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Carl Yagro wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 9:47 am

Mëds wrote: ↑Mon Nov 03, 2025 9:09 pm Dat dere better Carl?

Hehe, I don't think Donny will find that better.

"You will respect my authoritah!"

- Donny Cartman

donlever wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 12:01 pm John Cougar.

donlever wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 11:39 am I'm gonna go ahead and disagree with all y'all.

Neutral moves on retreads we've been down the road with once already on the heels of last years Management shit show equate to failure.

If I hire a gumby, and he proves to indeed be a gumby and I shit can him for being a gumby that's on him.

If I hire him back thinking maybe he's not a gumby anymore and he's still a gumby that ends up in negative roi that's on me.

Kravstov quacks.

Dude is a duck.

Carl Yagro wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 12:14 pm

donlever wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 12:01 pm John Cougar.

Mellowchamp.

Not a gumby.

Lancer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 12:18 pm Kravtsov was a flyer of flyers. I agree with Widow in that it's a no-cost move, unless you want to count opportunity cost - but even then, his salary was paltry. Every team does it from time to time.

donlever wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 12:45 pm
Let me go at this from another off the cuff, shits and giggles direction

NHL Managment is a 24/7/365 endeavor.

Guys have to eat, sleep and diddle the old lady (ok maybe not JR) so let's presume, for sake of argument, they are on task 100 hours a week.

If JR, PA, the contracts team, coaches, trainers spent, again let's throw a number out there for fun, 300 hours on this guy and we base that on 100 hour work weeks the Canucks wasted potentially 3 weeks of time as well as cash money on an employee EVERY FAN on this board could have told them was a waste of time.

Which means they aren't spending that 3 weeks on something that is not a previously attempted, doomed to fail retread.

He's a duck.....

I have no issue with swinging for fences or throwing shit at walls to see if it sticks.

You have to take chances to create large successes.

But when you pick the shit up, walk it back to the other side of the room and throw it again knowing it isn't going to stick.

Well then that's a waste of time and money.

Especially when it is duck shit.

Lancer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 1:08 pm ....It's a good argument to get the cheap wop to cough up resources for better pro-scouting.

Lancer wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 5:59 am IIRC, Scandinavians have connections with that neck of the woods since vikings sailed down the Volga on the regular. On the topic of cabbage rolls and Eastern European cuisine, I have to say it's underrated. Surprised the Swedes didn't pick up on Shashlik along the way.

donlever wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 11:39 am
Kravstov quacks.

Dude is a duck.

Hockey Widow wrote: ↑Tue Nov 04, 2025 10:26 am I think it was a low risk move to see if the kid could play in the NHL after a pretty good return to the KHL. At least it wasn't a 5x5 type of deal. I also think he agreed to return on the promise that if he didn't make the Canucks they would try to trade him to another team to give him a shot, or terminate his contract somehow so he could return to the Mother land. I remember reading somewhere that that was the plan. He wouldn't stay a full season and stay in the AHL.

Too bad really. Abbey is hurting right now and he could not even take advantage of his opportunities there to showcase himself for other NHL teams.