He's counting on Diaz to save the team. What a slap in the face to McIlrath again. Unbelievable. It's not the scoring of your defenseman you thickheaded, french canadian moron. It's the fact that Nash, Hayes and E. Staal continue to play like pussies. and do nothing.
At least Boyle will be out. I rather have McIlrath in than Diaz, agreed, but getting Boyle out is a step forward...even if it is Diaz in.
It's a move like this that shows to me that AV really has no clue. You're going to replace a defensive liability with an even worse defensive liability. If he thinks Boyle was bad, man, Diaz is gonna get destroyed out there. AV's thinking is obvious here....replace an offensive dman with another offensive dman. The issue is that that is not where our problem lies. We need our forwards to show up and we need better defensive dmen to be able to win a fucking board battle. Pittsburgh is winning all the puck battles along the boards and AV's answer is to bring in Boyle-light. Unreal.
I said this a while back. I would seriously consider trading McDonagh for the 2nd overall pick. I think Columbus or Edmonton if in that spot would do that. Vancouver wouldn't because they need to rebuild with more youth. Take Laine with the second overall pick. I really think Skjei with some experience will be very much like McDonagh. Put McDonagh on the Oilers and they make the playoffs. That is enormous for them.
What's comedy is what an arrogant asshole you are and you still haven't admitted you were completely wrong on this team. Try to man up for once.
When you grow up and learn to treat people with an ounce of respect you can lecture others. Until then you remain the ignorant and unintelligent mouth breather you have always been. Your quest to always try and be right regardless of the evidence of your past posts is only outdone by the fact that you have the lowest IQ around here and prove it with every tirade of insults that pour out of your mouth.
I havent advocated firing AV at all yet. I questioned a lot of his personnel decisions, and I STRONGLY disagreed with his treatment of McIlrath who looked great in his early extended stint. But I gave him the benefit of the doubt after the strong seasons he's had here thus far. 2 ECFs and one SCF in your first two seasons is not easy. But these last two games...he simply cannot survive this. He should be fired today.
Trying to put together fantasy teams don't work and the same goes for fantasy coaching staffs. AV to three guys with no coaching experience is not the answer.
Maybe AV goes and maybe he doesn't, but tough to fire a coach after one bad season when he has reached at least the ECF in his other seasons here. Might be a little unfair. We'll see...I doubt it happens.
At least Diaz has an ounce of brains of when to shoot the puck. These other $5m clowns overpass or do the complete opposite most of the time. Plus they miss the net by 30 yards.
AV inherited the team he took to the Cup from Torts, he's going in the wrong direction. His decision to bench Lindberg/McIlrath and play Hayes/Moore/Glass and then call up a loser like Diaz show ineptitude in talent assessment. Most damaging to AV is the lack of response by his team, not just a few players. After yesterday's debacle I'm with the fire AV crowd, especially if Messier is the replacement. Torts had playoff success too and was shown the door, it's not like AV took a gang of ragtag nobodies to the Cup. McDonough has been a lousy Captain, team effort or lack thereof is on him too. If Cindy represents the high bar for Captains talking/crying to the refs then McD is at the other end.
