[Drunk Skunk]

Originally Posted by dobbles

thats what i initially thought this signing was about. bringing in a former mallards player to help drum up interest. fighting also drums up interest. but, so does winning, and a guy like this with about 7 career points, doesn't help us score any more goals. and though i am excited about many of the people we will have this year, including spang, we also lost a lot of out offensive guys from last season. so i worry we will be pretty bad at scoring goals again. because no matter how great a fighter is, you don't get any points on the scoreboard for winning fights. and even the 'fires up his team' aspect i think it pretty limited on influencing goal scoring.

but its probably just my bias towards guys that are there just to fight.

As I said on ITB -

Originally Posted by J

Greentree has the potential of scoring 30 goals in this league, and I look for him to replace Kolanos. If Ryder comes to play, he can easily offset the loss of Stevenson. The third, fourth, fifth, and sixth leading goal scorers from last season will all be returning. Add in the additions of John Armstrong, Hugo Carpentier, J.D. Watt(who's proved he can score in juniors), and Ryan Wilson - I think the Farm Flames will be just fine in the scoring department.

Spang will further improve that.