, Bouwmeester, Regehr, even Conroy. There is a culture change taking place which typically take longer than one year in any organization. But I think Calgary still has many good assets, like Kipper still arguably being the best goalie in the league (top 3 for sure), a strong d-corpse -Regehr, Bouwmeester, White (hopefully they sign him), Gio, Saarich, and the forwards are still pretty solid. I think they are missing one big scorer (a la Cammaleri) to take that group to another level. I think that Iginla has played over a 1000 games and his style is starting to transition from power forward to more of a playmaker. Look at his stats from a season ago with Cammaleri in the line-up. His goal production dropped off only 3 goals (with no one else to key on) and if he had someone else capable of potting 30-40 he probably would have had another 20 assists putting around 80-90 points again. How many times did he set up Hagman and Stajan but they couldn't score? People keep saying that if Iginla is such a great player he should be able to do it himself... that's idiocy. How many cups did Gretz win after leaving Edmonton? 0, because even the greatest offensive player of all time needs calibre linemates, and a second line to score when he's not on the ice. Before Detroit won any cups, back in the 90's, Bowman told Yzerman that if he wanted to win he wasn't going to win anymore scoring titles. Yzerman changed his style, and had another player the calibre of Fedorov (plus a deep roster) to raise the cup. No one can do it with only one superstar anymore, no one is that good otherwise New Jersey would have stuck with Parise and not gone after Kovie.
I say that the Sutter's, and this core group get one more year because they've had more successful years than not and anyone in management knows that you don't throw the baby out with the bath water because of one bad year.
Oilers fans have been saying this for a couple years. As horrible as the Oil are we at least have something to look forward to in the future whereas Flames fans really don't have much. I agree that Sutter has made a mess of what should have been a great team. The best years are behind them, you need to get younger.
April 11 2010, 12:41PM
Let's get this out of the way: I'm not a Flames fan. However, I will try to be fair in my commentary.
Most of what Kent claims is reasonable, however I wouldn't fire GM Sutter ... yet. Having no draft picks and no up and commers in the pipeline your team has chosen its path. You have to play out the hand.
Unless you have a GM in the wings with a plan to dismantle the team ready to go in 10 weeks, you should let Sutter do what he can to see if he can milk anything else from the core of your team. The core isn't done. Kipper had a great year. Iggy is only 32 and Boumeester is still a young man.
Make this the final year for this team and restrict Sutter's ability to trade away the future. If the team falters in 2010/11 make sure you have a GM plan b in place by January and prepare yourself for a 5 year rebuild.
Starting your rebuild with the cupboards bare doesn't really get you much of a jump on the project. Use the 2011 trade deadline to start stocking draft picks, if the team busts. By draft time 2011 start the rebuild. Besides, the economy will be better by 2011 and there may be a better market in terms of salary cap by then.
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For all the "we have no first round draft picks" critics. From 2004-2008 the Flames selected 24/26/26/24/25 in the first round. Darryl is just playing percentages because his teams finished some well during the regular season. Only half of all first rounders play 500 NHL games and most of those are in the top half of the first round. Look what Burke traded for Kessel, same logic.


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In a further boost for the promotion-chasing Elgood's Fenland Stadium outfit, Appleby - who led Wisbech to their first trophy in 16 years in 2011 - said he wouldn't be applying for the vacant Boston United job.
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NEW YORK – A petition filed on behalf of Louise Neathway, who characterizes herself as a former mistress of New York Yankees general manager Brian Cashman, claims Cashman told her he intentionally misled federal investigators during the Roger Clemens investigation, knew of clubhouse steroid use by various Yankees players and was ambivalent to the use of performance-enhancement drugs as long as nothing came back to the Yankees organization.
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Skip to comments.Letter from a Texas Dodge dealer.
Posted on 05/22/2009 8:57:28 AM PDT by Mississippi Guy
First time to post so not sure if I put this in the right place, but I found this and thought that it was a good read.
May 16, 2009
Dear America,
Recently, Chrysler, LLC notified Rogers Dodge, Inc., in Alvin, Texas of their anticipated closing of our dealership. Chrysler has pled their story quite publicly for several months in support of their request of billions of taxpayer dollars. This is our story.
We occupy a 3-year old Dodge-designed building for which we paid cash when it was built. It was appraised at $3,700,000 in 2007. We qualified as a Five Star dealer for the 2009 calendar year. We have remained profitable through all of this downturn. We have in excess of $1,000,000 in working capital in our dealership. We are selling at or above market share. We pay $75,000 per year in local property taxes and collect millions of dollars annually in state sales taxes. We employ 38 Alvin, Texas residents who all pay property tax, sales tax and income tax.
The owner, Mr. Peter Mankins, my uncle, owns 6 other dealerships, has no liens on any of his properties or franchises, and has a net worth in excess of $30 million. He has maintained a car dealership in Texarkana, Texas since the late 1960s. He purchased that dealership from my grandfather, who purchased it from my great-grandfather, who rode shotgun next to his father when he was 9, as they were settling the Oklahoma Territory. My great-grandfather started in the automotive business in the early 1900s as a motorcycle repairman, which eventually segued into an International Harvester franchise, and, subsequently, a Pontiac franchise. I have a large family, almost all of which are connected with auto dealerships in one way or another. I state all of this so that there is no confusion by Chrysler or the bankruptcy court or the US government over whether we are a group of half-committed dealers - we are not short-term auto dealers/we are committed over several generations. Chrysler and its dealers have been portrayed in the media as regressive small-town morons. Speaking solely for the dealers, I assure you this is not the case.
In the past year, we have embarked on several creative initiatives in order to remain profitable and out of bankruptcy court. We have become a very competitive used vehicle internet dealer by patterning ourselves after the most successful used vehicle internet dealers in the country. Selling more used vehicles than new vehicles is one of the stated criteria upon which Chrysler based their decision to close us. Would Chrysler have preferred their dealers join them in bankruptcy court? It was never our desire to allow ourselves to be a burden on the American taxpayers; nor do we plan this in the future. Selling more used vehicles has enabled us to not only avoid layoffs, but to actually grow our employee population from 25 to 38 during the period of May 2008 to May 2009, a 52 percent increase. Further, in the first four months of 2009, our new vehicle sales have increased by approximately 50% by employing the same innovative practices within our new vehicle department. Though Dodge district sales are down by about 50%, our new vehicle sales actually increased comparing April 2008 and April 2009. In our parts department, we have created one of very few eBay parts stores selling new factory parts. We have listed in excess of 4,000 Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep factory parts and are by far the largest internet seller of OEM DCJ parts in the world. This has increased our monthly parts sales by approximately 35% in a short 5 month period. In our service department, we have recently added an additional service advisor, a service manager, and three additional master technicians, have endeavored to maintain the least expensive oil change in town and, effective this month, extended our service hours to 14 hours per weekday and 10 hours on Saturdays. We were on track to move to 24-hour/7-day a week service hours by the end of 2009. Just this month, we hired a graduating University of Houston student as a photographer and videographer. We began the process of taking studio-quality photographs of our inventory, something which no other auto retailer in the country is doing. Evidence of our early progress with this can be found in a slideshow on our homepage at http://www.rogersdodge.com/ .
When Chrysler needed dealers to purchase inventory so that the factories could keep operating and their employees could retain their paychecks, we complied and ordered 10 months of inventory. Our interest on inventory swelled from $15,000 monthly to beyond $50,000 monthly. Effectively, we took pay cuts in order to support Chrysler's cause. When Mr. Landry uttered his veiled threat that Chrysler would "remember those who supported us and those who didn't," we felt that we had done our part to support Chrysler and its workers. Now, we realize that we were just supporting our own demise. Last week, we were given three weeks to dispose of five months of inventory. In doing so, we anticipate losing in excess of $1 million - we may actually have to inject capital into our business in order to go out of business. Our $2 million plus in equity in our franchise is now completely worthless. Further, we now face the very real possibility that our new building will sit empty for months or years until someone is willing to purchase it.
Despite all of this, Chrysler is taking our franchise so that it can be given to our neighbor across the street, Ron Carter Autoland. Ron Carter Autoland has the local Ford, Chevrolet, Chrysler, Jeep, Pontiac, Buick and GMC franchises. They occupy a 40 to 50 year old building that does not comply with any manufacturer's design standards. They have recently moved their Ford, Chrysler and Jeep franchises into the same building, a violation of their franchise agreements with both Ford and Chrysler. They have recently cut their service hours, consolidated their used vehicle operations and laid off many employees. The manager, and a major shareholder, of Ron Carter Autoland is Mr. Cary Wilson, President-elect of the Houston Auto Dealers Association - apparently Mr. Wilson's political affiliation is very important to Chrysler, the bankruptcy court and the US government.
How exactly does transferring our franchise to our neighbor serve Chrysler's stated purpose of thinning out dealer numbers? The franchise will still exist - it will just have a new owner.
Though I am a Washington, DC-educated attorney and former employee of the US Department of Labor and the US Senate and an active advocate of the American way of life, it is difficult for me to view this abrogation of our franchise rights as anything more than a manipulation of US bankruptcy court and law so that Chrysler LLC can transfer wealth between dealers they like and those they dislike, those that have agreed to under-table favors and those that haven't, and to settle old vendettas. This is not the purpose of US bankruptcy protection and, surely, it isn't why the US Treasury has given billions to Chrysler to keep them in business.
This is our story; however, it is, unfortunately, not unique. Allowing this manipulation of US bankruptcy law will set a precedent that effectively invalidates all state franchise laws. Though technically a question of law, many of these closings are politically motivated. Thus, anyone with any interest in retaining the US economic system in its current form must contact their political representatives immediately. Small businesses will have no legal protections if these closings are allowed to occur. Rome is burning, America - please wake up.
Nicholas Parks, President
Rogers Dodge, Inc.
Alvin, Texas
I guess you'll just have to sue the new owner, Alias...aka. President Barak O.
Good points, well written, but
"apparently Mr. Wilson's political affiliation is very important to Chrysler, the bankruptcy court and the US government."
was all he needed to ask.
This certainly has a familiar stench to it......and for all of those garnering assets at the expense of your fallen teammates, the criminals you are dealing with will eventually come for you too......
Did he benefit from the Chrysler bailout that took place in 1979?
Not relevant...Chrysler paid back every penny of that bailout.
Just a side point. The state franchise agreements, which the dealers zealously support ( and without bankruptcy Chrsyler could do nothing..terminating a dealer used to be the equivalent of trying to fire a bad teacher ) sort of laid the groundwork for this years ago. When Chrysler killed Plymouth, it made no sense for Chrysler in Alvin to be sold by a multi-dealer line, when it should have been paired with the Dodge dealer. But no way the guy would give it up, without a BIG pay off, I suspect..
This guy needs to fi.e an adversarial action in BK court. He could stretch this thing out for years with not a lot of effort. If Chrysler is doing this, it is BK fraud and an honest BK judge will see right through it and rule for him if the judge is honest.
But I do look forward to hearing all those RATs from Congress telling us last July how sound was Freddie and Fannie. (or was that the year before? they killed proper regulation so many times, it's hard to keep track.)
Confidential to dealers losing franchises: open a pitchfork store, I sense a growing demand.
File an objection with the bankruptcy court asap. Play every card. Get women admin workers to picket other dealer. Dem hq, everywhere else. Get black employees to call naacp then picket. Call tv stations etc. Underlying message: unfair unamerican' etc.
Finally, if dodge makes money selling cars, why close places that sell their cars? Huh:
Sad story for sure but, Rogers Dodge forgot to mention something important.
For about 10 years now Chrysler has been fairly active in streamlining their dealership operations by way of "pro-pack", i.e. doing Chrysler-Jeep-Dodge all in one dealership. Through this process, no doubt many single brand dealers got absorbed, while the diehards hung on. Diehard yes, but they still die, in the end. Most unfortunately, but not unseen.
One can barely argue against efficiency these days.
I'm not diving in to this one again.
I'm not, I'm not, I'm not.
You can't make me!
And that money helped turn Chrysler around at a time when it was darn near dead. The money was paid back with interest in less time than origianlly scheduled. That's more than you can say for the money we lent Mexico for it's bailout
It is very relevant.
The government has absolutely no business or right to subsidize private industry with tax money.
When they do, as with every other government intervention, the government gets to decide the terms. Assuming he benefited in 1979, it's hypocritical to complain now because the terms don't suit him.
They were profitable on used cars.
In other words, they were not making money for Chrysler.....which is the point of having a Chrysler franchise!
Sorry, but if they are so good at selling used cars, let them continue to do it. They don't need Chrysler for it and then they can stop their whining.
Is it ok to give tax money and loans backed up by tax money when the outcome is good?
How about this: It's never ok to use tax money to bail out private industry, regardless of the outcome. It runs counter to the free market system which Conservatives support.
Tax money isn't supposed to be used to prop up failing businesses. I'm really shocked that you think it is.
I wonder who this guy donated to politically. Even more important, check Ron Carter's donations.
It puts the lotion on the search button...
I don't think America really cares which franchises are propped up with taxpayers dollars.
First, it's hard to be sympathetic to any car dealership. Raise your hand if you haven't been screwed over or at least misled by one.
Second, this diatribe misses the point: The market, not Zero, decided Chrysler was not worthy of continuing. His franchise would have been killed by the market in any event, just like it will once his neighbor gets it. Someone indeed supportive of "the American Way", a/k/a the free market economy, would understand that, and move on to more productive things than crying about not recieving their piece of the bail-out pie, which is a greater miscarriage of justice against ALL Americans.
To the author: Sorry your ox got gored, but we've been trampled, and don't really care that you're losing some generational wealth.
Alvin, Texas, Texas 14th, representative......Ron Paul
Can't you read?
"in the first four months of 2009, our new vehicle sales have increased by approximately 50% by employing the same innovative practices within our new vehicle department. Though Dodge district sales are down by about 50%, our new vehicle sales actually increased comparing April 2008 and April 2009."
Wow. 4 months of data. I would not hire/fire anyone based on 4 months of data.
I wonder what their sales have been over the past several years?
Don't get caught up in numbers. Many of these dealers are simply fast talkers and good number manipulators, but did not bring home the bacon when it counted.
Did you pay cash for the home you own?
Sounds like Ron Carter had both Chrysler and Jeep lines in their store and the one losing across the street only had Dodge. Looks to me like Chrysler is consolidating much of their dealerships into multiple lines such as Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep all in the same store. GM is doing a lot of that also or so it seems to me.
now all the bankrupt brands will be under one roof....GREAT!!!! in truth this is sh!t....the guy losing out is a successful dealer....invested his OWN money in his dealership and guess what....he gets F@#$@#!..... America will never be the same....lock and load.....it is coming......
You work for a wage or invest your money and take your chances. Nothing is a guarantee only the opportunity to persue your choice is there. Get used to it as auto malls are coming much like Walmart took over merchandising in the retail sector.
See. To a lot of you here that's the whole thing isn't it? Screw the fact that the Obama administration is tossing bankruptcy laws out the window and is imposing their brand of fascism on our great nation. I suppose that just leaves you feeling all tingly, doesn't it?
All you care about is that GENERATIONAL WEALTH. God forbid anybody do well on this earth and pass it down to their kids. That's just not right in your small world, is it?
Good luck with your class warfare, Bubba. It'll serve your new masters well.
I do not understand how this can happen WITHOUT compensation.
another one?....same thing happened to a dealership owner here in Melbourne, Florida.
He needs to commit his life to demolishing liberalism from every nook and cranny of society.
No. We have a modest home, a a conventional mortgage, and a low interest rate.
Why do you ask?
If you can't figure it out, then I won't bother to elucidate. Some things are in fact self-evident
It's clearly safe to assume you are incapable of forming a cohesive argument in favor of giving the hard-earned tax dollars of American citizens to private companies which have shown that they cannot manage their own affairs and their own money, and would like a shot with public tax dollars.
There is absolutely no similarity between private individuals (potential homeowners) who contract with private entities (banks, credit unions) assuming risk based on established credit history doing business for the benefit of both parties, growing wealth on both sides.
A private entity (Chrysler) begging for government tax money to bail out a wrecked company with a history of poor decisions and faulty products which no one is buying. Free market forces are not at work there - only market manipulations.
Further, there is absolutely nothing conservative about taking tax dollars from earners and giving (or "lending") them to private concerns.
Conservatism = Free Market Economics = Freedom and Prosperity.
Liberalism = Manipulated Market Economics in a futile attempt to make everything "fair" and "equal" = slaving away, only to have the proceeds of that labor taken and given to those who won't/can't/don't want to/are too stupid or incompetent to work.
I agree that the government should not be involved in private business...I meant that the 1st Chrysler bailout did not include the government being part owner nor the taking of the bond holder's equity.
Iaccoca and team paid it all back.....
The free market was killing an obsolete business, Zero didn't bail him out. Deal with it, Komrade.
Yeah, right. So how many pictures of Mussolini and Chavez hang on your bedroom walls?
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Martin Havlat scares me
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The Blackhawks have a lot of assests the Flames will have to be cognizant of: Khabibulin, Kane, Campbell, Toews, Versteeg, Sharp and the monstrous Dustin Byfuglien.
But the scariest of them all is Martin Havlat.
Prior to this season, Havlat was an injury prone dangler who was dangerous when he was healthy or on the power play. He was always a bit of an after thought and his contract looked like a boat anchor for awhile.
No longer.
This season, the former Senator joined the ranks of the elite (as seems to happen to players that are cast aside by that organization). Havlat lead the Blackhawks in scoring with 29 goals and 77 points. He was also +29.
Very good, if not spectacular counting stats, right? What makes these results "elite" is the fact that he spent almost the entire year with Andrew Ladd and Dave Bolland shutting down other teams top lines. Havlat played away from the club's most potent offensive young stars, with relatively lackluster linemates against the best the opposition had to offer - and was a leader in terms of ES scoring, plus/minus and corsi (+15.8/60) anyways. In addition, while his on-ice percentages are good (.912, 10.6, PDO 101.8), they aren't astronomical, so we can't dismiss his season as a result of good fortune.
No, Havlat's the real deal. He's fast, agile, an excellent puck handler and, apparently, a legitimate Selke trophy nominee. Expect Iginla to see a lot of Havlat during this series, especially since the Blackhawks have home ice advantage. Given Iginla's so-so season, I'm not so sure it's a match-up he can win...
Hes also a gutless cheap shot artist tailor made for getting Dion off his game(such that it is). He wont fight but has a major capacity for pissing the opposition off, hes kept that a bit more under wraps this year but I fully expect that junk to be front and centre in this series. Its the most demoralizing thing in sports when the guy you want to kill scores on you. Or in euro fashion the guy who lays on the ice like hes dead, draws the penalty, takes a wee rest of 30 seconds on the bench.. then comes out and dangles through your box and roofs it on you. Lets just get one of the call ups to bobby clark him and save the hostilities. :-))


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