 | Trade Rumors: Changes coming after trouncing in San Jose |
John Down
Jed Ortmeyer got his first goal in 28 games, Scott Nichol his first in 27, Rob Blake his first in 17, Manny Malhotra in 12 . . .
And on it went for the San Jose Sharks on Monday night as they fattened up on the Calgary Flames while setting a franchise record of having eight different players score during that 9-1 victory.
This was the sort of breakout game the Flames had hoped for, a game where players like Nigel Dawes, Eric Nystrom, Jarome Iginla and Daymond Langkow would break out of prolonged goal-scoring slumps.
No one could have seen this thrashing coming. No one. It’s not like the Flames had been kicked around in their previous four losses. Far from it, in fact. Outside of last week’s game against Nashville, they’d outplayed Pittsburgh and Colorado but ran into hot goaltenders.
Sunday at Anaheim, they’d scored four goals and unleashed 19 shots in the third period to reluctantly bow to the Anaheim Ducks.
But Monday. Wow. What a dud of a performance against one of the top teams in the league, against a team they’ve actually enjoyed some success against.
You can’t say they didn’t quit because that wouldn’t be fair. But they certainly do much right, either. Outside of a couple of early power-plays in the second period, they offered up very little offensively and simply fell apart defensively when the Sharks broke out.
The performance left coach Brent Sutter stuck for a description of what had transpired. He’s used the words casual, failure to engage and disappointing among others following certain losses this season but he was tongue-tied after this one.
He’d start a sentence, pause . . . start another sentence, pause . . .
He did get some things out but he really seemed to be dumfounded that his team could throw such a stinker and was truly stuck for an explanation.
It wasn’t just one player, it was an entire team.
Some sort of change is coming, of that you can be sure. In fact, you have to wonder if one or two players haven’t played their way onto the trade winds.
http://communities.canada.com/calgaryherald/blogs/insideflames/archive/2010/01/19/changes-coming-after-trouncing-in-san-jose.aspx
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Re: Changes coming after trouncing in San Jose (Score: 1)
by reinjosh on Wednesday, January 20
(User Info | Send a Message) | i am almost completely for moving Phaneuf now
i wonder what sutter has up his sleeves
please say he wont sit still |
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Re: Changes coming after trouncing in San Jose (Score: 1)
by pezzz123 on Wednesday, January 20
(User Info | Send a Message) | The more I'm thinking about it, the more I'm against moving Phaneuf. Moving forward, HE will be the core of this team. Not Iginla, not Regehr, not Kiprusoff. This team's gonna be Phaneuf', Bouwmeester', Giordano' and Bourque. Give them the lockeroom. Get the old leadership out. Bring the new one in.
Here's my plan (for this summer) :
Trade Iginla and Sarich to Florida for Horton, Stillman, Ellerby and a 1rst rounder.
Trade Regehr to Washington for a 1rst rounder.
Trade Kiprusoff, Boyd and a 2nd rounder to Nashville for Suter, Erat and the rights to Rinne.
Resign Jokinen, 2 years, 7.5 million.
Resign Bourque, 4 years, 16 million.
Resign Rinne, 2 years, 6 million
Resign Nystrom, 3 years, 3.75 million
Resign Prust, 2 years, 1.6 million
Resign Johnson, 2 years, 1.5 million
Sign a 6th d-man (Brian Pothier, for example), for 2 years at 1 or 2 million per year.
Dump McElhinney for whatever you can get. Same for Dawes.
Let Conroy (probably retirement), McGrattan and Lundmark (unfortunatly) go.
Split the net between Rinne and Irving.
Stillman - Jokinen - Horton
Erat - Langkow - Bourque
Glencross - Backlund - Moss
Nystrom - Prust - Sjostrom
Armstrong
Bouwmeester - Giordano
Phaneuf - Suter
Pardy - Pothier
Johnson
Rinne
Irving |
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Re: Changes coming after trouncing in San Jose (Score: 1)
by FlamingHomer on Thursday, January 21
(User Info | Send a Message) | Trading this guy for that guy isn't going to make up the 8 goal differential from the Sharks game. The problem is the structure of the team. There is too much invested in the defense and not enough at forward. The most effective blueliner so far this year has been $900,000 Mark Giordano. We need 6 of him and put the rest of the money towards some scoring. Darryl Sutter has put together a very imbalanced team.
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