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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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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a) yes
b) yes
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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.
Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact.
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bread is only buttered on one side you know
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.
Having a better centre in the lineup would have prevented that…
Whose job is that again?
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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.
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