Ok… Are Wayne and Co slicker than snake snot or crazy as bat shit?

Seriously… if you listened to the game last night you know whereof I speak. The first couple of games were a nice mix of vets and youth… very young goalies though, so expectations weren’t too high. We did okay… nothing spectacular, Bodz, KT, Ports and Ahne all had pretty decent runs once the jitters wore off. So we sent some kidz home to the minors (where they can develop at a nice pace, hurry back Brodie you did quite well ) and that Monty gave a us a wee taste of why GMDM is so crushing on him.

But last night’s game against the Flambe must have been the sorriest roster I have seen in a looong time. Seriously… horrible.

13 L DANIEL CARCILLO
14 C CHAD KOLARIK
15 C MICHAEL ZIGOMANIS (A)
16 R BRIAN MCGRATTAN
18 R ENVER LISIN
21 D DAVID HALE (A)
23 C KEVIN PORTER
24 D JONAS AHNELOV
36 D LOGAN STEPHENSON
39 C GARTH MURRAY
41 R VIKTOR TIKHONOV
44 D KURT SAUER (A)
56 D DREW FATA
59 R JEFF HOGGAN
62 R DAVE SPINA
73 R STEVEN GOERTZEN
75 D ED STONE
85 R ALEX BOURRET
32 G MIKAEL TELLQVIST
35 G AL MONTOYA

VS

4 D JAMES VANDERMEER
6 D CORY SARICH
7 R TODD BERTUZZI (A)
8 D ANDERS ERIKSSON
12 R JAROME IGINLA (C)
13 L MIKE CAMMALLERI
18 C MATTHEW LOMBARDI
20 L CURTIS GLENCROSS
23 L ERIC NYSTROM
27 R ANDRE ROY
28 D ROBYN REGEHR (A)
33 D ADRIAN AUCOIN
42 L BRETT SUTTER
60 C MIKAEL BACKLUND
61 D JOHN NEGRIN
62 R KRIS CHUCKO
63 C WARREN PETERS
75 C JOHN ARMSTRONG
1 G CURTIS MCELHINNEY
34 G MIIKKA KIPRUSOFF

When DHL is your point on the PP? C’mon you know thats a bad roster, the poor guy hasn’t gotten a goal in 215+ games? on your PP point? Hale on the PP aside, the only thing last night’s roster had goin for it was Telly and try though he might he had no help in front of the net most of the game.

So with a roster that smelled to high heaven and still managed to hang with the Flamers (of which I am very proud they did not get completely slaughtered… w/ Kipper in net for most of the game) is Wayne a genius for never quite showing our full hand? Hell I been watchin these boys for the last 5 weeks in various formats and I’m still not quite sure what exactly we have goin for us. So good luck to anyone scouting us.

Or has TGO lost his everloving mind? I’ve heard of getting your feet wet approach, but it never involved throwing of the entire body of a novice swimmer into the deep end and expecting Michael Phelps to emerge.

I’m torn… well I wasn’t last night when I was yelling at the online feed, Fools! charlatans! crazy summabitches what are you doing? But now that my adrenalin and blood pressure have both lowered a bit… I have to wonder.

Kudos: Lisin w/ 2 goals (and almost had the hattie), Tiki w/ the face saving goal last night, Porter for a very poised couple of games, Monty for a couple of very decent performances, KT and Bodz for holdin their own and then some. Keefe vs Ivanans? speaks for itself that he not only survived but came back into the game to harrass the big enforcer again. Ahne, lookin good back there.

Razzberries: Tordjy… dude just brutal. Jones/Yandle combo on the blueline…should never even be thought of by any rational human being. Rossi… get some intensity… steal it if you have to.

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