Of course Lundqvist would be better. He's the best goalie in the world.
No one is arguing about Bryz being a buyout candidate because he absolutely is.
What is irking me & others is that you refuse to add context to his statistics and just write off everything we say as excuses when that is not the case. - NickTheKid87
Thank you Nick...Lavy (frank)ed him up too...He shouldnt have benched a 50million dollar player in the winter classic. As far as i am concerned i put some of this bs on him as well.
I know im being a bit hard on the guy, but he didnt do much here in his time...i personally dont think he would have done much for the flyers this year...i think he needed to get traded to wake the hell up, but i wouldnt be surprised if he cools down a bit next year after he gets comfortable.
Clapton! Old Sock tour getting underway. I will be at MSG in April. - PLindbergh31
I'd check and see if he is playing remotely close to Lexington KY, but the default for most major non-country/folk/bluegrass artists is a resounding NO. I usually have to go to Columbus. Sometimes I get lucky and Cincinnatti or Louisville gets someone I want to see. Hell last time I saw Flyers game in person was in Columbus too.
Get plenty of this though (Full disclosure: I do love bluegrass music)
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Mar 11 @ 3:13 PM ET
i'm not the guy who chased people away from this site with my inability to say "i was wrong". i'm not that guy and i'm more than willing to own up to the many screw ups and misjudgments i've made. i think that's an important distinction to make on this site.
i have not labelled every defense of bryz a lot of excuses even though i saw too many last yr. i realize that this d lacks mobility and is below avg in it's outlet passing. the forwards cheat constantly and blow their assignments. the coach has failed to instill a defnsive mindset in this team and seems to consider timeouts as a sufficient adjustment. homer struck out this past off season and made what i thought, was a bad trade. bryz came back with a blank slate with most of the fan base and has wilted like the rest of the squad. i expected more given what he did in PHO and i haven't been impressed even given consideration all of the above.
when i first posted about bryz this morning someone, it was suggested that i'm just looking at his performance w/o taking the whole situation into context and that he shouldn't be considered a buyout candidate until circumstances around him improved. i disagreed and the name calling ensued from some directions. enough. - isaiah520
You literally wrote off every defense as excuses. As for what another poster might have done to 'chase people off', I really don't care. Talk to him about it. If you're talking about me, grow a pair and say it directly (really, I promise I won't be upset). But you definitely have dismissed not only the presented context, but the fact that nobody is saying they don't consider him a possible buyout recipient.
I'd check and see if he is playing remotely close to Lexington KY, but the default for most major non-country/folk/bluegrass artists is a resounding NO. I usually have to go to Columbus. Sometimes I get lucky and Cincinnatti or Louisville gets someone I want to see. Hell last time I saw Flyers game in person was in Columbus too.
Get plenty of this though (Full disclosure: I do love bluegrass music)
- Lexington Flyer
I was reading the other day about the Who concert in 1979 (Cincinnati) where 11 fans were trampled to death. Hadn't heard about that before. That's insane.
I'm saying the team as a whole knows it can't play that style. If the players that are on a team, aren't conducive to playing a certain way. What should the Coach do? Keep doing the same thing and say well it's not my fault the GM didn't get me the right players. Or should he adjust the way he wants the team to play, to a strategy and style of play that better fits the personel on hand? - MJL
The players aren't conducive to playing Laviolette's system? Where are you getting this information? I haven't heard any players say that. I don't think it's part of Laviolette's sytem to make bad line changes and to turn over the puck.
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Mar 11 @ 3:18 PM ET
Of course Lundqvist would be better. He's the best goalie in the world.
No one is arguing about Bryz being a buyout candidate because he absolutely is.
What is irking me & others is that you refuse to add context to his statistics and just write off everything we say as excuses when that is not the case. - NickTheKid87
it's as if i have to regurgitate what everyone else knows are the problems of the team. that's a given from where i sit. i look at the chances he faces and in spite of it all, i expect a better performance. he's an NHL goalie and that's a hell of a tough job, but irrespective of what's going on around him, there are saves we expect him to make and others we don't. they are all out on an island at some point.
after a promising start, he's below avg and IMHO, there have been too many stoppable shots that find their way in. then when i look at intangibles, i believe i see a guy who will struggle with the pressure here regardless. at some point, we have to look at his performance in PHO and compare it here and yes, we have to look at the contract moving forward. even w/ all of the downfalls here, he's still busier/ out of position then he could be in net and he seems to have trouble stemming the tide when pucks start going in. i want the guy to succeed, but obviously, i have my doubts. if the next 20 games are like the first part of this yr, i will be happy to eat crow.
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Mar 11 @ 3:23 PM ET
Sorry sir.
get off your ass and stretch. - jak521
I really should (especially before hockey), but I don't know how! I keep searching the internet, but the only health advice it gives me is to never eat wheat (because it's poison), switch to a paleodiet, and vote for Ron Paul.
The players aren't conducive to playing Laviolette's system? Where are you getting this information? I haven't heard any players say that. I don't think it's part of Laviolette's sytem to make bad line changes and to turn over the puck. - Dkos
I'm getting the information from the play on the ice. Poor line changes and bad puck management certainly isn't part of Laviolette's system. It is however his responsibility to correct those issues.
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Mar 11 @ 3:26 PM ET
Thank you Nick...Lavy (frank)ed him up too...He shouldnt have benched a 50million dollar player in the winter classic. As far as i am concerned i put some of this bs on him as well.
Lavy destroyer of goaltenders... - Philly1980
If i recall, thats when his play started improving.....look at his stats from that point on.
I was reading the other day about the Who concert in 1979 where 11 fans were trampled to death. Hadn't heard about that before. That's insane. - PLindbergh31
Funny story I was just remembering the other day: I was at a Grateful Dead show in 1992, Rich Stadium, just outside of Buffalo. Probably about 50,000+ at the show. Hot hot sunny day. Good fun crowd that had obviously tailgated much of the morning.
At set-break, my friends and I sat down in a big pow-wow circle and talked and did the sorts of things people do at set-break at a grateful dead show. We were just relaxing and biding the time, when all of a sudden a very inebriated/intoxicated, middle aged woman, who definitely had seen her share of hard and fast living crashed into our circle stomped on a few of us, and then proceeded to scream at us: "The Who '77, the (frank)ing Who '77 Cleveland!, bumholes like you all caused that mess and its going to happen to you here!" On and on she went like that for a few minutes until some dude dragged her on towards the exit. She got the year wrong, she got the city wrong (it was Cincy not Cleveland), but by god she was damn sure our mellow asses were going to cause a (frank)ing stampede. Needless to say, somehow I made it out alive that night. Worst thing that happened was having to smell somebody's B.O. and Jerry Garcia forgot a few lines (again).
