01-17-2017, 02:06 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Calgary
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Islanders Fire Jack Capuano
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01-17-2017, 02:08 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: San Fernando Valley
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What a mess. Just when it was looking like the Islanders were finally, finally turning the corner they go full Islanders. I'm sure the team's dip in performance this season has nothing to do with the fact the GM made them worse in the offseason.
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01-17-2017, 02:10 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: May 2016
Location: Calgary
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Could make for some awkward dinners at the Snow residence.
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01-17-2017, 02:19 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Thunder Bay Ontario
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At least Maurice will have a job to go to next year.
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01-17-2017, 02:20 PM
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Fearmongerer
Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: Wondering when # became hashtag and not a number sign.
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Yup Capuano deserved better than this.
Next step will be Tavares wanting out from the zoo.
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01-17-2017, 02:21 PM
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Powerplay Quarterback
Join Date: Apr 2015
Location: ...the bench
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well, it's going to be much harder for them to convince Tavares that they're 'building a winner' if they don't turn the ship around.
if/when they lose him....that franchise is back to being in rough shape.
PS. lol @ that Ladd deal.
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01-17-2017, 02:31 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Income Tax Central
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That guy has been a dead man walking for a while now.
Which is a shame.
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01-17-2017, 02:34 PM
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Scoring Winger
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The Islanders are a mess. The ownership situation. The arena situation. The poor GM decisions. The subpar draft record and lack of young players / prospects.
They have been through two long playoff droughts in the last two decades and only have Tavares to show for it. They are wasting the prime of his career.
I wouldn't know what to do if I was the Islanders GM. Capuano or not, the Isles are not built to contend. Do you tear it down and rebuild? Hope you can sneak into the playoffs this year or next?
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01-17-2017, 02:47 PM
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NOT breaking news
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Calgary
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wait, the Islanders won 4-0 yesterday. I thought Julian was on the hotseat
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01-17-2017, 02:48 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Maple Bay, B.C.
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No better time to fire the coach then after a 4-0 shutout win on the road.
/I know there's way more to it than that, the timing is pretty funny though.
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01-17-2017, 02:59 PM
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Franchise Player
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Nothing like rebuilding a team just to the point of mediocrity, getting cheap and letting good players in their prime go, and then expecting to improve.
No way Tavares sticks around in that circus.
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01-17-2017, 03:31 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: nexus of the universe
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Did he have to hail his own cab out front of the arena after the game?
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01-17-2017, 03:58 PM
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Franchise Player
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I thought I read somewhere that Capuano was renting Snow's basement?
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01-17-2017, 04:04 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Mar 2007
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
I thought I read somewhere that Capuano was renting Snow's basement?
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Thats going to make dinner....rather awkward.
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01-17-2017, 04:05 PM
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Needs More Cowbell
Join Date: Aug 2002
Location: Not Canada, Eh?
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Think Tavares will test free agency. Flames might be able to fit him under the cap.
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01-17-2017, 04:08 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Nov 2014
Location: Kelowna
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Islanders issues have spurned from player development going back to Ryan Strome and Ryan Pulock not figuring it out. Dal Colle is following a similar trajectory. Its one thing not to be able to develop your lower end picks but if your higher end picks aren't panning out theirs huge issues. These are the guys that should be complimenting Tavares
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01-17-2017, 04:09 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Calgary
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Huntingwhale
I thought I read somewhere that Capuano was renting Snow's basement?
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I bet Snow refuses to let him out of his lease.
What a sad state for the once great franchise.
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01-17-2017, 04:19 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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If Tavares does want to move the flames should go all in, whatever it takes. Toronto would likely become cup contenders if he were to go there though.
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01-17-2017, 05:29 PM
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: SW Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by cannon7
Think Tavares will test free agency. Flames might be able to fit him under the cap.
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He is going to the Leafs for sure, bet on it!
Signed Big Tuna
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01-17-2017, 10:33 PM
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Some kinda newsbreaker!
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Location: Learning Phaneufs skating style
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McKenzie reporting that the Islanders asked permission to talk to Gerrard Gallant... weeks before firing Capuano.
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