It's time for AS to give MT his walking papers
Nov 15, 2002 21:15:20 GMT -5
Post by MPLABBE on Nov 15, 2002 21:15:20 GMT -5
I have seen enough. Every single game we get outshot, outhustled and outmuscled. If Hackett or Theodore are NOT OUTSTANDING(they can be good or great...like hack tonight and get killed) we will bet blown out. We have no system at all. At first, we tried to play a total offence game, then we switched back to the trap, then we wanted more offence and it goes on and on. This is COACHING my friends. This team has TOO MUCH TALENT to get killed every time we face an elite team. This team has TOO MUCH TALENT to get outshot by ridiculous margins every night. This team has TOO MUCH TALENT to look so horrible in every facet of the game. It's coaching. There is no other explanation. Savard certainly deserves some blame for loading up the team with too many right wingers and not enough left wingers, he certainly deserves blame for having such a horrible quality/price ratio and he deserves blame for building such a soft defence. But it's stops there. There is no way a team with excellent PKers like Juneau, Dackell, Bulis, Kilger, McKay,etc should be among the worst in the league on the PK. There is no way a team with the talent we have on the PP should give up so many shorthanded goals and look so brutal on the PP most of the time.
Tonight's game is the perfect example of why MT must go. We had 2 good lines so far this year. The Bulis-Juneau-Dackell line and whoever played with Zednik and Koivu. So what does MT do? he tells Bulis and Dackell to play on the 4th line so the ''slowest line in league history'' could be assembled in Juneau-Gilmour-McKay. Bulis and Dackell who have played fine hockey get shafted, Juneau is pissed and that line has done SQUAT! Then, against a great defensive team on the road, he decides to put a Petrov-Perreault-Czerkawski line together. Of course they will look terrible defensively...all Burns has to do is put out good offensive players against them and they'll be pinned in in their own end.
And this is only minor. Let's look at his record with youth and quite frankly it sucks as bad as his system. Ron Hainsey, a top 20 NHL prospect who impressed everyone in training camp, has a great first game then ONE bad game playing with a Quintal who got tomahawked the night before, he gets scratched for Traverse, MT and Green tell him to stop playing like Hainsey and start playing like Rick Green and guess what? Hainsey never was the same after and no wonder. No power play time.Andrei Markov had to go through tons of obstables just to make the team. Marcel Hossa scored what? 4 goals last year and found himself on the 4th line in the game right after. We get Sergei Berezin, he decides Mike Ribeiro should play RW on a line with Perreault and Berezin. Result? Ribeiro struggles, loses his confidence and did squat the rest of the way
I have had enough. 2 years is more than enough time to judge a coach and a staff. Michel Therrien may be a great guy, he may be a down to earth guy, he may be a great junior and AHL coach but when he faces a great coach like Burns or Hitchcock or Quennevile he gets TAKEN TO SCHOOL. Habs fans don't deserve this crap. Get off your butt AS, we are not idiots, TIME FOR A CHANGE!
End of rant.
Tonight's game is the perfect example of why MT must go. We had 2 good lines so far this year. The Bulis-Juneau-Dackell line and whoever played with Zednik and Koivu. So what does MT do? he tells Bulis and Dackell to play on the 4th line so the ''slowest line in league history'' could be assembled in Juneau-Gilmour-McKay. Bulis and Dackell who have played fine hockey get shafted, Juneau is pissed and that line has done SQUAT! Then, against a great defensive team on the road, he decides to put a Petrov-Perreault-Czerkawski line together. Of course they will look terrible defensively...all Burns has to do is put out good offensive players against them and they'll be pinned in in their own end.
And this is only minor. Let's look at his record with youth and quite frankly it sucks as bad as his system. Ron Hainsey, a top 20 NHL prospect who impressed everyone in training camp, has a great first game then ONE bad game playing with a Quintal who got tomahawked the night before, he gets scratched for Traverse, MT and Green tell him to stop playing like Hainsey and start playing like Rick Green and guess what? Hainsey never was the same after and no wonder. No power play time.Andrei Markov had to go through tons of obstables just to make the team. Marcel Hossa scored what? 4 goals last year and found himself on the 4th line in the game right after. We get Sergei Berezin, he decides Mike Ribeiro should play RW on a line with Perreault and Berezin. Result? Ribeiro struggles, loses his confidence and did squat the rest of the way
I have had enough. 2 years is more than enough time to judge a coach and a staff. Michel Therrien may be a great guy, he may be a down to earth guy, he may be a great junior and AHL coach but when he faces a great coach like Burns or Hitchcock or Quennevile he gets TAKEN TO SCHOOL. Habs fans don't deserve this crap. Get off your butt AS, we are not idiots, TIME FOR A CHANGE!
End of rant.