Apparently...this is what we paid this guy $3 mil for...let's see if McPhee knows what he's doing...
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George McPhee....The Teflon GM. 15 years of failure and counting....
6 - Number of playoff series the Capitals have won since George McPhee took over as General Manager in 1997 (which makes him the third-longest-tenured GM in the League), three of which came in McPhee's first season on the job.
Boston yes.
Pittsburgh doesn't have a rock #1 dman.
Nashville doesn't have good center depth.
San Jose doesn't have a rock #1 dman or a good goalie.
Ottawa doesn't have any of the 3.
1.)Letang? Orpick? Both are pretty solid 1/2 guys.
2.) Fischer, Legwand, Gaustad, Colin Wilson? Seems like a pretty decent middle to me. Not Crosby, Malkin, Staal, etc by any means, but still solid.
3.) Dan Boyle? Niemi isn't that bad.
4.) Yeah, nevermind about Ottawa. I got carried away.
1.)Letang? Orpick? Both are pretty solid 1/2 guys.
2.) Fischer, Legwand, Gaustad, Colin Wilson? Seems like a pretty decent middle to me. Not Crosby, Malkin, Staal, etc by any means, but still solid.
3.) Dan Boyle? Niemi isn't that bad.
4.) Yeah, nevermind about Ottawa. I got carried away.
1.) Neither is a rock #1
2.) No #1C
3.) Neither is close to a rock #1
4.) Agreed.
McPhee was, too. Boudreau had some good teams and was badly outcoached. McPhee had years to trade some nuts and didn't.
Hunter may not be good enough. But he has done all a man can with a team like this. Are some here under the impression this is good personnel?
But this is not the time for negativity.
This is where you lose most intelligent, business saavy people. In terms of winning the Stanley Cup, you may be correct, but that's not the only thing that determines a successful career.
McPhee was, too. Boudreau had some good teams and was badly outcoached. McPhee had years to trade some nuts and didn't.
Hunter may not be good enough. But he has done all a man can with a team like this. Are some here under the impression this is good personnel?
But this is not the time for negativity.
So Boudreau wins damn near two Presidents trophies and Hunter gets us crawling into the playoffs as a ****ing 7th seed with what is basically an upgraded version of Bruce's teams and BB is the failure?
This is where you lose most intelligent, business saavy people. In terms of winning the Stanley Cup, you may be correct, but that's not the only thing that determines a successful career.
i am pretty sure that not winning a cup with shoane morrisonn on your first d pair is a sure sign of abject/total failure.
btw....glen hanlon was total failure when it came time to win. bruce boudreau qualified a team for the playoffs that was last in the conference at thanksgiving. that had never been done before. the next season his team was 2nd in the east and the next two 1st in the east. the last first was with three rookie goalies, two rookie d as his shutdown pair and two rookie centers.
i am pretty sure that not winning a cup with shoane morrisonn on your first d pair is a sure sign of abject/total failure.
btw....glen hanlon was total failure when it came time to win. bruce boudreau qualified a team for the playoffs that was last in the conference at thanksgiving. that had never been done before. the next season his team was 2nd in the east and the next two 1st in the east. the last first was with three rookie goalies, two rookie d as his shutdown pair and two rookie centers.
i dont see how any of that is total failure.
People will see things the way they want them to look.
Protect the kid in net. Play solid D, block shots and don't make any dumb mistakes. Holtby will be up to the task in net. I've got a good feeling about Holtby.
Posted this on the main board. 11-1 with young guns in the lineup, outscoring opponents 46-24, inuding games against PHI, NYR, PIT, DET, NJD, OTT, FLA x2 (all playoff teams).
I really feel like this team can do some damage. Remins me of Philly vs NJD in 2010. Philly beats NYR in last game to make the playoffs, and get the 7th seed (just like us). NJ thought they were going far with Kovalchuk (just like Boston since they won last year). But Philly played like the team it was supposed to be finally (just like us as we've had many key injuries) and beat NJ on it's way to the SCF.
Can't wait for tonight, so excited!
love the optimism but the way i see it, even if the forwards create some offense, that defense is just
even if carlzner does well (which im far from confident of), i think green's softness is gonna be a killer given how much the caps are forced to play in their own end, and wideman-schultz is unthinkable.
I hated that man and what he turned out team into. Because he was able to ride the coattails of a veteran-heavy team to our first SCF in 98, he stuck around far longer than he ever should have. I remember some of the arguments that fans of old school grind/hit/fight hockey would get into with some of those Wilson apologists. They thought that fans like me were ridiculous in our assessment of Wilson as an anti-fighting and skill-focused coach who dulled the edge of a team that did have some guys that played really physical when left to their own devices(Simon and Witt especially).
I loved Brian Burke's comments about Wilson after he fired him recently. They pretty much confirmed what I've been saying about Wilson for the last decade.
