If they don't trade him, he's in danger of being bodily harmed by one of his teammates...or a random fan. Tonight he is directly responsible for the loss. Mark Parrish tied the game up with five or so minutes to go, and before they even had time to make the goal announcement, the Sharks had scored. Why? Because Martin Skoula sucks at life. DR is very famous for that ten player trade that sent Gilmour to the Leafs back in the day, but now he made an even worse decision to get Martin Skoula for Willie Mitchell instead of nothing. The team would have been better off losing Willie to free agency. Night after night he gives away the puck, trips over paint lines, and has no offensive upside to make up for it, not to mention he looks like he got badly beaten with the ugly stick. People in the crowd were chanting "Let's Trade Skoula!", instead of the usual and ever creative "Let's Go Wild!" Oh and Demitra. He needs to learn how to pass/recieve passes and take faceoffs.
On a brighter note, Mark Parrish scored a goal, and looked like a very excited eight year old. Actually, so did I as Mark Parrish is my hero. Niklas Backstrom played very well, even if the defencemen seem to started their New Year's celebration early. Maybe that's where all those empty bottles of Captain Morgan came from (as I was walking down the stairs after the game, there was a cart full of empty Captain Morgan bottles). It's not good that he's being forced to make upwards of 40 saves each time we play.
It's almost January, so who will be the captain for the next month? I hope it's Parrish again, but rumblings around the Cities point to Belanger. Everyone is all of a sudden singing his praises again. I like Belanger and all, but he's not the second coming of Guy Lafleur. Wes Walz maybe, but not Guy Lafleur.
PS: Whoever can explain to me why Jacques Lemaire still likes Skoula and can make me believe their explaination (and preferably entertain me while doing so) will win some sort of prize.
7 comments:
Alright, I have tried to come up with reasons as to why JL still likes Skoula. Since it was such a difficult, long task, I have dedicated an entire blog post to it: http://18568reasonswhy.blogspot.com/
hahaha, your pictures/drawings are hilarious.
Elise-Awesome, I'll go and check that out.
Ckim-Thanks! I do what I can.
Wow, you went hardcore on Skoula. I was going to but once I started typing it went another direction. I totally agree tho. I didn't realize it was Skoula that missed the play at first, but once I saw him out on the ice I'm like, "IT WAS SKOULA!" without even seeing what really happened. Here's to maybe someday Skoula being a healthy scratch...
I think the only way a team will take Skoula is if you give them a good player to go along with it...
For example my Avs in exchange for taking Skoula back, you'll have to give us Pierre-Marc Bouchard too.
jdog-I started off being sarcastic, and then decided I'd just let it out and be mean.
Jibblescribbits-I was figuring that would happen, in order to get some team to take him off our hands, we'd either have make a trade of Joe Thornton proportions, and there aren't many GMs in the league dumb enough to go for that, or we'd have to give up someone good. Maybe we can just put him on waivers, but then the Aeros would have to deal with his crap. Constaintine would quit.
preach, girl.
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