Strangelove wrote:nuckster wrote:barring a frikin miracle turn-around
Wouldn't take a miracle for Virtanen to end up being the better of the two.
Nylander is sheltered on a run-n-gun team... half his points have come on a vaunted PP.
Also doesn't backcheck and shies away from physical contact (2 concussions).
All reasons The Cock quite obviously doesn't like him.
Not saying Virtanen will turn out to be the better player
... just saying it's early, wouldn't take a "miracle".
Wouldnt it be great to be able to watch a 'run an gun' team as opposed to what we're enamoured with!? Gawd. There's been a number of games where i felt like we were being ripped right off - giving time to a product as a fan that could put us all to sleep... got better things to do with my time, hell a satisfying shit would be better than watching some of this garbage (case in point the recent game with the Coyotes where it took Burrows to register our first shit...err shot, in the second period). Seriously though, how do they expect to sell a product like that??
I wonder if Chicago would hang onto their aging stars like the Canucks did? The Sedins have a past due date of at least 2 years, and its like we're just stuck, like it or not, with this slow slow devolution. Im not in the camp anymore that maintains that 'we want to have our young players learn how to be an nhl player by playing with the oldtimers' - in truth it sounds a lot better than conveying the reality that we're basically stuck (or fucked) cause we have these huge albatross contracts that we're stuck with and no other team in its right mind will take them off our hands... Argh.
So maybe in x amount of years down the road we'll be fortunate enough to have the horses, and a coach, that can entertain us with a run an gun team (will it be 2 to 3 years as Doc says... we'll see). Right now it feels like we're watching paint dry.
As far as Nylander goes and the leaves, at least their mgt didnt try to bs their fans about what their reality was and they DID actually unload older vets for picks and they DID draft some exciting up an coming offensive players. I'll take watching their run an gun entertainment anyday (though i won't unless the Canucks are playing them... i mean theyre the frikin leaves right?) Sigh.
Frikin Virtanen anyways.