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So according to Stauffer MacT is the person most responsible for Horcoff's contract because he put him in a position to succeed.

Bob Stauffer, ladies and gentlemen. The Edmonton media will do everything and anything to not blame the existing management structure for mistakes. How they sleep at night without the demons of dishonesty haunting their every moment is beyond me.

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i mean really, how dare MacT put non-superstar players in a position to succeed.

by Bananahammer on Jan 27, 2012 4:44 PM MST reply actions  

From a certain perspective, I can see that statement being true: MacT did, in fact, put Horcoff in a position to succeed by putting him out against lesser competition and more O-zone faceoffs (relatively speaking: Stoll and Reasoner were sub-40% O-starts, while Horcoff was around 46%). But he couldn’t have done it without the horses to run out against the best.

But isn’t it then incumbent upon the manager to either a) recognize the aberration for what it is (easier minutes plus shooting percentage) and offer less/walk, or b) enable the coach to continue to put him in a position to put up 70+ points per year (retain Reasoner/Brodziak, replace Stoll)?

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by Doogie2K on Jan 27, 2012 4:46 PM MST reply actions  

Responses:
a) yes
b) yes

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by ryanbatty on Jan 27, 2012 4:57 PM MST up reply actions  

Yeah, contracts are a result of coaching and not the GM who is “negotiating” (or whatever Lowe calls giving contracts this inflated). I guess the Khabibulin contract is the fault of Quenneville in Chicago for playing him so much in the playoffs in the year before.

by Oiltank on Jan 27, 2012 4:56 PM MST via mobile reply actions  

By this logic Renney is doing a bang up job by playing Paajarvi with plugs and keeping the value of his second contract down. Keep up the good work.

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by ryanbatty on Jan 27, 2012 4:58 PM MST reply actions  

bread is only buttered on one side you know
The Edmonton media will do everything and anything to not blame the existing management structure for mistakes.

At one point I was listening to Stauffer every damn day.
[I know, I’m a fool]

He ragged on Mactavish every day, every damn day.
He never criticized Lowe by name once.

by Mr DeBakey on Jan 27, 2012 8:11 PM MST reply actions  

Having a better centre in the lineup would have prevented that…

Whose job is that again?

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by dawgbone98 on Jan 29, 2012 9:09 PM MST reply actions  

Amateur Scouting

The Edmonton Oilers – Rebuilding through character assassination since 1998

by Joe Girth on Jan 30, 2012 8:35 AM MST up reply actions   1 recs

There’s also pro scouting and the GM as well.

In theory, there is little difference between practice and theory, but in practice there is!

Tactical contributor to the Copper & Blue and just as boring on the twitters... @dawgbone98

by dawgbone98 on Jan 30, 2012 10:45 AM MST up reply actions  

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