Cold Hard Truth Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 rather keep Torts and lose the softies, make this a Tortorella team and not this halfway to Ikea nothing loser fest. Keep Torts, Trade Sedins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JiffyPB Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 rather keep Torts and lose the softies, make this a Tortorella team and not this halfway to Ikea nothing loser fest. Keep Torts, Trade Sedins. Fire torts and DON'T trade your top scorers for a dinosaur like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbox Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Peter Laviolette Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyfall Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 I have a feeling gulutzan was hired to be the contingency plan. He would look more like a hero if he took over directly after torts than AV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrChill Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 rather keep Torts and lose the softies, make this a Tortorella team and not this halfway to Ikea nothing loser fest. Keep Torts, Trade Sedins. Weirdly this post had nothing to do with your opinion on torts, it is a post on who is available to coach. Please start your own thread on this if you would like but stay out of this one unless you have something useful to say on the topic of this post, ie a name of a new coach. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfruits Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Weirdly this post had nothing to do with your opinion on torts, it is a post on who is available to coach. Please start your own thread on this if you would like but stay out of this one unless you have something useful to say on the topic of this post, ie a name of a new coach. Thanks take a chill pill just because you make a thread doesn't mean you get to dictate what is said and who posts in it so take the stick out of your rearend also how does that post not have to do with his/her opinion on Torts saying they want Torts to say sounds like they want Torts here and like what he is doing i also want Torts to stay and no i won't name a new coach because this team doesn't need one Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Merci Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 First 41 games of the season we were winning. How is this Torts' fault when his team has no depth and he's forced to play his 1st line to win? Kopitar Brown Carter Richards Gaborik How can Torts win with a 2nd line of Higgins and Hansen or Booth? Or even an ice cold Burrows. Smh @ nucks fans who think this is the coach and not just a lack of 1st round prospects that will all be replacing the Higgins/Booth/Burrows experiments very soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.Schneider Posted March 9, 2014 Author Share Posted March 9, 2014 Kesler, burrows and edler should have been included on that list. Hey, I'm just a really good couch GM who makes excellent NHL 14 trades. I don't have a crystal ball alright? ... although it seems I'm still more competent than MG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nino Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Hey, I'm just a really good couch GM who makes excellent NHL 14 trades. I don't have a crystal ball alright? ... although it seems I'm still more competent than MG A monkey could make better choices then MG. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giant Inflatable Beaver Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 This mess is not torts' fault. Give him another season with a much different looking team. Is it his fault Burrows cant score if his life depended on it? His fault that Henrik looks useless out there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zoolander Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 This is probably a pipe dream, but what about Dale Hunter of the London Knights? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
- PikaBOO - Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 I like Torts the best. But if he does get fired, I would love to see Ray Ferraro, even though I know it won't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hsedin33 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 I guess the question is, do you get a coach to coach the players you have, or get a coach and change the players you have? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
van_ws Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Torts can't score goals... where are the top players? When was the last time the Sedins scored a goal? When your top line hasn't scored in so many games, you are going to lose often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombastik der Teutone Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Uwe Krupp ..makes gold out of sh.. Formed a great German National Hockey Team out of Sh.. Formed a Championship Contending Team in Cologne out of Sh.. He knows the NHL ... So ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred65 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 I know according to some this board is alive with budding Einsteins and genius IQ. To say a monkey could do better makes makes a farce of visiting this site. Here's some information regarding Mike Gillis....not every ones idea of greatness but closer than most posters will ever achieve and I quote Found a few little things about MG I thought some might find kinda cool. Fist off, I know most of you already know he is also a lawyer. He received his law degree from Queens University and is among some pretty impressive Alumni * David Allgood (LL.B. 1974) -- Senior Vice President - Corporate Taxation, RBC * Michael Beatty (LL.B. 1994) -- CEO of Praetorian Trust Company * Christopher J. Pratt (LL.B. 1980) -- Founder of Vella & Pratt PC * Justice Harvey Brownstone (LL.B. 1980) -- Ontario Provincial Court Justice and author of "Tug of War" * Jock Climie (LL.B. 1998) -- Lawyer, former CFL player * Justice Thomas A. Cromwell (LL.B. 1976) -- Current Supreme Court of Canada Justice * Douglas Cunningham (LL.B. 1967) -- Lawyer and Ontario Superior Court Justice * Justice David Stratas (LL.B. 1984) -- Current Federal Court of Appeal Justice * Justice Nancy Flatters (LL.B. 1981) * Mike Gillis (LL.B. 1989) -- General Manager of the Vancouver Canucks * Yolande James (LL.B. 2003) -- First black Minister in the province of Quebec * David Lloyd Johnston (LL.B. 1966) -- President of the University of Waterloo [3] * Justice Jean MacFarland (LL.B. 1971) -- Court of Appeal for Ontario * John Sims (LL.B.) -- Deputy Attorney General for Canada * David Paul Smith (LL.B. 1970) -- Canadian Senator I didn't know this, but he also later taught sports law. In 2002 he wrote $39,450,000 (US) worth of NHL contracts alone and was considered to be one of the NHL's "super agents" . Instead of a lavish office, Gillis worked alone in the spare room of his family home at an antique wooden dinner table. His tools were basic: laptop, cellphone, office phone, fax machine. He had a rep as being an absolute Pit bull in the business world. "The agent business is full of guys with (guts)," says one high-ranking NHL management figure. "But Mike Gillis has the (most guts) of all." He once sued director of the NHLPA, player agent, lawyer and friend/advisor Alan Eagleson for trying to screw him out of $41,250. He won. It ended up costing Alan Eagleson $520,000 Don't mess with big Mike He Was finalist candidate for job as Atlanta Thrashers' first general manager, but lost out to Don Waddell in June 1998. He was a first round( 5th overall) draft pick, and played 246 NHL games with the Colorado Rockies and the Boston Bruins. On top of playing forward, he also played defense. Looks a little different without those bags under his eyes His little brother Paul Gillis played in the NHL as well. A second round (#34 overall) draft pick, he played 12 seasons and 624 games between the Quebec Nordiques, Chicago Blackhawks and Hartford Whalers. Just like Mike, he is still involved in hockey. He is currently Head Coach and director of hockey operations for the Odessa Jackalopes of the CHL. His wife (Diane Coffey) is a former a long-jumper at the University of Tennessee I really think we have a guy who understands not only the business from a gm standpoint, but from every angle possible. I really can't imagine finding a guy more talented for this position. Sports law expert, Super agent, and a former NHL player that played both forward and defense in the NHL. It doesn't get better in terms of experience. I really think given the fact he had excelled at everything he has done in life, he will bring us a cup. There is nothing about the world of professional hockey that Mike Gillis doesn't understand. Now over to you what exactly are your credentials. Gillis was a high lever 1st round pick in the NHL, studied law, taught sports law. A smart man that I believe is not a reactionary and thinks in terms of probably 5 years ahead. He has achieved during his time in Vcr more succeess tha ANY OTHER PREVIOUS GM. And some chicken brains want to fire him...it shows more about the quality of the posts on the forum than about MG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucklehead44 Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 I have a feeling gulutzan was hired to be the contingency plan. He would look more like a hero if he took over directly after torts than AV. I think Mike Sullivan might the back-up plan. After all he filled in for Torts during the suspension. Bruins placed second in the east his first year as head coach. Although last year with Dallas the team was decent in terms of goal production under Gulutzan. Torts has a pretty good resume, I don't know how much of this season can be blamed on him. Don't know why our top players are so crappy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollo Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Who coached team Sweden? is he available maybe even Crawford lol ... too bad Maurice and ruff are taken now. way to go aquaman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisbanks Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 crawford Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VIC_CITY Posted March 9, 2014 Share Posted March 9, 2014 Your mom.....ZIIIIIING! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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