You're Fired
by CTGray on May 25, 2009 12:48 PM PDT
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We had this discussion at dinner on Friday. If you had to axe one Shark from the team, who would it be? Base it on your personal feelings, base it on play, base it on the earth being in the 3rd house, the whims of the FSM, whatever. You have the power to get rid of ONE player.
I'd ditch Lemieux. His comeback story is a great one, and I admire his determination and perseverance to make a comeback attempt after 5 years of retirement. While he adds a veteran presence to the locker room, he doesn't add much else. As we saw this season, he's not that much of a fighter, he's not the checking beast he once was, and he's not the fastest skater or most accurate shot. He gave the crowd a boost, and he may well have been a large boost in the locker room, but he was injured for most of the season and it felt like he was taking up space that could have been better filled by a Wor-Shark.
Where he goes if I as acting DW gives him the axe is unknown. He's past his prime, and I'm not sure what he could add. Perhaps he'd be a boon to team like Tampa or Phoenix. Perhaps not.
My guess is, once he's out, he's out.
Nothing personal against Pepe, just how it is.
Now it's your turn. Who would you give the axe to and why?
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Vince McMahon said it better than Donald Trump. That’s all I’m saying.
The Ultimate Opportunist
by Rated-R Superstar on May 25, 2009 12:52 PM PDT reply actions
I'll give you that
but I knew an image of Trump doing the whip snake hand action would be readily available. So I chose the easy way out.
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Who would I fire?
Hmm.
I think at dinner I said Grier. I’ve had some time to reflect upon my decision, and I have decided that I would like to keep him around, but not at the expense of a WorShark who is working harder.
So If a WorShark can’t replace him, then re-sign him. Otherwise?
Who knows? I am a firm believer in the saying: “You can’t step in the same river twice” So who’s to say that he doesnt get re-signed and have a beast of a year. 15 goals, all empty netters. You just never know.
"iaT"S FUCKINGE LIEK CONICO DO MAYO!!!!!111"
Mr. K. 5/5/2009
go with your gut, Morti!
you’re also welcome to throw out all reason and pull a name out of a hat.
It might be interesting to see what justification we can give to losing (insert random player name here) Everyone’s head is on the chopping block. Hell, you can axe DW if you want, even though he’s no longer a player.
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I say Nabby
And I won’t justify that at all. Ok maybe I will.
High Salary, Diminishing Skill.
Dej mi Halak nebo dej mi smrti! Nebo, jen dej mi Halak. Nejsou zamordovati mi.
(That’s in my White Whale’s native tounge. You can decode, if you feel like it.)
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Don’t kill me. Damn you free translator.
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by Matthew_Taylor on May 25, 2009 1:09 PM PDT up reply actions
I can already see the headlines...
HALAK ATTACK!
"iaT"S FUCKINGE LIEK CONICO DO MAYO!!!!!111"
Mr. K. 5/5/2009
Ooooo
Fancy script….
(wish my grandparents were taught Czech in order to pass it on…)
Fear The Fin = We're not as think as you drunk we are.
Halak was all I needed to see
to get the gist of those statements. And I don’t speak Czech.
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having a great goaltender on your team doesn't guarantee success by any means,
lets just look at Ward in this carolina pittsburgh series and what happened to vancoucer when they faced off against chicago. A good team makes a bad goalie look good and a bad team makes a good goalie look bad.
I don't like you Detroit.
My maroo I go away this weekend and the Fanpost section blows up.
Who would I like to fire? Nabokov would be fun as hell, because he’d totally deflect the blame and say that I should have fired more people before him (weak reference to his postgame comments always being along the lines of “we should have scored more goals”).
If Pepe returns next season I’ll eat a turd and post the video on Youtube.
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If Pepe returns next season I’ll eat a turd and post the video on Youtube.
Solid.
I await your youtube vid, should this happen.
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I almost want him to come back now.
It takes a big man to cry and it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man. -Jamie Baker
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oer sometoethin lie kthat!!!! -Mr. K
by Lurker Shark on May 25, 2009 8:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Just to add a clause- he has to play for the San Jose Sharks from game one. Any of this China Sharks business and I’m leaving the turd in the front yard where it belongs.
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darn
loophole closed.
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As well as the poophole.
Okay, that was uncalled for.
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bwahahahahaha
that sounds more like a personal problem, Plank. They probably make an ointment for that.
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Huskins and Lemieux are too easy...
I was going to say Nabby, and he’d be my first choice. But since he’s already been discussed in this thread, albeit briefly, I’d say cheechoo. I’m just not sure he fits in with McLellan’s speed game. There was a reason he spent most of the season on the 3rd line. I just think we could find someone better suited to our third line roll than him.
Also, saying cheechoo is a good way to rile people up…since he’s high on the fan favorite list! :)
Sometimes the impossible can become possible if you're AWESOME!
"a good way to rile people up"
Haha, “rile” is such a fun word. Love that stuff.
I think most of us here have advocated a Cheechoo trade at the draft over the course of the year. He’s still a good player and can possibly return some “stocking the cupboard” prospects, as well as freeing up some cap space down the road for resigning Gooch and Pavelski (who will be free agents one year from now). That’s the future of your franchise right there. Just for the sake of quoting some older stuff:
This season is probably the siren song for a few notable players, and their names have been chronicled extensively both in the posts, comments, and radio. Looking at both the defense and forwards signed going forward, it stands to reason that Cheechoo will be gone at draft day and Ehrhoff might be on the move as well.
The only problem I have with moving Ehrhoff is his upside. The constant lapses in judgement in the defensive zone and attempts to stickhandle through the nuetral zone get tiresome, but there was a stretch during the middle of this season where he was brilliant. The upcoming playoffs will likely determine his future with the team, and I’m hoping he proves to all of us that he can be consistent from big game to big game (which applies to the whole team, but I digress). If he turns it on I would be content with letting Blake walk- both to save salary space, and for the future of the organization.
-Older shit
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joe thornton, I don’t see any point in “firing” role players, because it isn’t as fun as making big, ridiculous, decisions. Of the “big three,” he’s the one I’d prefer to see go.
Can you imagine?
what free agents we could sign if Nabby, Cheech, and Ehrhoff were all traded??
Holy Cow.
by SanJoseLandShark on May 25, 2009 8:12 PM PDT reply actions
probably still nobody unfortunately
free agents don’t like to come here
by a10dency2ask on May 26, 2009 10:06 AM PDT up reply actions
Ugh – this is hard. I’m trying to remember who I said the other night…I think it was Nabby. But before I fired him I would like to sit him down and figure out what happened (was it an injury? Missing Strelow? Someone punched his puppy?) and see if it was something that can be fixed. If not, than it has to be Nabby. If he’s willing to work on his issues, then I’d vote for Ehrhoff. There’s just something about him that I don’t like…
you need to do you part to support the pointy faced minority. ;)
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I support the pointy faced minority.
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by Matthew_Taylor on May 25, 2009 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
I can't remember who you picked
But I remember wanting to get out of your way for picking Grier to go!
"iaT"S FUCKINGE LIEK CONICO DO MAYO!!!!!111"
Mr. K. 5/5/2009
haha
If you support Grier with me, I’ll totally root for all the British players in the NHL. Let’s see there’s….ummmm….
Byron Dafoe!
Not currently active, but probably our best British talent
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Dafoe
(Even if he moved to Canada when he was 2)
"iaT"S FUCKINGE LIEK CONICO DO MAYO!!!!!111"
Mr. K. 5/5/2009
Fire Roy Sommers!
He’s the coach for Worcester. While he adequately implements the system the big club is using, he kind of has a “don’t care” attitude towards winning, which doesn’t exactly reflect well on the players. He also gets a lot of bench minors for too many men, which isn’t good.
And since Sommers isn’t a player, um, fire Plihal! Just because it would make my friend happy. I really don’t think any of the players deserve to be “fired,” just traded or not re-signed. Like Grier.
"I think I realized after the second or third punch, I should have taken his helmet off sooner." - Ryane Clowe
Fools and Sages
Oh how far I've come...........
Wasn’t it just four days ago that I wrote my long explaination of who I was and why I loved Hockey………..and the Sharks. I said I wanted them all back and now i’m throwing a bunch of names out to the firing squad.
I think I want one more try with this squad. Who’s with me? I mean look at how we all felt at the beginning of April. We were pretty confident with this team. One more year with this same squad will get us past all of these salary cap problems anyways………Wouldn’t we rather have another possible 50 win season with the expectation of an early playoff exit? Wouldnt it be awesome to prove everyone wrong beating Calgary, Aneheim, and Detroit along the way…………….it would be quite redsoxesque………..maybe Jimmy Fallon would come shoot a sappy romantic comedy while we’re doing it.
Hey mymclife……….you didnt answer the question I proposed to you on F&S. All you gotta do is say NO!
:)
by SanJoseLandShark on May 25, 2009 10:10 PM PDT up reply actions
well, sure
but that’s nowhere near as fun as tossing reality out the window. ;)
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maybe Jimmy Fallon would come shoot a sappy romantic comedy while we’re doing it.
That movie was based off a very stellar book (and screenplay) by Nick Hornby. He completely butchered it, watered it down, and ruined my life. I will forever hate Jimmy Fallon for this.
Also, he giggles when he tells jokes.
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The man couldn’t keep a straight face if you ironed it.
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I think we haven't looked at the true reason of our curse.
And that is SJ Sharkie. He needs some cosmetic surgery or begone with him! HE AINT DAMN MEAN ENOUGH COME PLAYOFF TIME! If he is not making children cry by the second round, he is doing it wrong.
"I suddenly hate Canada with a passion = BASTARDS!!!!!! " -Mr K, Upon hearing Moyes filing Chapter 11
Mike Grier is gone!
I say Grier is fired, but that’s a given. In the playoffs he played as if he were trying to tell DW “I don’t wanna play here next year.”
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