Go unshackled; we won’t judge.Ohhh didn't you say you don't have to go into work tmw? Makes sense now.Hit us with an Arab joke. We all know the deal with you with.
I’m sure you’ll make up for it.
and I'm sure you'll need more therapy after I do.
Sullivan seems like a distant weirdo. I love these players and want great things for everyone employed by this team, but when it is ultimately sully's time to go, I'll be ok. Even if he's railroaded by his fickle players.The sad thing is that sheary looks good this year. Guentzel looks good. Rust looks good. Kessel played the best 30 games of his life. Dumo has improved. Maatta has never looked better. Even Sprong looks like he belongs. Lots of guys stepped up this year. And our 3 big guns are just awful. Which is apparently enough to derail an entire team.
It happens. I'm not freaking out. But what a leadership failure from guys who I thought were over that.
I hate to be cynical, but don’t underestimate the ability of this group to abandon a coach.
Pursuant to our little conversation last week about my failure to understand the lack-of-confidence thing after winning 2 consecutive Cups, I guess I don't understand this, either. I can't fathom that Sid, Geno,and Tanger don't care. But they couldn't have forgotten how to hockey. So, are they pressing? Are they just fried? Is this some misguided attempt at conserving energy to flip the switch after the bye week?The sad thing is that sheary looks good this year. Guentzel looks good. Rust looks good. Kessel played the best 30 games of his life. Dumo has improved. Maatta has never looked better. Even Sprong looks like he belongs. Lots of guys stepped up this year. And our 3 big guns are just awful. Which is apparently enough to derail an entire team.
It happens. I'm not freaking out. But what a leadership failure from guys who I thought were over that.
It looks like either Sullivan has no answers, or the core has tuned him out. Sid has always been a fierce competitor so what we've seen of him this season seems really weird to me.The sad thing is that sheary looks good this year. Guentzel looks good. Rust looks good. Kessel played the best 30 games of his life. Dumo has improved. Maatta has never looked better. Even Sprong looks like he belongs. Lots of guys stepped up this year. And our 3 big guns are just awful. Which is apparently enough to derail an entire team.
It happens. I'm not freaking out. But what a leadership failure from guys who I thought were over that.
I hate to be cynical, but don’t underestimate the ability of this group to abandon a coach.
Hell, any loss at all didn't happen too often.Pens shut out at home doesn't happen too often ... and yet it happened for the second time in three games.
They lost quality leadership. That seems like a poor excuse for the big 3, but maybe that’s what they are (or are not).It looks like either Sullivan has no answers, or the core has tuned him out. Sid has always been a fierce competitor so what we've seen of him this season seems really weird to me.The sad thing is that sheary looks good this year. Guentzel looks good. Rust looks good. Kessel played the best 30 games of his life. Dumo has improved. Maatta has never looked better. Even Sprong looks like he belongs. Lots of guys stepped up this year. And our 3 big guns are just awful. Which is apparently enough to derail an entire team.
It happens. I'm not freaking out. But what a leadership failure from guys who I thought were over that.
I hate to be cynical, but don’t underestimate the ability of this group to abandon a coach.
I think Sullivan has enough goodwill built up to last another season or two even if we miss playoffs.Yeah I've thought about the absurdity of firing Sullivan right now given that he hasn't lost a playoff series yet. Maybe the team just isn't very good this year. I wish I knew the answer.
And if they were to get Sully fired, then I wouldn't get that, either (clearly, there's a lot I don't get).If this team burns thru another coach already (one with 2 Cups) I'd be way more sour on the core players than I would on Sullivan. That's a pattern.
For fun, please do.I can't build a realistic, supportable argument for firing Sullivan. Things would have to get big time weird.
They know they have jobs where they don't have the luxury of space. They'll get all the space they need when they retire in 8-10 years.They've done this before. We chalked it up to immaturity. We were wrong.
If I had to guess, they're probably all f***ed up in the head for playing so much hockey and accomplishing so much in 2 years. So these old guys want a little space. They had their hard day at the office and they get home to a spouse who is yelling at them to take the trash out, call the plumber, exercise, eat better, etc. and they're basically like, "motherf***er have you been living under a rock? Gimme some god damn breathing room. I know what I'm doing". But the spouse doesn't like to lose arguments, so it only gets worse.
1. Some historic level collapse, like 5-33-2 the rest of the way.For fun, please do.I can't build a realistic, supportable argument for firing Sullivan. Things would have to get big time weird.
I think this is Feb 14, 2009, after that ignominious loss to the TML (58 games in).Did they suck this bad after the 08 run, heading into Jan/Feb 09? Or it was prob pretty much the same, just different playoff format?
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