AV has done a mediocre job coaching this team so far this season. This team looks flat half of the time especially on home-ice. P.S...if i have to hear from AL and crew every goddamn minute how great the lightning is, I am gonna flip.
...................and let's not forget, TB gets Rangers' first round pick in 2015 draft. Lose-lose all around.
Great effort by the team. Dan Boyle has been a great addition thus far. Looks like he needs to retire after this game.
I know this is the MO of the board, and why it has almost become unreadable after a loss, but enough guys. It is getting really old now. Boyle stinks. Staal is garbage. Why is Girardi on the PP. We gave up a 1st round pick (we also got a 2nd round pick back AND most importantly...MAKE THE SCF). AV is coaching mediocore this season. It is crazy in here. Yeah it was a terrible flat performance tonight, but not every loss = the sky is falling. I don't love some things AV has done. I don't want Girardi anywhere near the PP. I also would let Staal go after the season. I happen to think Boyle will be good for this team and PP after he plays more than FOUR GAMES. So my issue isn't so much mentioning some of these things, it is the whining and bit*hing after every loss or bad game...it gets old. It is what it is, and everyone has their right to type whatever they want, I have no interest in controlling what other people feel or write, all I am saying is can we stop with the negative sky is falling everyone stinks stuff after every bad game...come on now.
Staal has been playing like garbage, pretty much the whole year except for a couple of games. It cant be argued. He needs to be moved. The sky is not falling but if this team cant get up for this kind of game, it is a huge concern. I don't know how you can accept these garbage efforts and be positive.
Girardi shouldn't be on the pp much if possible, he just isn't meant for it. I know they're a little shorthanded and J.Moore sucks this year but still, you have other ways around it.
The top four (Mcd, Girardi, Staal, Boyle) have not performed to their capabilities this year so far. Mcd was not setting the world on fire either before his injury. Not worried about Mcd. Girardi is what it is. Just have to live with him. Lots of milage on that body, Torts ran him to the ground. Boyle's best days are behind him but he may still help once in a while. The concern is Staal. Move him and get a good return. Klein has been our best D this year.
Staal wouldn't even bring back much, maybe a 3rd liner and a 2nd rounder. Better off probably just keeping him and hope he can help them make the playoffs. They'll probably pull a sentimental thing like they did with Girardi and over-sign him.
No way in hell McIlrath shouldn't be in the lineup over the small soft bum Hunwick or the guy who's been handed a golden opportunity and is choking on it J. Moore. Miller should be playing on the 4th line as well.
