Sunday Links: "Taking All Suggestions On How To Put Together Back-to-Back Wins" Edition

fire Murray, and Trade Berglund and Kariya while you can.

we stop playing a man down all of the time. . .

or we get better at it. having Backes out for a majority of both of the last two games, has made me realize his value (even when he is cold on the scoring side of things). The worst part of it is, he may or may not be ready to play by Thursday. He physically could not skate coming off of the ice. I would expect to see Eller or Stasney brought back
Between that and the fact Cam only plays 3-7 mins/game. we are playing 3 lines all of the time. trading Win and BJ in for each other.

there is also the obvious. . . SCORE on the PP!! (and on the PK if you want, I am a fan of SH goals)

then we should win . . . and register some points

And shave his patchy “beard”

Also threaten to sic Louie on the veteran players kids…“PedoBear do your magic!”

Worked for mason and a bit for oshie

at least it was EJ who sent out that horrendous “pass” directly to Malhotra which led to the game winning goal. Can you imagine what would have happened if it were Brewer? Poor bugger would have been hung, drawn and quartered by now.

my new aisle guard this year is agnes (117) and sinc e i like to watch the pregame skate and sit somewhat near her ushering spot she talks to me, so we were discussing generl things (like when is that jd thing happening?) and she says i think the team quit on their coach, they have done it before.

wow. ushers telling fans the team is quitting 12 games into the season. lol. talk about bad vibes getting seriously out of hand.

as ugly as that game was and as fustrated as it made me watching it (as i had to sit next to shark fans to top everything off) 38 million shots vs. 15 isnt a sign, per se, of quitting on the coach.

however this team HAS quit on a coach, and if that rep is following them its going to be evil. i mean how many of the kitchen quitters are even still here to get everyone to quit on a totally ifferent staff that had just taken them to the playoffs!?!? and peeps talk about messages being ignored after a while, i’m not sure i ever believed it, but come on! 2 years of listening is now too long? yowza!!!!

needs to score. In which case…just send him to my house…

Craigslist is weird.

Anywho, a concern I had that popped into conversation over lunch today when one of my Thrashers bloggin’ buds asked me WTF was up with St. Louis, was the vibe from the young kids, most specifically in relation to the coach.

I’m not calling AM out, or saying Berglund was correct in saying that he wasn’t playing well because he was paranoid about being jumped on. But every time a complaint about a player is made in the press, it’s directed towards the young kids. Sometimes that helps them play harder, but after a while, it might weigh on them and make them figure “Well, if I screw up, he’s going to jump all over me, so I’ll play it safe.” It’s very, very shades of Bob Hartley, only probably not as bad (nothing tops benching Kovy for a whole game because he had a bad 3rd period the game before). I don’t think it’s entirely AM’s fault, but there’s a combination of problems here that need to be addressed one by one.

If yes, can we please get Andy Murray to realize his choice of Captain and Assistants…he gets a douche award for his praise of Kariya after the Nashville game.

And for the record—-Darren Pang is a moron—-what freaking game is he watching? His color is the most glib shit I’ve ever heard and one might question his IQ—-probably about 35.

anyone who wants to blame this all on the coaching staff is still invited to eat the Official Donut King Bag-O’-Dicks Deluxe™ (first referenced here).

Most of the players are paid a bunch more than the coach to play FOR that coach, and if they can’t figure out the scheme, then they’re fucking worthless and shouldn’t be here. To their credit, it appears most of the team is GETTING the system . . . it seems to be the handful of players that CAN’T get the system (or just suck out loud) that are fucking things up. And that needs to stop, and it starts with the players themselves.

One of those players seems to be (and I hoped I didn’t have to say this . . . ) the Captain (whom I shall no longer name by name). Or “The Captain Who Should Not Be Captain”. Whatever. Anyway, I can’t defend the guy any more. He’s not good, and I do realize that he was under a LOT of pressure because of who was traded for him, but it’s just PLAINLY obvious that he’s not as good as we could have hoped. Sorry about your luck . . . get out.

There are several other examples – some of whom I’m sure you could figure out just by watching – but that’s the glaring one.

And if you want to blame this on the coaches, go ahead. But eat that bag of dicks first, please. It’s for your benefit, and maybe it’ll shut you up in time to not say something you’ll regret.

sorry about that. It drives me crazy to type that so I’ll go with the temporary insanity card.