Dear Coach Q

calling his defensive abilities dogshit after one of his best all around games of the year is just bad timing.

heh, yes

also, these are professional athletes, if they need their coach to provide negative and postive reinforcement to do their job then there is an even bigger issue.

But hey, that’s just me.

Well, from all accounts hockey players are human beings. As such, it’s my (admittedly) layman’s opinion that they’re all, to varying degrees, going to react differently, for worse and for bettter, to all kinds of external and internal motivation—and to varying frequencies and intensities of it, both publicly or privately—ranging from outright public slagging to private hand-holding. A couple would probably react Kesler-like to getting called out. Vigneault—I hate to compliment him—obviously saw something lacking in Kesler’s game that need public mention.

I’m not an experienced motivator of people who earn millions of dollars to play a sport, so I don’t really feel like I could present ideas. They are human, though, and not all of them are governed exclusively according to their ego. And even if they were, there are tons of ways to attend to that ego depending on its size and nature.

I mean does anyone think that these players are missing the net on purpose, that all it takes is someone to publicly call them out and they’ll somehow be able to bury these shots from now on? If they were able to pot that goal, they would have done it already.

Do I think a player like Kane probably takes the negative things people say about him and roll with it? I do actually, I think the underdog mentality really works for him, and the more someone says he can’t do something, the more he wants to prove them wrong. Do I think the Rangers – and I mean anyone on the Rangers – gave a shit about Thornton calling them soft after they had beat his team? Hell no.

And seriously, stop being a condescending prick and engage in some actual dialogue. If that’s beyond you then let me know and I’ll stop trying to have an actual conversation.

Toe Blake thinks that noted red-asses Brad Richards and Marian Gaborik could give a shit about being called soft, so there.

But I have seen some reporters (off camera but by voice I recall Tracey M and Sassone) ask follow-ups and direct questions about Scott and Q generally gives very general, indirect answers….for instance I’ve heard him asked about the extra minutes other D-men assume when Scott plays and he’ll generalize about the number of minutes they want to keep Seabs and Keith at or under and blah blah blah generality generality and then some other reporter asks something else and the subject loses momentum…..Our local beats certainly lack persistence, couple that with the ’Stache’s intimidating glare and they pretty much roll over.

there are very few things that could make me give up on this team and season and none of it has happened, or likely will. i can’t even see the ledge from where i’m standing. But that doesn’t mean i don’t see the problems we have, just means i think we can and will fix them

this exactly.

Can I just come out and say I agree with your posts just about 100% of the time. I’ll save some time.

I don’t think the Badgers draw too much hockey attention in Milwaukee anyway. They have the Admirals which have drawn well at times. I think with proper marketing and promotion an NHL team could make it in Milwaukee.

same thing?

If anything, he moved up the ranks faster than most thanks to Nepotism and seems completely out of his league.

Way to capitulate.

and realize also that strange things can happen in the playoffs if a team is trending upward when they get there. So you hope for that: that a very good team who is playing poorly will find their game. If they do, they’ll give it a run.

Just like the last two Super Bowl Champions in Green Bay and New York Giants.

And let’s not forget the 2010 Flyers that made it to the Final, along with the Oilers and Flames in 2004 and 2006 respectively. It can happen, you just have to believe and it starts within the dressing room.

Every player has a roll. Every player has a purpose. Every player has that something special about them.

If Artem Anisimov can go 18 game without a point and stay on the checking line, why can’t Frolik who may be better defensively than Anisimov. And what wrong with Bolland being the rat? That’s his schtick so let him be that player and take on every team’s top line and allow him to be motivated to do so. Give him that responsibility.

What was so wrong with Kane at centre when paired with Hossa? They had that special chemistry that not too many teams posses. Yet he’s moved back with Toews because Sharp and Toews can’t click? Bullfunky. Time to reunited the two with Sharp back with Toews.

We have the right mix. Stop the blending and the bleeding and start succeeding.

In exchange for some large wingers to play alongside Kesler.

Chicago has NOTHING the Canucks would want.

the Swiss NLA regular season finishes on 25th of Feb.. Fribourg are currently second so will likely qualify for the playoffs.. last years final was mid-April

Oops, wrong team.

But they definitely want one of the two spots in the conference, considering how tough the early rounds could be against the teams that fall into the 5 and 6 slots.

This is becoming an epidemic.

are a product of the upcoming CBA uncertainty. Beauch? signed with the Ducks for a little less than he’s currently making. Gleason got a raise but Carolina also has 2 other defensemen that are UFA’s at the end of the year. Can’t say for sure but it seems logical that these guys accepted deals thinking they may not get better ones after the new CBA comes out.

and the announcers saying if he got in a 3rd hed be gone

/Badgerdano’d