Post by The_DirtyBird on May 3, 2010 20:33:49 GMT -5
I posted this thread last season and it was actually very good discussion. This year is a little different. Drulia's contract is up after this season. He signed a 2 year deal after the 07-08 season. So do you retain Drulia after this season?
This is of course barring we even have the team back or we don't go to a different league.
Pros of Stan: Your going to have a solid team on the ice. Every team he has coached has made it in the playoffs. Your going to see some solid players. He really knows how to build a team around McMorran Arena.
Cons: Some question his coaching skill. His teams didnt make it out of the first round the past years. He usually has a extremely boring team on the ice for the most part. Not alot of hitting or fighting from his teams. But I think the thing that sunk his battle ship this year was the thing that was keeping his job the past 2 years and that was the GM part of his job. Its still debatable if he knew or didn't know Adam Russo was going to leave before the playoffs, I haven't heard the real story behind it and god knows who he tried to contact and was denied by to replace him but there had to be someone out there anyone who could of came in with actually pro experience. Instead he signs D'Orso who had cruddy numbers as a junior in the first place, only gives him one game instead of 2 at the end of the season in games that didnt matter for us. Then pretty much assumed Sterling was going to stay healthy in the playoffs and if not just because D'Orso shut down a team that was going down no matter who was in goal, that we would be ok if Sterling did go down. Well Sterling goes down after leading us to a 3-1 lead in the series and now we are about 15 minutes away from choking it away again. You can't blame the kid he should in no way be thrown into this situation of starting 2 games in the playoffs in Fort Wayne, thats ridiculous. I wanna know how he couldnt go out and find a goalie maybe that isn't great but had pro experience. Flint did it with zygien or whatever the hell his name is.
I mean is it all over for the Drulia era in Port Huron or not what do you guys think?
We are just going to assume the team is coming back next season. Nobody really knows for sure right now and there is nothing we can do to dictate it. Right now season tix are on sale for next season so something must be up. Kinney doesn't seem like a dummy. So lets just play this as the IHL icehawks will be back next year.
This is of course barring we even have the team back or we don't go to a different league.
Pros of Stan: Your going to have a solid team on the ice. Every team he has coached has made it in the playoffs. Your going to see some solid players. He really knows how to build a team around McMorran Arena.
Cons: Some question his coaching skill. His teams didnt make it out of the first round the past years. He usually has a extremely boring team on the ice for the most part. Not alot of hitting or fighting from his teams. But I think the thing that sunk his battle ship this year was the thing that was keeping his job the past 2 years and that was the GM part of his job. Its still debatable if he knew or didn't know Adam Russo was going to leave before the playoffs, I haven't heard the real story behind it and god knows who he tried to contact and was denied by to replace him but there had to be someone out there anyone who could of came in with actually pro experience. Instead he signs D'Orso who had cruddy numbers as a junior in the first place, only gives him one game instead of 2 at the end of the season in games that didnt matter for us. Then pretty much assumed Sterling was going to stay healthy in the playoffs and if not just because D'Orso shut down a team that was going down no matter who was in goal, that we would be ok if Sterling did go down. Well Sterling goes down after leading us to a 3-1 lead in the series and now we are about 15 minutes away from choking it away again. You can't blame the kid he should in no way be thrown into this situation of starting 2 games in the playoffs in Fort Wayne, thats ridiculous. I wanna know how he couldnt go out and find a goalie maybe that isn't great but had pro experience. Flint did it with zygien or whatever the hell his name is.
I mean is it all over for the Drulia era in Port Huron or not what do you guys think?
We are just going to assume the team is coming back next season. Nobody really knows for sure right now and there is nothing we can do to dictate it. Right now season tix are on sale for next season so something must be up. Kinney doesn't seem like a dummy. So lets just play this as the IHL icehawks will be back next year.