Originally Posted by Classic_Sniper
Just look at the things that are posted here or the stuff you hear on overtime. It's just a bunch of variations of "we need more toughness and grit," "we need guys with more character," "we need guys who stand up to goons."
And what do we end up with, a who's who of players with character, toughness and grit over the years. The Chris Dingman's, Rocky Thompson's, the Jason Wiemer's, the Chris Clark's, the Shean Donovan's, the Eric Nystrom's, the Tim Jackman's, the Matt Stajan's, the Troy Brouwer's, the Curtis Lazar's and etc. The list is endless. We've also hired basically every Sutter who all epitomize character, grit and toughness. Not to mention we've drafted for years under this guideline which set this franchise back.
In all that time we've had maybe 1 Hall of Famer in Iggy? When we were winning the Stanley Cup and Presidents Trophies were deep on Hall of Fame talents. The fanbase, the media, as long as I've been a fan, we've been very guilty of never being hard enough on the GMs or the players like other Canadian teams. Instead we've decided to crap on coaches instead which has lead to 14 failed coaches in the last 29 years, an average of 2.07 years per term.
Toronto was very lucky. Their fans and media crapped on Brian Burke all the time and drove him out here and now look at where we are vs where they are; one of the best teams in the league with a highly entertaining team that's near the top in goals and a terrific prospect pool to boot.
Sadly, there's no accountability on Burke, King and co, don't even see a thread. All I see is a fire Gulutzan thread with 250,000 views and he's been here for what, 1.5 years? Yeah, the coaches are the real problem of this franchise, not the 20+ years of the same identical 1st round exits and 9th place finishes we've seen time and time again with whoever at the helm.
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