[GDT] San Jose @ Stockton: Play-in game!(?) 7PM MT

[bigrangy]

5 minutes left, still 2-1 bad guys

[Canada 02]

3-0 Tucson

[Moneyhands23]

Originally Posted by bigrangy

5 minutes left, still 2-1 bad guys

Ugh

[Buck Murdock]

nm

[bigrangy]

45 seconds left, Stockton time out

Hopefully they can do it

[bigrangy]

Well, that sucked

#### the Barracuda

[Roof-Daddy]

Its nice that the farm team is taking after the parent team and being the California farm teams bitches. Might as well get used to it while they are down there so its not such a shock if they make the nhl one day.

[getbak]

Darn. At least they put up a fight right to the end.

[dissentowner]

Just like last year this team should have done well. I hope when they show the coaching staff the door they let Huska go as well. He has done nothing with Stockton.

[The Original FFIV]

Apologies if already covered but still baffled why you bring up Foo and gillies while heat still in playoff hunt. Ahl playoff run trumps meaningless nhl games in my books.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Just like last year this team should have done well. I hope when they show the coaching staff the door they let Huska go as well. He has done nothing with Stockton.

Besides basically every player being called up looking good, the Heat had to deal with a host of injuries and call ups. And it still came down to the last game of the season, it's not like they were cellar dwellers. It's a development team. And if they are developing players at a decent clip they're doing their jobs. I'd say the chance of that coaching staff being fired would be right around zero, as it should be. If I'm wrong I'll gladly eat crow. I'd be much more concerned if the players being called up looked out of place or weren't contributing.

[dissentowner]

Originally Posted by KootenayFlamesFan

Besides basically every player being called up looking good, the Heat had to deal with a host of injuries and call ups. And it still came down to the last game of the season, it's not like they were cellar dwellers. It's a development team. And if they are developing players at a decent clip they're doing their jobs. I'd say the chance of that coaching staff being fired would be right around zero, as it should be. If I'm wrong I'll gladly eat crow. I'd be much more concerned if the players being called up looked out of place or weren't contributing.

The players that have come up from Stockton that have done well were going to do well regardless. Why not mention how Poirier, Shinkaruk, Klimchuk, and others have developed into nothing under his watch? If you look at the Heat's roster they should have been a contending team every year he has been there, he has had excellent young players to work with and the Heat have done squat. Huska is garbage.

[Roof-Daddy]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

Just like last year this team should have done well. I hope when they show the coaching staff the door they let Huska go as well. He has done nothing with Stockton.

I dunno man, I'm not really in a place to defend the Flames in any way these days, I'm actually completely fed up with this organization right now, but I don't know how you can fault Huska for the team falling short.

They were tops in the division early on, but then lost Jankowski and Hathaway for the year, then Mangiapane for an extended time. Eventually they lost Mangiapane for the rest of the year to injury.

When Smith got hurt and both Gillies and Rittich were up with the Flames and Lack already traded, they had both Parsons AND McDonald get injured and miss time. Now they were on to goalie #7 and #8 from where the organization was to start the season.

They lost Andersson for a chunk of time.

Klimchuk missed time with injuries.
Foo got called up and was gone for the entire stretch drive.
Hrivic missed a pile of time.

..and on top of ALL that, this is not a team with any AHL ringers on it. They are super young to begin with, and don't have veteran AHL all stars to lean on and that's done on purpose in order to make the youngsters play bigger roles.

[getbak]

Tucson defeated San Diego 6-3, completing the Gulls' collapse down the stretch.

San Jose makes the playoffs, having won 6 straight to end the season, including 3 victories over the Heat and one over San Diego.

If only the Heat had been able to win just one of those games over San Jose.

[KootenayFlamesFan]

re: dissentower


.........or maybe the players aren't that good to begin with? Or had off ice issues? Or injuries?

You can't say the players called up were going to do well anyways so it doesn't count. How about the ones you mentioned? Weren't they going to do poorly regardless? We can both play that game.

I mean, it's pretty obvious that players like Klimchuk and Poirier have had issues for a while now, I really don't think that's Huska's fault in the least.

[Samonadreau]

I'm ok with not having a world beater of a team at the expense of not giving young players time to develop in key situations. But just because the team is missing the playoffs every season doesn't mean that is a given.

The jury is out on Hiuska.... let's see what he does with players like Mangiapane and Kylington. Those are the types of players that have the tools and just need to refine other parts of their game and fine tune what they came in already excelling at. If he can mold players like these into full time impact NHLers then that has doing his Job.