Scott

Ed Kranepool!!

Good news.

Another possible future Wolfpack captain. Can't have enough depth?? The bottom of the barrel type, devils castoff trash. He was cheap I suppose, so there's an upside.

All that and snoozing crowds to top all of that non-game night stuff off. Truly the NHL hockey mecca. My real point is there are a lot of other true hockey cities to play in that aren't featuring the bright lights.

Happy for him, hopefully he can hold onto his marbles for the length of the contract then head off into retirement.

Anybody ever hear of Trey Fix-Wolansky? Bueller?

Damn you.

Sure, just an older guy who's seen a lot and have seen blind faith put into guys who don't deserve it just cause they're wearing our sweater. There's a lot of deadening wood and unproven pieces in this puzzle. Plenty of wishful thinking too, not a bad thing. At this point in life I believe what I see not what I hope for. What's the end result this season for a guy who's glass is half full? Making the playoffs and winning a round. I'm at could miss the playoffs or lose first round. I don't think the ceiling for a lot of these guys is very high.

The place is also a morgue on many nights stuffed with corporate suits who don't even know what they're watching. Countless nights my daughter would say wth is going on this place is dead over the last 5-7 years where we would go to 8-10 premium games. I get visiting players coming in enjoying the city, the food, atmosphere whatever, the bright lights. I think the whole mecca thing is completely overblown. Will there always be guys who want to come here, yes. Will they always get the pick of the litter, no I don't believe that's true. Sure there are worst places to play, on the flip side there are some places equally if not more enticing.

Agree but regardless of Drury being a douche, not everybody likes the city life. Fuck I dreaded every day of working there for most of my career as did many of my peers. It's just not for everybody. Did Drury cause irreparable damage maybe not, did he make it more attractive, I don't think so. A reasonable human being isn't that tough of an ask.

Just my two cents Berard and especially Othmann haven't showed enough to warrant a starting slot in the NHL imo. Parssinen isn't any good. Laf I believe is a steaming turd and a disappointment. I don't think his 3rd or 4th coach will make much of a difference, he is what he is not what we read before he got drafted. Zib well, hopefully he can regain his former self for an entire season but for now he's a question mark. Don't know enough about Raddysh to comment either way 4th line, 2 wings have I believe 120 games combined. Until Rempe proves over a long period of time he understand how the game works and he has to change (irregardless of how tall he is etc) his ways can be a liability. Not sure anybody can honestly say what Edstrom is over the course of a season something he's never done before. Carrick a grinder, ok. Now to piss everybody off, the ask for Cuylle to jump to the first line and be productive his a huge ask. I'm not sure he's a first line player or even that close to one at this point in his career. Will he be playing with better players, sure. Will he be going up against better player equally as sure. Unless Perrault lights up the AHL he shouldn't get a whiff the first several + months. We've seen that with how many "future" stars to be detrimental? Countless? It's this for me all the way, (but I do question Cuylle and how it will work out but understand why he's there. It's a throw your pile of players on the ice every night and hope for the best. While I will watch and enjoy the wins as always, this team isn't very good imo. That's without picking apart some on the defense side of the puck. This team is an also ran in its current form imo. Drury's teams have always only carried 1 extra F and 1 extra D so some of these guys won't even start on the NHL roster. It's just blah almost all the way around.

Go figure, the guy is so good he couldn't even lock down a one way deal.

Smells like it.

Purely viveting shit. Dowling is a spry going to be 35 year old with ~ 170 NHL games. We're stack our depth turd quota. Go Hartford!