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| − | + | You always hope your team improves over the summer. Team should make the player acquisitions, change coaching personnel or introduce team policies that ultimately strengthen the team. Unfortunately for hockey fans, the following three teams actually regressed over the summer. | |
| − | + | 1.San Jose Sharks | |
| − | + | General manager Doug Wilson talked a big game after blowing a 3-0 series lead and exiting the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the first round: | |
| − | + | I think what we need to do is much more drastic than just putting a band-aid on it. When you enter <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Tory-Burch-Tunic-Dress>Tory Burch Tunic Dress</a> into this type of phase, no options should be off the table. You explore everything. | |
| + | Thus far, those options have included letting veteran defenseman Dan Boyle leave as an unrestricted free agent and stripping Joe Thornton of the captaincy. Oh, and they ve introduced ice girls to the mix. | ||
| + | Not a single move the Sharks have made look to be an improvement for the team. They have the reputation for being a superb team in the regular season and complete disappointment in the post-season. Now, they look like they ll just be a big disappointment all the way around next season.聽 | ||
| + | 2. Minnesota Wild | ||
| + | 聽The Wild lack depth. | ||
| + | Mikko Koivu is an adequate center. He s usually flanked by Zach Parise and Charlie Coyle. Charlie who? Oh, right, young guy, scored 20 goals in two seasons that s right, it took him two seasons to score 20 goals, and he s in the Wild s top <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Michael-Michael-Kors-Boots>Michael Michael Kors Boots</a> line. They did pick up Thomas Vanek, but he s rumored to be on the decline. Mikael Granlund and Jason Pominville round out their top-6. Yeah, once you get past Parise, there s pretty much not an offensive scare on the team. | ||
| + | To be fair, they re more of a defensive-minded team, which explains why they play Ryan Suter until he pukes, almost. At a certain point, he s going to burn out.聽And they do have a scary guy in , though that s mostly due to his propensity for dirty play. They also don t know who their goalie is going to be from game to game. | ||
| + | The Wild have a strong system based on mucking up the neutral zone. However, a strong line of offensive dynamos blows that wide open. If the Wild thought they addressed that with Vanek, especially since they still haven t signed Nino Niederreiter well, they re聽delusional. | ||
| + | So, they added Vanek, but they lost talented forward Matt Moulson to the Buffalo Sabres as well as defenseman Clayton Stoner and one-time 50 goal scorer Dany Heatley, both to the Anaheim Ducks. They may well still lose Niederreiter.聽聽Who they lost over the summer coupled with their failure to address a lack of depth explains why they regressed over the summer. | ||
| + | 3. Boston Bruins | ||
| + | The Bruins lost power forward Jarome Iginla. Say what you want about his age, he played 78 regular-season games last season, scoring 30 goals and 31 assists for a total 61 points. The Bruins are another defensive-minded team, meaning they re not lousy with scorers, and they did little to address that loss. They re hoping winger聽Loui Eriksson bounces back, but he s an injury-prone sort. That s not good in the game of hockey. | ||
| + | The Bruins didn t regress as far as the Sharks and Wild. <a href=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Jimmy-Choo-Hunter-Wellies-For-Sale>Jimmy Choo Hunter Wellies For Sale</a> They still have their Vezina Trophy-winning goalie Tuukka Rask. They still have a shutdown defense. They still have Milan Lucic to scare the competition. | ||
| + | However, in addition to losing Iginla, they hired a ridiculous assistant coach Joe Sacco. In Colorado, he s infamous for being the coach who ran the team into the ground, thus providing the reason for the Avalanche s miraculous season they weren t bad to begin with. Granted, in Boston he ll just be an assistant, but he s not likely to add to the team, so why have him involved at all? | ||
| + | | ||
| + | So, Sharks, Wild and Bruins fans, sorry, but you re probably in for a disappointing season. | ||
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| + | Phot credit: 聽Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images | ||
| + | The following two tabs change content below. | ||
Revision as of 23:04, 25 September 2014
You always hope your team improves over the summer. Team should make the player acquisitions, change coaching personnel or introduce team policies that ultimately strengthen the team. Unfortunately for hockey fans, the following three teams actually regressed over the summer. 1.San Jose Sharks General manager Doug Wilson talked a big game after blowing a 3-0 series lead and exiting the Stanley Cup Playoffs in the first round:
I think what we need to do is much more drastic than just putting a band-aid on it. When you enter <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Tory-Burch-Tunic-Dress>Tory Burch Tunic Dress</a> into this type of phase, no options should be off the table. You explore everything.
Thus far, those options have included letting veteran defenseman Dan Boyle leave as an unrestricted free agent and stripping Joe Thornton of the captaincy. Oh, and they ve introduced ice girls to the mix. Not a single move the Sharks have made look to be an improvement for the team. They have the reputation for being a superb team in the regular season and complete disappointment in the post-season. Now, they look like they ll just be a big disappointment all the way around next season.聽 2. Minnesota Wild 聽The Wild lack depth. Mikko Koivu is an adequate center. He s usually flanked by Zach Parise and Charlie Coyle. Charlie who? Oh, right, young guy, scored 20 goals in two seasons that s right, it took him two seasons to score 20 goals, and he s in the Wild s top <a href=http://www.avanttravel.com/page.php?sale=Michael-Michael-Kors-Boots>Michael Michael Kors Boots</a> line. They did pick up Thomas Vanek, but he s rumored to be on the decline. Mikael Granlund and Jason Pominville round out their top-6. Yeah, once you get past Parise, there s pretty much not an offensive scare on the team. To be fair, they re more of a defensive-minded team, which explains why they play Ryan Suter until he pukes, almost. At a certain point, he s going to burn out.聽And they do have a scary guy in , though that s mostly due to his propensity for dirty play. They also don t know who their goalie is going to be from game to game. The Wild have a strong system based on mucking up the neutral zone. However, a strong line of offensive dynamos blows that wide open. If the Wild thought they addressed that with Vanek, especially since they still haven t signed Nino Niederreiter well, they re聽delusional. So, they added Vanek, but they lost talented forward Matt Moulson to the Buffalo Sabres as well as defenseman Clayton Stoner and one-time 50 goal scorer Dany Heatley, both to the Anaheim Ducks. They may well still lose Niederreiter.聽聽Who they lost over the summer coupled with their failure to address a lack of depth explains why they regressed over the summer. 3. Boston Bruins The Bruins lost power forward Jarome Iginla. Say what you want about his age, he played 78 regular-season games last season, scoring 30 goals and 31 assists for a total 61 points. The Bruins are another defensive-minded team, meaning they re not lousy with scorers, and they did little to address that loss. They re hoping winger聽Loui Eriksson bounces back, but he s an injury-prone sort. That s not good in the game of hockey. The Bruins didn t regress as far as the Sharks and Wild. <a href=http://www.radiorcs.com/page.php?sale=Jimmy-Choo-Hunter-Wellies-For-Sale>Jimmy Choo Hunter Wellies For Sale</a> They still have their Vezina Trophy-winning goalie Tuukka Rask. They still have a shutdown defense. They still have Milan Lucic to scare the competition. However, in addition to losing Iginla, they hired a ridiculous assistant coach Joe Sacco. In Colorado, he s infamous for being the coach who ran the team into the ground, thus providing the reason for the Avalanche s miraculous season they weren t bad to begin with. Granted, in Boston he ll just be an assistant, but he s not likely to add to the team, so why have him involved at all? So, Sharks, Wild and Bruins fans, sorry, but you re probably in for a disappointing season. Phot credit: 聽Thearon W. Henderson/Getty Images The following two tabs change content below.
