GDT: Syracuse @ Rochester 12/3/10

Mirasty scratched again! WTF

But our man Kennedy is in there, he is a real difference maker with his four shifts a games...

4-1 after one! This team is a joke! And make sure you scratch Mirasty to plug in another powerhouse forward that this team is obviously loaded with. I'm all done. I can spend my entertainment dollars someplace else. And this is what this is supposed to be . Entertainment to the fans. So lets make sure we put a bunch of fumbling idiots on the ice with no chance of even seeing the only guy who can do his job well on this team- Jon Mirasty- fight or at least keep order on the ice. Howard, you better do something and soon or alot of fans are headed for the exits!

crunchlover wrote:

4-1 after one! This team is a joke! And make sure you scratch Mirasty to plug in another powerhouse forward that this team is obviously loaded with. I'm all done. I can spend my entertainment dollars someplace else. And this is what this is supposed to be . Entertainment to the fans. So lets make sure we put a bunch of fumbling idiots on the ice with no chance of even seeing the only guy who can do his job well on this team- Jon Mirasty- fight or at least keep order on the ice. Howard, you better do something and soon or alot of fans are headed for the exits!

Calm down B....or E......4-3 as I type this! But you are right. There is no reason to scratch Mirasty time and time again.

I am off to bed.....3 a.m. comes early. Here's to waking up to a nice surprise....a Crunch win.

Tied going into the third, didn't see that comming...

This team just can't figure out how to finish games. They seem to climb back into games and then blow it almost every time.

All signs of that is that Holick isn't making the right adjustments when he should.

With our roster we shouldn't be this bad of a team.

I don't think these guys have quit on Holick (they did come back from a 3 goal lead), but something
isn't adding up with the way these guys continue to lose.

lettucehead wrote:

All signs of that is that Holick isn't making the right adjustments when he should.

With our roster we shouldn't be this bad of a team.

Not trying to start a fight about this but when you say with this roster we should not be this bad of a team? Sorry all I see is a number 1 line with nothing else. every team we play shuts that line down and then we have to scratch and claw to get back into a game and when we play teams like Rochester and Albany we can do it but when we play teams like WBS and Hershey we are what we are.

We were all shocked including myself with our goal tending but after the first couple months the scouting report is out and we see what we have! Two average goal tenders in the AHL and a sub par defense. I thought that was the strength of this team but has been very suspect of late. I was worried about our forwards but thought there size would be there strength but they do not hit at all.

I am not giving up but with players be recalled and assigned like a yo yo what has changed over the years??? I am not trying to create controversy but its the same as years past and now we are the 2nd worst team in the entire AHL and 22 points off the lead in our division. We are not good right now and things are not looking that great in the near future.

This is what I see this team needs. We need a true #1 goalie. We need at a minimum 2 legit AHL scorers, and sorry but Mirasty is not the answer for this team. I know everyone loves him as I do and love when he fights but right now this team needs a whole **** load more than a fighter.

Sorry for the rant but we are basically dead last and we suck. I see no light at the end of the tunnel and it looks like another year of no play offs. Howard made promises and they are not being fulfilled. I will always be a season ticket holder because I love hockey but this is getting very old very quick.

If any of you remember me from Dave's site I was always optimistic and I am loosing that every game. It is becoming very hard for me to get excited any more to watch games. I was a fan back in the Vancouver days and then the Vancouver / Pittsburgh days when this team was brutal and it seems to be back to those days. I sure hope I am wrong and sorry for being so negative but it is hard to see a bright spot right now!!!

Well by my count there has been at least 8 players on the roster who have played in NHL games.
That is probably more or about average for an AHL team. Plus our captain has won a Stanley Cup,
and a Calder Cup. So people who know more than both of us thought they deserved a shot at some point.

I do agree that all the player movement can be a pain in the ass but that's part of Holick's job
to make it work.