azzurri63
Active member
Think I have pretty well given up on this team this year. Some of the bulls**t decisions that have been made by Nonis or Carlyle are just mind boggling. As much as I liked Nonis when Burke brought him in I'm starting to second guess some of his moves. I said it when they gave him the extension. WHY? Did absolutely nothing to deserve it. We almost beat the Bruins but hey had one of the worst 3 period collapses in a game 7 but here's an extension Dave. Upper management should be ashamed of themselves. They bring in Tim Leiweke. Who? Exactly this guy was brought in solely to make more money for MLSE. What hockey background does this guy have? Get some people in here that have some hockey knowledge and surround them with good personnel. The move with Holland and how they have handled him is absurd. If it's due to losing the second round pick Nonis is an idiot. Pick doesn't mean s**t and don't know why everyone is so worried about it. Said this many times picks are a crapshoot unless you're picking high in the first round which still doesn't assure you getting a guaranteed player. Personally think we wasted our first rounder last year with Gauthier. The team should be concentrating on putting the best lineup on the ice and if that means Holland playing then so be it. If the team gets it's head out of it's a** and makes the playoffs the pick will be in the 50th range big deal. Carlyle's stubbornness , Nonis' failure to improve the weaknesses of this team going into this season along with his off season moves which left the team with basically no wiggle room as far as the cap, and first and foremost the inability to see where we struggled last year and try to improve on that. That being the team's poor defensive play as a whole and inability to get the puck out of our end. That has not changed at all this year and I personally think has gotten worse. Whether it's Carlyle, the system or the players something needed to be done and to this day nothing has changed. They have been moving along well into the season and have dug themselves into a deeper hole. With some of the poor starts by other teams they could have placed themselves nicely in the standings but have not. My feeling is we are going to miss the playoffs. Sad thing is I think Burke got us in the right direction and with a couple smart additions the team could have looked real good. The move today doesn't surprise me. The way we have handled players such as Kadri, Gardiner even Rielly to a lesser extent and today Holland doesn't surprise me. Makes me think back to the Ballard days and it sucks.
