1. Start playing hockey. Might be a good idea. Instead of showing up and skating around practising figure skating moves for 20-40 minutes out of a 60-minute hockey game, try playing hockey for 60 minutes out of 60.
2. Trade or release Jarome Iginla. Ranked a disappointing 25th in the NHL for points, a sad 14th in the league for goals, and a pathetic 420th for +/- (-1 +/- score, meaning the other team is more likely to score while he’s on the ice than off) he’s just not performing at the level a “star” or a “captain” should be.
3. Fire Brent Sutter. He was brought in to bring the (f)Lames past the first round of the playoffs. He didn’t. Under Brent’s steady hand, the (f)Lames got worse this year than last.
4. Fire Daryl Sutter. Despite bringing the (f)Lames to the Stanley Cup Final in 2004, the Sutter family has failed to adapt to the new NHL rules implemented since the lockout in 2005. It’s a different game now than it was in 2004, and the Sutter System just doesn’t work. Clearly Daryl Sutter, as GM, is unable to accept this, and continues to hire coaching staff which is “loyal” to his system, so he simply has to go.
Unless the (f)Lames can get themselves out of the pattern of playing pathetic hockey, start showing up and playing for 60 minutes a game, and adapt to the new NHL rules, the fans are going to start finding other teams or sports to support, and the next thing we’ll know, the (f)Lames will go the same way as the Winnepeg Jets.
Pity.
I can almost guarantee you that if Iggy hits the trading block there will 29 teams looking to pick him up!
I agree with all points except for #3. How many times can we blame the coach? Daryl’s time may be up, but Brent is a good coach – as was Keenan, Playfair, Gilbert, etc.
I’ve come to agree that it’s time for Iggy to go. Pull the trigger on a trade while he is still very valuable – we will be able to get quite a bit for him now. In 2-3 years? No way.
Brent Sutter is part of the problem simply because he is part of the Sutter family. The problem is systemic – the family has developed a “system” for hockey, and it has been a proven dismal failure in the new NHL.
I am leery about anyone with the name Sutter involved with the (f)Lames.
Iggy is a $7 million annual liability. It is time to cut the losses.