It was the guy on the first page saying, 'Muta is sad' just because I like Joey Mac as a goaltender. Is that really necessary? It's not, whatsoever.
Didn't mean anything insulting by it. You and I had gone back and forth about MacDonald in another thread and I knew you were a big fan of his. I assume that because you've been posting here since 2002, you are a Flames fan. Therefore, I assumed you were sad that MacDonald, who you think is a good goalie and like, appears to be on his way off your favorite team.
You also brought up Tim Thomas as a "late bloomer" goalie and offered that perhaps MacDonald would be the same (has the tools, just needs longer to put them all together).
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It seemed like a joke comment based on your past comments. But it wasn't said about me so you are obviously free to take it however you like.
I don't see many tools from watching him play in Detroit and NYI. He always seemed slow and poor to react to the play. He does seem to make a lot of spectacular type saves but those seem to mainly come from him being out of position so much that he is forced to turn what should be routine saves into highlights as he recovers.
In his time with the Flames he showed flashes of brilliance zero times that I can remember and I don't even remember an above average game from him.
Great sum up of MacDonald here. Almost all his stellar saves are because he was either slow going laterally in the first place or just totally out of position, so he had to make a desperation move that for the most part, didn't work, but when it did people remember.
He's good at angles and fairly steady with rebound control. His feet are probably the slowest in the league, and his side to side movement is bottom 10% as well. His bread and butter is being in the right spot for the first save, after that, it's all luck for him.
Didn't mean anything insulting by it. You and I had gone back and forth about MacDonald in another thread and I knew you were a big fan of his. I assume that because you've been posting here since 2002, you are a Flames fan. Therefore, I assumed you were sad that MacDonald, who you think is a good goalie and like, appears to be on his way off your favorite team.
You also brought up Tim Thomas as a "late bloomer" goalie and offered that perhaps MacDonald would be the same (has the tools, just needs longer to put them all together).
Fine, but you understand how that looks like, right? The way you phrased it?
If you didn't mean it insulting, you should had said something like, Muta is probably sad that MacDonald is on waivers. Not... Muta is sad. These days, that insinuates like my opinion, as a person, is sad.
Nevertheless, thanks for coming out and clarifying. Appreciate that.
LOL. So it's okay to say another poster is 'sad' based on their opinion? Laughable. If that's the case, strombad is sad; you're not that great of a poster. Just deal with it and don't complain.
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Fine, but you understand how that looks like, right? The way you phrased it?
If you didn't mean it insulting, you should had said something like, Muta is probably sad that MacDonald is on waivers. Not... Muta is sad. These days, that insinuates like my opinion, as a person, is sad.
Nevertheless, thanks for coming out and clarifying. Appreciate that.
Sorry man, I don't know how you were insulted by that. If a player I genuinely liked was waived, I would be sad, and I would think everyone who saw a player they enjoyed go on waivers would feel equally sad.
No need to be a dick and call someone a bad poster just because they thought it was OK that someone assumed you should be rightfully sad over seeing a player you like get waived.
As far as Mac goes, yeah, I saw him play before he came to Calgary, you're not an expert on Joey Mac. We'll agree to disagree because I have never once seem him show flashes of being 'elite'. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
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As far as Mac goes, yeah, I saw him play before he came to Calgary, you're not an expert on Joey Mac. We'll agree to disagree because I have never once seem him show flashes of being 'elite'. Whatever floats your boat I guess.
Well, considering I've seen him more than you have, I have a better read on him.
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Surely there's an easier way to blood a new goalie than to throw them to the wolves against Chicago IN Chicago but with no defenders capable of clearing the crease.
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Surely there's an easier way to blood a new goalie than to throw them to the wolves against Chicago IN Chicago but with no defenders capable of clearing the crease.
Perhaps they want to throw him in the tough game and use first game in NHL as excuse rather than having Ramo with potentially another 4+ goal game.
Not an easy game for either guy and plenty of reasons to keep both out of it. Great game to have MacDonald around to eat the goals against.
