Letting Theo carry-on while visibly hurting (of course he wants to continue Claude)...assigning Plekanecs (one of the worst defensive forwards on the team) to kill off a late game penalty...rewarding Rivets brutal effort with still MORE ice-time in the dying minutes of the game...a two goal lead and the Habs shut-down the offense (did they even register 10 shots on goal in the final 2 periods???)...placing Ribs halfway along the offensive zone sideboards on the PP ALL NIGHT (how many giveaways??? I lost count!).
I tell ya, Craig MacT just absolutely toyed with Julien all night in terms of line combos!!!
A monkey could have seen the Moreau goal coming ALL NIGHT...why couldn't CJ???
Gainey needs to call home to Peterborough and look into Dick Todd (a Cup winner with the Rangers)...maybe (if he was REALLY nice to him) Alain Vignault MIGHT come back...because CJ is wayyyyyyyyyy out over his head!!!
...Jacques Lemaire is next...somebody get Saku an IV line and some Gatorade!!!
(a lack of personnel had nothing to do with a beer league approach)
Just frigging amazing And-O. Your are just about as consistent from game to game in your opinions as the officiating is in this league. I think Gainey need look no further than this board for a new head coach. There are at least 20 here.
-- Edited by barry33 at 08:55, 2005-12-16
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Hey Barry33...what point of And-o's can you possibly disagree with???
Geesh where would I start?!???
McTavish "toyed" with Julien on line combos all night because he had teh luxry of lats change
Tome fo rBob to get "his guy" behind the bench. Perhaps. At the same time he can go get some talent to go with it
A monkey could have seen the Moreu goal coming all night? What the hell are you talking about??
leaving Theo in. I woudl have made the same decision if both the trainer and Theo tell me he is ok. Your option is to stick a guy in a one goal game in the 3rd who has not played a minute in the NHL in 2 years. How would that be a good decision? Theo had a stinger. A shot off the knee. It hurts alot when you get them (I know) but they go away when you move around.
To say that Gainey was "stuck with Julien because he had some success" is to be blunt. A joke. I do not even want to justify that statement with a comment because I have no idea where I would start.
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Children, let's not fight. Let's constructively tear the team apart and rebuild it. What do you wach think that CJ must do? There are some obvious things. State what he's got to do and/or why he isn't doing them. Forget for a few minutes that you hate him (and-o) and that you love him (b33).
I don't think the team needs to be torn apart. Does everyone honestly think we were only going to have 8 losses this season? Teams like Detroit, and Ottawa, or any of the big teams like that will still be getting 20+ losses in the season, we have a real good team, with 2-3 players that might need to go. But I think that it's sad how after every loss, people start posting up "so-and-so" needs to go. Where was everyone's negativity when we won against LA?