Friday afternoon notes: Shea Weber and the Deafening Silence

  So why not make some kind of move that spends at the lower portion of that estimate, like the 2.5M example you gave here? This isn’t a unique situation that only the Preds have to deal with, every team has to estimate where their payroll is going to be at.

I just think they did the one year deal to avoid the arbitration hearing, and give themselves more time to work out a longer deal.

Maybe he’s concerned about who will be their goalie for the long term ha ha ha…

  That’s “a whole lot”. Need sleep. :/

They played the Oilers, the 8th seed out of the west, as opposed to this year’s Canucks. And even the Oilers pushed them to game 7.

  Not once will you ever have seen me labal someone a “bad fan”. First off, I don’t know anyone here well enough to make that discernment, and secondly, it has no bearing on any point they may be making. You, along with a few others, seem to be quite comfortable in grading the fandom of other posters and insulting them personally like you did above. Ironic that it’s the self-proclaimed “good fan” that seem to be the one’s lobbing the personal insults and telling people to go vote for another team.

  As shoot the puck and myself noted, the 05/06 Canes situation was far from where we are at right now. There isn’t anything “obtuse” about wondering where the comparison was going with that analogy.

  Speaking of the Canes, this all reminds of the start of the 03/04 season with Carolina. A few of us looked at the roster and said it was probably the worst offensive team in the league. We got the same treatment that people here get when criticizing the makeup of part of our current roster. When the Canes finished dead last in scoring for the 2nd straight season, none of those people ever apologized for all the comments they made throughout the season towards the so-called “naysayers”. And the reason for that is probably the same as it would be here: it’s not the validity of the argument being made that’s really at issue for many, it’s that others aren’t being “good fans” in their eyes.

 I’m not in any position to declare who’s a good or bad fan, it’s a shame others don’t place that same constraint on themselves.

  I have sinned, I have sinned! I shall go and repent before the golden jersey and seek remission for my transgressions. :D

  My view is tainted right now due to the past 4 years of experience with our lack of addressing the scoring issue. If you look at our top 6 forwards in 07/08 and compare it to what our current top 6 look like (taking into account where all those players were at in their respective careers at that point), one could say that we were better 4 years ago than we are now. That shouldn’t be the case.

D. This is almost as intriguing as over on the buzz. lol but the Buzz has died down here lately.

I have no issue holding Poile responsible if he does not make us better. Poile has a track record…a pretty good one in bringing in players, but under certain conditions, most regrettably, revolving around finances.

I don’t know what deals he has attempted, rejected, comtimplated. As fans, it appears we have been inactive in free agency, but it does not mean Poile is inactive in attempting to make us better….His track record simpyl does not indicate it.

So I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt…for now.

  PD, you start out almost every post of yours with a veiled cheapshot at whoever’s point of view you don’t happen to like. Playing good guy now isn’t fooling anyone.

  And let me guess who the “good” amatuer GM’s here are and who the “bad” one’s are.