Post by Jack Bauer on Mar 30, 2014 22:43:40 GMT -4
Why am I the only one on here not allowed to voice his opinion? Oh, I understand, because I speak the TRUTH. No one wants to hear the truth.
Getting spanked, slapped, and embarrassed in 4 straight games like that should be a huge wake up call for everyone - rebuilt or not, this team CAN NOT COMPETE with the real Q teams - in fact, other than Halifax no Maritime team can - and it will not change. Seeing who Dumont has brought in proves that.
Getting Ratelle as part of the Carrier deal? Do we need another 5'10" guy who can score 10 goals? No, we have enough of those up front already.
Getting Gauthier for Carrier? Another skating d-man who doesn't know what to do in his own end - we have enough of those too!
Dumont came in to a totally broken team - and put some parts in place that worked - getting Darcy was a coup (but he won't be back), but other moves (Dozzi, Lindsay, Fortin, and don't get me started on the D) have set the team back a long ways, and next year will not be any better.
And, with more and more Quebec kids not wanting to be here (and that is a fact - I'd predict Gauthier isn't back, for one), things won't get better.
Sorry for having my own opinions - it should be noted I've never called anyone on here names the way that I get attacked for simply voicing my views.
Everyone is allowed to share opinion.
But backing that opinion up with your own hockey playing experience while you continuously make comments that you've already been corrected on make you look foolish.
If I came on here and bragged about playing in the NHL while saying Gretzky was the best defenceman to ever play doesn't do much for my credibility.
So if you want to share your very clear opinion that you think everything sucks here you are absolutely allowed to do that. But also imagine how it looks when you say things like:
A) You call Gauthier a Dman
B) Say Bell should have been out there fighting more when he hadn't played in 2 months
C) You already wrote the franchise off for 4 years
D) You continue to dump on what others call one of the more improved players over the full course of the season in Nosella
E) You say Linday being here set the team back
F) Ratelle is a useless 10 goal scorer
G) Lazarev should be out starting fights
And your only response in defence of these items is to cry you are being bullies and apologize for being emotional.
This team took huge strides this year to put itself back on the right path. Clearly there are parts of the QMJHL cycle and rebuilding ways that you never quite picked up on during your own path to pro hockey.
But if you're going to demand respect while making outlandish false comments without backing yourself up then I think you are smart enough to understand how that looks.
This board has been one of the more negative places to be since 2009 or so when a lot of bad decisions started being made. The downfall to this point was predicted, outlined very clearly and essentially begged by dozens of posters here to not happen.
Now that things are turning back the other way you decide to come in and try shitting on any progress while giving the impression that there's nothing good to build on and nothing worth following here for the next 4 years.
Not 1 person has ever said the rebuild is over and all the pieces are in place. Yet it's a point you seem intent on hammering home. Do you realize that a good portion of the veteran posters thoughts about the future come from the 10 1st and 2nd round picks we hold over the next 2 drafts? The 5-6 pieces who at 16 and 17 showed promise of all being star players at 18 and 19?
If you're really going to shit on the future at least try to understand the past.
And if you want the respect of being heard you are really going to have to earn it.