Roughly double, actually: 82/15*75 = 410 lost man-games. And even that prob understates the loss cuz so many of this year’s injuries have been to key personnel.

Well, like someone had said, at least that’s happening now and not in March (fingers crossed)

Yeah, for sure, let’s use up our quota and be done with it!

this keeps up and they miss the playoffs with all these injuries does Gillis get canned?

they wish…

… ok I wish too…

Well…that helped. But from what I have been able to glean reading our various media and listening to the guys on 1040, it seems that Big Frank wanted Nonis gone. That it was more a long time coming thing rather than a spur of the moment.

The not making the playoffs was just the last thing…but not the only thing. Its also the oldest “reason” in the hockey lexicon to fire a guy.

But I could be wrong. I like this guy better than that one.

I did always like “Charie Brown’s” dogged insistence to kick the ball though.

he wanted him gone, that’s obvious. Nonis was a Burke guy, and Burke supported the other ownership group in the dispute.

I just wonder if the excuse given will hold true if Gillis suffers the same fate this year.

One thing’s for sure, Nonis was responsible for assembling the team we enjoy now far far moreso than Gillis is.

Yep…is that Gillis’s fault though?

I have always wondered about that when these kind of discussions come up.

Like its the incoming guy’s fault that he inherits the guys he does.

For me, and I reallly don’t want to turn it into a “thing”, cuz you have made your views on Gillis abundantly clear…for me though, I have liked how MG has changed the culture of the team. The money was the owners, but all the off ice ideas in improvements and things like the sleep studies and diet etc. was all his.

So is some of the depth helping right now. He came in, said the team needed improvements. They played beyond his preseason prediction last year but were shown to have an achille’s heel in regards to speed. They have worked hard on that…The players had to buy into what was asked of them in regards to fitness…but how many guys came in this year in the best shape of their lives? Thats to some extent Gillis’s management as well.