HardCoreBlue

Thanks for planting that seed.

AND all time best QB football IQ imo.

If it’s even being considered what’s the plan if no Helle? Is our goalie pipeline good enough? Take from Peter to pay Paul is what I would be concerned about if we put Helle on the market just looking at it purely from a hockey talent point of view.

Oh good gawd yes please football gods please.

Okay need to modify my ongoing mantra for this team. I'll tweak 'Next year is our year' to 'Not next year or the year after that but the year after that (maybe) is our year'.

Imagine taking this approach in an office job. Hey outside of work I'm the nicest guy you'll ever meet but put me on the office floor and I'm a dickhead, completely different person. lol

This one confuses me. Why wasn't Benn e-transferred $2,604.17 for doing us all a favor. Weird. What a topsy turvy world we live in.

I'm sorry but we're going to have to let you go.

This change in playoff format just reminds me again how I wish there were more teams in this league. Sigh. Like some others have stated, I'm not sure what problem is trying to be solved here. $$? You would think it will change the approach teams take with their starting roster as the playoffs draw closer. What it doesn't change is Riders suck.

That’s too bad, BT no goals no wins no more playoffs. Shucks.

Great gig if you can get it.

Chevy's mantra anytime the critical light is shone on him.

Your last sentence summarizes Chevy’s approach with the public perfectly. I love how some people’s short comings (ie let’s throw people under the bus to deflect away from their own individual accountability and their leadership responsibilities) as being ‘ultra competitive and passionate’. lol. I’ll have to try this at my work and see how it goes.

Yes but as BC sucks and will continue to suck it all checks out. :)

Leading by example isn’t just what he does between the pipes. Personality preferences is no excuse for bad behaviour. Example, if one of your personality traits is being a blunt person it doesn’t give you licence to say and do what you want with others just because that’s ’who I am’.

I see Jake Thomas’s coaching is already working even though he thought 6’5 TE was an incoming DL. :). I’m a huge Jake Thomas fan now that he’s off the field. Love you JT.

You make some key points especially about Chevy’s record this year but where I branch off is one can be highly competitive, expect excellence from himself and others and be a great team member and leader. It’s not picking and choosing one approach or the other depending on the level of adversity in front of you. It’s predictability and consistently with it all. He’s coming across as being above the team. No one is above the team. That’s not being a Helle hater with weird comments about politics, it’s called how high performing teams operate to win championships.

We * out **** but not boner. lol TE will be Rourke 2.0 but better. One can hope. No harm no foul.

I think this is a great point if TE sticks around and maybe that is how ZC progresses into coaching.

When a professional athlete like CH signs a long term contract I’m assuming before he signs he gets some assurances from management and ownership that they are fully committed to winning. Fair. And if they show they aren’t as time progresses then a discussion is needed. However time it has been only one season that has passed since winning the Presidents trophy and there are no guarantees in winning so needed patience, persistence, individual/team accountability and commitment to the ultimate goal is mandatory. So being the highly skilled conceited questionable self aware prick that he is, I’m thinking he is less focussed on this and more of the it’s everything and everyone else are the problems so when winning doesn’t happen predictably the real CH shows up thru exit interviews and such. Being probably the overall best player on the Jets do we want him highly influencing the culture of this team. True leadership comes out when the seas are angry not calm. CH is a great example that simply being a highly skilled athlete in a specific skill, in this case goaltending, does not make you competent in other areas that doesn’t involve goaltending. I’ll step down from my soap box now.

Saw some of the exit interview with him, he’s a conceited prick, great professional goaltender but still a conceited prick. This is why some professional athletes should not be idolized, they provide great entertainment but that’s where the appreciation should end for athletes like him.