Do you guys really think they fired the wrong man? There were SO many reasons Renney needed to be fired.
1. He never kept a line together for a single game other than the 4th line. There were many games where he tried 15 DIFFERENT LINE COMBINATIONS IN THE LAST 10 MINUTES OF THE 3RD PERIOD. He wondered why there was no chemistry. Tons of too many men on the ice penalties. They had 2 games where they had 2 too many men on the ice penalties because nobody knew who the hell they were playing with. 2. NEVER held a single player accountable. Drury , Gomez, Reddon, just to name a few, were not willing to skate, take a hit, give a hit, make a crisp pass or shoot, yet they got tons of ice time. 3. He convinced himself and the rest of the team that they were a low-scoring team. So they got Drury Gomez and Naslund to be a low scoring team. That makes a lot of sense. 4. He refused to make changes even though his system was not working. 5. Powerless Play - 14 shorthanded goals against. Never shot and NEVER got anyone in front of the net. 6. Never showed any fire and seemed to always be satisfied as long as they outshot the opposition even though all their shots were from the outside. I can give you 10 more reasons but I won't. Don't get me wrong, Renney did get them into the playoffs the last 3 seasons after missing 7 straight, but they were not going to make it this year with him behind the bench and that is completely unacceptable. Yes, Sather needs to go for many reasons, especially the Reddon deal, but now I think he finally realizes that his ass may be on the line. If he didn't realize that he would have never hired Tortorella who is the furthest thing from the "Yes Men" that Sather has always surrounds himself with. I think the hiring of John Tortorella is the best thing that could have happened. Do they really have no talent?... ....Gomez, Drury, Naslund, Zherdev, Dubinsky, Callahan Give me a break. There are coaches out there that would kill to coach these guys. Yes, the defense is lacking but that will be fixed with Sanguinetti and Potter. I'm sure Kalinin will be one of the first to be a victim of Tort's wrath. Rangers will make the playoffs. I'm not expecting them to win the conference or anything crazy like that, but Tortorella is going to get this team in the right direction. -Pantino > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:29:29 -0500 > Subject: [BKHockey] Re: pantino, what took them so long? > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > > > I agree 100% > > ~alex > > > On 2/23/09 1:56 PM, "Alex Veselov" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > They fired the wrong man! Sather should have been gone long time ago. The > > team > > is a mess, with high payroll and not a lot of talent to trade...Pity!!!! > > > > Alex Veselov > > > > > > --- On Mon, 2/23/09, David Larabell <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> From: David Larabell <[email protected]> > >> Subject: [BKHockey] pantino, what took them so long? > >> To: "hockey" <[email protected]> > >> Date: Monday, February 23, 2009, 1:38 PM > >> hasta luego tom renney: > >> http://sports.espn.go.com/nhl/news/story?id=3928145 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live™: Discover 10 secrets about the new Windows Live. http://windowslive.com/connect/post/jamiethomson.spaces.live.com-Blog-cns!550F681DAD532637!7540.entry?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_t2_ugc_post_022009 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BKHockey" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/bkhockey?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
