[NYI Fan Central]

It was very funny reading in Newsday about the Isles copying Chicago's plan. I guess winning or ignorance is bliss. Maybe Wang needs an ESPN zone to sell the product like Chicago has now.

Does this mean Scott Gordon can be fired like Savard after four games next season, or Garth Snow is fired in a year because somewhere an Islander alumni aka Scotty Bowman's kid Stan took over operations and hired his father so Dale Tallon had to go and it's no big deal?

Does this also mean when Garth Snow or the next gm forgets to file contracts properly for Bailey, Okposo and Tavares (like the Hawks did with their three young players) forcing them to spend much more money to keep them earlier no one is going to notice?

I guess this also means the Isles can sign another Yashin contract and give someone a Marian Hossa like a twelve year, front-loaded contract while he was too hurt to play or give out an absurd contract like Huet received combined with someone else getting a Duncan Keith thirteen year deal?

I suppose Snow or his successor can do a Brian Campbell like signing and give a player who's a poor defender $7.14 million annually through the 2015-16 season.

Scary how many mistakes the Hawks can make and still be packaged and sold as some kind of great rebuilding job after a decade of brutal hockey.

Same kind of stuff you read about Pittsburgh doing it right as they signed a team of UFA for Mario and Crosby coming out of the lockout that was so painfully bad LeClaire, Recchi, Palffy aand Mario Lemieux were gone, Crosby finished up his rookie year with.......

former Islander Andy Hilbert.

Craig Patrick lost his job after that season.

I guess all that some notice is when you have a winning record, nothing matters or is remembered about how a team really gets there but some suggest that's how other teams should do things?

This point has been edited by NYI Fan Central: 16 March 2010 - 05:05 AM

[Chris TMC]

NYI Fan Central, on Mar 16 2010, 05:25 AM, said:

Does this mean Scott Gordon can be fired like Savard after four games next season, or Garth Snow is fired in a year because somewhere an Islander alumni aka Scotty Bowman's kid Stan took over operations and hired his father so Dale Tallon had to go and it's no big deal?

Does this also mean when Garth Snow or the next gm forgets to file contracts properly for Bailey, Okposo and Tavares (like the Hawks did with their three young players) forcing them to spend much more money to keep them earlier no one is going to notice?

I guess this also means the Isles can sign another Yashin contract and give someone a Marian Hossa like a twelve year, front-loaded contract while he was too hurt to play or give out an absurd contract like Huet received combined with someone else getting a Duncan Keith thirteen year deal?

I suppose Snow or his successor can do a Brian Campbell like signing and give a player who's a poor defender $7.14 million annually through the 2015-16 season.

Scary how many mistakes the Hawks can make and still be packaged and sold as some kind of great rebuilding job after a decade of brutal hockey.

LMAO!!! Its SO true, NYIFC. If Garth did the exacct same things- and I mean exactly- there would be people calling to hang him from a tree in Eisenhower Park. I think it is just what you said there at the end. History is written by the victors. Since Chicago is quite good now, people will rationalize every failure and error they made as a means to an end.