Lemaire Finds Sour Grapes

Tonight, Russo posted this tasty treat.

What do we want to change? How about for our coach to understand the game as it is played today, and not the way it was played in 1962. What do we want to change? How about a coach who allows players drafted for their offensive ability to be allowed to use some of it, instead of being converted into checking line forwards. What do we want to change? How about allowing the center to make a play from now on. To use your own words coach, "95 percent" of the NHL allows their centers to play the position of, wait for it, CENTER.Rather than being a third man back the entire game, how about allowing the center to roam and make a play?

The defensive corps will be required to make offensive plays. Ala Detroit, Pittsburgh, San Jose, and the rest of the top tier of the league. They will be allowed to take a risk, knowing that the ENTIRE team is required to back check instead of just the center and d-men.

I will not for one second tell you that other teams don't play a trap. They do. But somehow they find a way to do so without putting their fans to sleep.

Good thing you don't have to coach. We do. And we are. Again, no one has said even one time that they plan to play only offense. Watch the pressers will ya coach? Read the newspapers, watch the press conferences, read the internet before you make such a ignorant comment.

You are right coach, the new guy can't come in and say we are going to do the same thing. The do have to say they will bring something new to the fans. This would be something you know nothing about. "New" is a word that scares the living bejesus out of you Mr. Lemaire, now isn't it? Hopefully New Jersey doesn't bring in any rookies or you may have to actually coach them instead of just screaming at them.

Remember in my last post when I mentioned I was fiercely loyal? Well, I am. I also am the type of hockey fan that doesn't take kindly to former players and coaches bad mouthing the new players and coaches. I am the type of guy that says hockey people should take the high road. When asked about the new Wild system, could Mr. Lemaire have not said "I'm not the coach there anymore, I wish them and their fans the best?"

Coach Lemaire just fell down about seventeen pegs in my book. I thanked him for his work when he left. I will not rescind that thanks. He did a wonderful job with little help from above. However, these little digs at the new system bug me. They are low brow and unnecessary.

Take your sour grapes somewhere else coach. We don't drink much wine here in Minnesota, though we do make some fine cheese to go with yours. Until you prove that your defense only system works, you can take your comments about offense based systems and shove them in your breezers.

Thanks for your work while you were here, coach. Now go away.

-Buddha