Thomas Townsend: 24 Team Playoff? Rick Nash's impact on Columbus
- Thomas Townsend
I started following this team because of Rick Nash, a true power forward with a scoring touch that could rival that of Jerome Igninla.
Unfortunately the '' Rick Nash era'' is mired by incompetence at the upper levels, Doug Mclean was doing moves left to right without focusing on what mattered for his star player , a true number one center, instead he opted for these wing players that become useless without proper center depth. And his lack of vision for how the game evolved to puck moving defensman is astonishing, instead we had these stay at home guys the Hawks blogger at times jokingly called a '' Chinese fire drill'' to move the puck out of our own zone.
Scott Howson was the tipping point, vaunted as this bright young executive he did more of the same , although some bold moves such as Brule for Torres and Carter , that turned into a fiasco and probably marked the franchise as a perennial joke. I think once Carter wanted out , it made no sense for Rick to stay on a sicking ship.
One could wonder with all these injuries if management approached Rick to lace them up for the rest of the season...