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We have some serious roster needs and the portal is open - other teams are getting some studs including some of ours - so pitter patter let's get at er.

We specialize in portal goalies

Job 1 needs to get some great players here for next year - our rivals are already getting portal players - we lost some studs - time to get some new talent in.

So far it's doodly squat.

Not a big pool to select from - we are among the most inbred athletic department in the country.

In other words - being "one of us" preferred. Same old same old.

Think Charles Bukowski

So in summary - Our program is a underachieving mess and we fire the coach. Then we had a chance to go with a young up and comer to turn this program around but elected to go with a coach who has been with the program for 19 years after supposedly a bunch of players said they would leave if he wasn't hired. We hire him and then almost all of our studs promptly leave. You can't make this up. We have to be the most inbred athletic program in the country.

Not sure what you are saying here - that it's a good move?

In my opinion a failure in his first test of leadership.

Wow - from what I can see Karl has been pretty ineffective - when he was hired I thought wow - here comes a great goalie pipeline - sadly not.

Agree - Part of the problem is how the Ralph manages the game - Stops in action aren't viewed as a time to fire up the crowd - especially after some great or physical play on the ice - it sees it as a time to sell more ads or blare some nonsense music or both. Steamatic races are mildly interesting but have nothing to do with hockey or the play on the ice - They have no idea how to fire up a crowd at a hockey game and from what I can tell don't care very much. Their big idea lately is to invest a lot of money on some system that rotates and flashes lights into the crowd - sometimes into people's eyes. The gigantic scoreboard could certainly be put to better use during breaks. The other problem, of course, has been our style of play lately - especially in the 3rd period. What would be an appropriate cheer when we go into a defensive shell? - "Clutch the stick harder"?

Can you tell us what was the issue?

That would require him to fire most of the people he has worked with - some for a long time. It needs to be done but does he have the stones to do it.

I really hope so - for some it is hard to reconcile Dane's participation in what ever the hell we saw this season with how he would do things as a Head Coach. As a group the forwards were among the worst I have seen in a long time. If he's the coach and they come out playing hard and fast we are back on track. However, if we see the passing, intensity, and game efforts we saw this year we are in big trouble. Sounds like you are confident it will be the former.