Answer the question.
- Two_For_Truth

Yes

Oh there's talent there don't get me wrong.

I just think tippet could probably make any team a playoff team (so long as they buy into his system)
- Dozzer

Maloney has done an excellent job getting the players he needs to play in the system and drafting them. Truth be told I'd love to have him in TO, I wonder what he could do with a budget. If ever there was a guy who could boast he "Builds from the backend out" it's him.

Wang wants to plant the seeds for a team in the deep south?

Mexico?

Eeek, someone should tell him that's technically the wrong hole
- AngryWhiteMale

I got the perfect name if they put an NHL team in Mexico:

The Mexico Tourist Shooters. Get it? hockey players shoot pucks, Mexicans shoot tourists. The logo could be a hockey player wearing a sumbraro while pointing the knob of his hockey stick like a rifle.

Phoenix is about an idiotic experiment that went wrong and now they're stuck with what appears to be an unbreakable lease in Glendale.
- Two_For_Truth

The utter stupidity of Glendale's city council and its voter's tax money means the city and team were made for eachother

2- first round picks......ask Boston if they want him back ....

2- first round picks......ask Boston if they want him back ....
- Canuckfan2006

RIP

RIP
- Fruitcakenipple

LOL,

was wondering who'd take a crack at that.

C'mon, it's almost his 7 year anniversary on this site.

Be nice

The utter stupidity of Glendale's city council and its voter's tax money means the city and team were made for eachother
- AngryWhiteMale

Unless something is missing from the picture, I'm pretty sure Glendale is doing everything it can to force the NHL to stay there because they paid big money to build the arena. If the NHL could get out without having to deal with the lease issues, they would have done it a long time ago. At the end of it all, somebody is going to have to pay to leave Phoenix.

Unless something is missing from the picture, I'm pretty sure Glendale is doing everything it can to force the NHL to stay there because they paid big money to build the arena. If the NHL could get out without having to deal with the lease issues, they would have done it a long time ago. At the end of it all, somebody is going to have to pay to leave Phoenix.
- Two_For_Truth

They should have had the forsight to realize an ice hockey team isn't going to work in the desert.

Sadly this reality never dawned on taxayers when they showed up to the polls over the years.

Then again Bettman gets what he deserves

Unless something is missing from the picture, I'm pretty sure Glendale is doing everything it can to force the NHL to stay there because they paid big money to build the arena. If the NHL could get out without having to deal with the lease issues, they would have done it a long time ago. At the end of it all, somebody is going to have to pay to leave Phoenix.
- Two_For_Truth

You should start a Go Leafs Go chant in the thread. Raise some fan spirit and excitement for the game tonight.

2- first round picks......ask Boston if they want him back ....
- Canuckfan2006

Mabie Nonis can offer Kessel for Seguin & Hamilton? Great steal for the B's cause they still got to keep Jerod Knight.

They should have had the forsight to realize an ice hockey team isn't going to work in the desert.

Sadly this reality never dawned on taxayers when they showed up to the polls over the years.

Then again Bettman gets what he deserves
- AngryWhiteMale

The arena is the centerpiece of one of the biggest commercial centers in Arizona with malls and other crap all built around it.

Yes
- AdamFrench

As I suspected.

It's time for Phil to be a knight and do it right.

As I suspected.
- Two_For_Truth

Well duh, Tavares alone is the clincher

The problem with Kessel isn't Kessel, it's Bozak. He looks awful this year, no vision, and never makes the right move. I say get rid of Bozak for pucks, and then offer something to the Avs for O'Reilly unless we want to make a move for Getzlaf. Kessel won't be to his full potential until the Leafs give him someone to play with.

It's time for Phil to be a knight and do it right.
- systemtool

$100 says he doesn't score

The problem with Kessel isn't Kessel, it's Bozak. He looks awful this year, no vision, and never makes the right move. I say get rid of Bozak for pucks, and then offer something to the Avs for O'Reilly unless we want to make a move for Getzlaf. Kessel won't be to his full potential until the Leafs give him someone to play with.
- leafs30

I can't believe all the excuses you guys make for Kessel

Well duh, Tavares alone is the clincher
- AdamFrench

Mike Milbury ruined a once great franchise. If it weren't for him, they would have Chara, Spezza and Luongo. Completely different franchise.

Mike Milbury ruined a once great franchise. If it weren't for him, they would have Chara, Spezza and Luongo. Completely different franchise.
- Two_For_Truth

You missed Olli Mother(frank)ing Jokinen

You missed Olli Mother(frank)ing Jokinen
- AdamFrench

Ted Bortuzee

You missed Olli Mother(frank)ing Jokinen
- AdamFrench

I left him out because Milbury acquired him then traded him. Doesn't count as much as the other three.

Also, he insisted on taking DiPietro 1st overall, over both Heatley and Gaborik, and then trading away Luongo the same day.

Easily the worst GM in the history of the game. Nobody has ever ruined a franchise like that before.

I left him out because Milbury acquired him then traded him. Doesn't count as much as the other three.

Also, he insisted on taking DiPietro 1st overall, over both Heatley and Gaborik, and then trading away Luongo the same day.

Easily the worst GM in the history of the game. Nobody has ever ruined a franchise like that before.
- Two_For_Truth

Yet he will be on Coaches Corner in 3-4 years telling us all what to think.

I can't believe all the excuses you guys make for Kessel
- Arctic_AARDVARK

Kessel is too scared to go to the net, and he's predictable, that's why he can't score.

Yet he will be on Coaches Corner in 3-4 years telling us all what to think.
- AdamFrench

Love him or hate him, good or bad, nobody will ever be able to replace Don Cherry but Milbury would certainly be a leading candidate to take over.