The Late Night Poll: Weighted Against The Coach

by gallagher on Dec 30, 2009 1:36 AM CST

God damn, kilogram. Somehow it has come to pass that I am the internet face of the Fire Andy Murray campaign. Let me set this straight: I have never said that I want to see Andy Murray get fired. I am a layman, a nobody. My hockey coaching experience is limited to Mite hockey. As an assistant.

I don't know if the players love Murray or hate Murray. I have no idea if they'll play their guts out to keep him or if they tune him out as he croaks out instructions. Do they read his late-night letters he leaves under their doors? No fucking clue.

What I have said all along is that ownership is made up of businessmen. Successful businessmen. You know, the type who made their money by being good, not by inheriting daddy's good business? Those type of businessmen don't have tolerance for failing managers. And right now, Mr. Murray is a failing manger.

And hence, your poll...

Poll

Dear Andy Murray...

Pack your shit.

143 votes

It's clearly not your fault, so we're going to start trading everyone tomorrow.

26 votes

That Sydor-Brewer combo looked solid.

17 votes

It's been three shifts, why are the lines not changing?

46 votes

232 votes | Poll has closed

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If you don't want to be the face ...

There are a few of us here who will gladly take that responsibility. Do I think he deserves to get fired, eh … probably not. It’s not his fault his players suck. But, the players make a helluva a lot more money than him and you can’t get rid of them all. Someone has to take the fall for this shit storm, and it’s gotta be the head man.

Murray isn’t a bad coach. He’s doing all the same things he was doing when the team was winning, they just aren’t working now. Should he change? Maybe, but it worked with basically the same players.

Something has to be done. This team is a joke right now and the fan base that returned in early 2009 is getting turned off. Checketts and crew need to make a move or else the cash flow will turn into a drizzle.

by averagejoe on Dec 30, 2009 2:09 AM CST reply actions

Everythings gonna be fine...

The Blues are bringing out new 3rd jersey, an all pink home jerseys! (Can we do the shirt contest again) This will blow the roof off merchandise sales giving us enough money to sign Paul Kariya to a 13 year contract worth millions. (Did anyone else see Kariya ’making out with Louie in the press-box)

Can you bench a coach?(Before or after he has a hockey stick rammed up his ass) or make him drive the Zamboni during home games with Jackman on the hood singing “chicken fried”?(you know the song) … We need some kind of entertainment at home games and this might work!

by Woodn on Dec 30, 2009 2:42 AM CST up reply actions

Not that it should happen . . .

but really, what the fuck would be stopping it at this point?

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday." -- Don Marquis

by Donut King on Dec 30, 2009 11:35 AM CST reply actions

exactly

If you have a donkey and i have a chicken and youre donkey ate my chickens feet what would you have.... 2 feet of my cock in youre ass!! haha

by bleedblue2009 on Dec 30, 2009 12:54 PM CST up reply actions

andy murray

went to another disappointing game (nashville this time). Good move benching EJ in favor of the useless brewer/jackman combo. Backes and Walt didn’t show up until midway thru the 3rd period. Another 70 shot nite only thing is only 20 are actually on the net the rest are 10 feet wide and 5 feet high. These guys should spend their next week of practice doing nothing but shooting the puck at the net. Firing A. M. would be great but there is no one to replace him with right now. Just hang on til the summer and then see who becomes available.

by carrier rte 11 on Dec 30, 2009 9:57 PM CST reply actions

Brewer/Jackman combo?

Really?

That would be Brewer/Sydor. Sydor had sat a couple of games and was rested. He is a battler. And you cannot come on here and tell me that EJ had been playing well lately. He just hasn’t been. Only time will tell if the night off did something for him.

And please don’t start putting down Jackman. Does he make some bad passes sometimes? Yes. But, in my opinion, he and Polak are the best combo we have.

And, again IMO, Jackman is the real C of this team. He is the one getting in scums for teammates.

We have young players who will, and are, inconsistent.

They main problem is that we also have veteran guys who are suppose to step up and be that veteran group to over-compensate for the inconsistencies of our talented, but inconsistent, group of young players. This isn’t happening.

Boyes is lost during most games. Walt is lost during most games. Even Mac is lost, and his aren’t because of lack of effort. These guys have to step up. And they must step up now, or this season is done.

Its weird... half the year my blood is red... but then the other half... it's blue... hm...

by PeacockJac on Dec 30, 2009 10:37 PM CST reply actions

I was mostly on Murray's side with this

But when he says that he puts the players on the ice that give him the best chance to win every night, and then benches someone like Johnson, I think that he is simply riding the kids harder than the vets, and some of them don’t deserve it.
When Keenen benched Hull for a game, it was a major signal for the end of his employment with the Blues. I don’t want to put Johnson in the same category as Hull (yet?), but I do see a similarity of a coach just reaching for straws to send a message, any message, to the players.

by Bleedbluecp2 on Dec 30, 2009 11:08 PM CST reply actions