[News] Flames to terminate Grossmann's contract

[DeluxeMoustache]

Originally Posted by Vulcan

At least you didn't have him in your pool.

True enough. For anyone who did have him in their pool, there is a joke with the punchline "I don't swim in his toilet"

[icarus]

[The Fonz]

Originally Posted by The Fonz

It's disheartening; I expect the Flames coaching and management to be smarter than us message-board folk.

I'll leave it at that. I keep writing/deleting paragraph after paragraph, but can't seem to explain my thoughts on this.

Originally Posted by Lord Carnage

Ahhh... I see the problem...

They ARE smarter than us. There is NO way that a lifetime in the game makes them less so than us armchair GMs and Coaches... but many of us have this belief that "we understand the x" better than them, whether 'x' be the players, the strategy, the dressing room, etc.

Lots of people here talk quite intelligently, and much of the time with lots of great opinions (others not so much), but we shouldn't ever really think we ARE smarter. If we were, we would be the ones with the million dollar jobs.

Originally Posted by smiggy77

Thank you. My biggest pet peeve of this forum

Originally Posted by FanIn80

A professional welder who sucks at his job is still a better welder than someone who's never welded anything before.

What are you 3 going to think when Gulutzan ultimately pairs Giordano & Brodie back together, permanently, around the 25% mark of the season?

[smiggy77]

Originally Posted by The Fonz

What are you 3 going to think when Gulutzan ultimately pairs Giordano & Brodie back together, permanently, around the 25% mark of the season?

I'm not too sure what your point is.

Without talking to the others in which you have quoted in your post, I can confidently say that none of us would disagree that Gio and Brodie make a great pair and would rather see them rekindle their magic from the past year.

Regardless of this, our point being is that there is more to GM'ing/coaching/ running a team than what you see on TV. Thinking you're smarter than the guys who see 100% of it while we see 20% of an industry is extremely irrational.

[dying4acup]

Soooooo does Grosman get a ring when we win the cup?

[The Fonz]

Originally Posted by smiggy77

I'm not too sure what your point is.

Without talking to the others in which you have quoted in your post, I can confidently say that none of us would disagree that Gio and Brodie make a great pair and would rather see them rekindle their magic from the past year.

My point is, I'm not okay with our head coach needing 25% of the season before he realizes what an obvious mistake he made, and has continued to make, since game #1 when he split up one of the NHL's best defensive pairs. It's a mistake that had fans in an uproar before the puck had even dropped for game #1. It was real-time anger, there was no advantage of hindsight.

So I'll say the same thing that I did originally; I expect our coaching and management, the guys with "a lifetime in the game", to know better than us. When Giordano & Brodie are paired back up and their performance improves, along with the team's, it'll suggest otherwise.