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KitFisto:
I'd bet the farm it ain't happening.
DC_1908:
--- Quote from: Mickstix on Thursday January 24, 2019, 10:00:57 AM Eastern ---Caps are Ted's cash cow.. He won't let the milk spoil, trust me. (or rather GMBM won't) 3 more losses in a row and we'll start hearing the whispers of who they're hiring next..
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Ovi is Ted and Monumentals cash cow. The only way Reidon goes before the season is over will be if Ovie says so and/or Ovie goes on a dry spell.
Them firing Reidon would make Monumental look (expose) them as a god damn joke:
Win a Cup when everyone wrote you off. then don’t pay the coach that won it, so you can give the job to “your guy” that you’ve been grooming, and fire him midway through the season as he sucks?
No way will Monumental take that PR hit and make themselves look that bad with Ovie in the way to 700
waynerivers:
--- Quote from: DC_1908 on Thursday January 24, 2019, 08:45:33 AM Eastern ---ok let’s tap the breaks here . . . Reidon isn’t getting fired yet.
Right now he’s doing what Monumental expects him to do: making sure Ovie leads the league in goals and closes in on 800. Then ride “have a chance in the playoffs”, because they won once, . . .once, each year.
Do you really think Ted cares about a loss as long Ovie gets a hat trick?
Monumentals goal is to open the new arena with a statue of Ovie saying 800 goal-scorer out front, not winning games in January or even Cups.
This is why they let Trotz walk and hired Reidon
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wrong post--see below
waynerivers:
--- Quote from: zerofox on Wednesday January 23, 2019, 11:00:28 PM Eastern ---
Agreed. Our forward corps is a rotating door of "who the fuck sits this game out" because we have too many forwards, while our defense is basically an episode of To Catch a Predator - a few old guys and a bunch of fucking kids.
Ovi, Backy, Kuzy (when he's not retarded), Wilson, Vrana, and Oshie to me are set as the top 6. Eller and Connolly help form the core of the 3rd line. I trust guys like Stephenson, Boyd, Jaskin, Dowd enough to have them fill in the rest of the forward group. Those are our 12 guys and we haven't even gotten to DSP yet, luckily. But at least we have people who weren't born yesterday.
Meanwhile, Carlson, Niskanen, Orlov, and Kempny (which, say what you will about their play, they're our best defenders). Then after that it goes downhill rapidly. You have Orpik, spokesman of the AARP, and fucking children like Seigenthaler, Bowey. One of our big guys on D goes down and you're getting pretty close to legitimately finding a homeless guy off the streets to play 6D
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I agree generally but not about who are the big liabilities on defense in our own end. Right now, I'd take Siegenthaler over Carlson, Orlov, Niskanen and Bowey. All four of them have looked horrible. I don't care what Carlson's plus/minus is. I constantly see him batting it mindlessly around the boards to the opposition, sliding on his face into the corner attempting to block passes and getting caught up ice. Defensively, he reeks. He's becoming Mike Green II. Orlov and Niskanen get pushed around and have been making dumb plays with the puck. Bowey just has no idea what he's doing.
The only guys half dependable are Kempny and Siegenthaler, IMO. I say bring Lewington back up and play him. Add Orpik, Carlson and either Orlov/Niskanen as the 6th guy. Not great but the least damaging. They really desperately need to add a quality veteran d-man who's 30 or under. Two would be even better. Trading for a forward is completely useless. Oh, and I agree on Rierden. Two words: Joel Quenneville.
alta:
I'm not ready to give up on Rierden. Gotta see if he can turn these guys around first. But more than that, if Rierdon gets canned then Ted/Monumental has to admit they screwed the pooch .....
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