Thrashers still cannot get Niitty-Monkey off their back
The Atlanta Thrashers have now failed fifteen times to procure two points in the standings when going up against Finnish goaltender Antero Niittymaki. It doesn’t matter if he’s wearing a big Flying P on his jersey or a lightning bolt…when he’s between the pipes it spells Loss with a capital L for Thrasherville. This was again the case Saturday night when the Thrashers fell to the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in a shootout.
Niittymaki’s take on this phenomenon…”I can’t explain it”.
Yeah well…I have a theory.
Somewhere in the icy, frozen outskirts of northern Canada, in a sealed vault deep in the basement hockey god’s ice rink…I’m sure there is a contract that was inked several years ago between the gods and Niittymaki. That pact, no doubt, assures the 29-year old Finn that, no matter what the circumstances, he will never, ever, never…ever… never….everrrrrrrrrr be beaten by the Atlanta Thrashers.
The only thing I haven’t quite figured out is… what is it exactly the hockey gods are getting in return.
Jeff Halpern scores the oly goal in the five-round shootout to beat Atlanta 2-1 (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
The Thrashers took a total of 38 shots on Niittymaki…out-shooting the Lightning by 12 during regulation and overtime. But after Antropov’s goal in the first period, the Thrashers couldn’t figure him out the rest of the way…including all five shootout attempts by Maxim Afinogenov, Ilya Kovalchuk, Bryan Little, Rich Peverley and Todd White. All but Max’s shot were on net.
Johan Hedberg, the latest Thrashers goalie to fall victim to the team’s Niittymaki curse, had yet another outstanding performance. He turned aside 25 of Tampa Bay’s 26 shots and the first four Lightning penalty shots. But his efforts fell just short as Jeff Halpern’s successful shootout attempt in the fifth round was enough to procure the win for the Bolts.
Hedberg is now 10-8-4 with a .915 SV% and 2.52 GAA.
The two regulation goals where both scored in the first seven and a half minutes of the game. Nik Antropov put Atlanta up 1-0 5:23 into the game…but Steven Stamkos’ power play goal just over two minutes later tied things up.
The Stamkos goal came via a 4 on 3 man advantage.
With Colby Armstrong and Steve Downie already serving time for roughing, Pavel Kubina then drew an interference call after colliding with Martin St. Louis….and coach John Anderson was none-too-happy with the ref’s decision.
“We had control of the game pretty much the whole way”, coach Anderson said. “The goal they scored was a 4-on-3. That was a phantom call. He ran into our guy and we got a penalty”.
Martin St. Louis, seen here standing between teammates and Ilya Kovalchuk, drew an interference call on Pavel Kubina that lead to a 4 on 3 goal (AP Photo/Chris O'Meara)
Speaking of “phantom”…I heard a rumor that Todd White was slated to ply in Saturday night’s game, but I really didn’t notice him…did you? I looked in the box score and…yup… there he was, just to the left of the stat line that read zero goals, zero assists on zero shots on goal during 15:17 TOI.
White was re-inserted into the lineup so that Slava Kozlov could have a seat in the press box. Of course, given the Thrashers luck of late, that just meant that the Slava-matic was unavailable for the shootout…one of the aspects of the game he still has been very consistent with.
sigh…
Ya know…maybe we need to send Slava and White north to pay a visit with the hockey gods with a few cases of Labatt and Molson beer in tow…maybe even some Moosehead, eh?
Or whatever it is that worked for Niittymaki.
More S/F and Less S/A Not Equating To More Ws
For those of you who have express concern over the shot for/shots against deficit that normally shows up in the box score for the Atlanta Thrashers, check this out. In their last five losses they have actually out-shot their opponents. This includes the 8-1 Capital punishment administered on January 9.
Uh-huh…in fact, in their past seventeen games, they have won the SF/SA battle by an average of 32.0 to 30.2 and have taken more shots than they’ve allowed during a game nine times.
Their record in that span of games…4-8-5.
Thrashers Not-So-Special Teams Play
In the past five games, the Thrashers have gone 1 for 25 on the power play, which is a 4.0% production rate. Dating back to January 5, they have converted 3 of 43 man advantages…6.9%
In the past two games, they have given up 4 power play goals on 8 penalty kill situations…that is a 50% efficiency.
For the season, the Thrashers power play is 17th in the NHL at 17.7% and their penalty kill is 22nd at 79.5%. Both had been ranked at or near the top of the league in the first two months of the season.
And Finally…
Last night at TJ’s, I…along with the others sitting nearby…came up with a new drinking game. We call it, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Basically, whenever watching a Thrashers game on TV and John Anderson drops the “Whiskey Tango Foxtrot” bomb while the camera is zoomed in on him…you take a shot.
For the designated drivers that might be in the crowd, we have the drinking game in which Matt McConnell calls out “Todd White scores”!
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Adam
January 25th, 2010
3:45 pm
WBF – Then lets go the the polygamist route
and name a co-captain.
Brett
January 25th, 2010
3:55 pm
Dudley has nice hair?
Tom Lysiak
January 25th, 2010
4:53 pm
The Kozlov scratch was a long time coming. How many times on the PP during the previous two weeks did he muff passes that came to him? Complete lack of concentration or desire (or does he already know Kovy is outta here?). He is certainly not the only one (White, Little, etc.), but it was long overdue.
This is the easiest team in the world to defend on the PP. Everything is geared to Kovy. Other people who have decent/great shots (Toby, Slava, Zach) always defer to him. No doubt he is a sniper, but one dimensional teams lose. Double him or collapse your entire defense towards him and you beat this team. Because, there is no consistent secondary scoring threat. Everyone acts like they are afraid to score on the PP because the “game plan” was to get it to Kovy.
Team defense sucks. Pure and simple. Other teams can pitch a tent in front of our net. You don’t have to look far past these stats to see one of the problems (forwards not playing defense):
Kovy has 30 goals and is +3.
Max and Pevs have 16 goals (each) and are -8 (love the scoring, but…)
Kozlov has 8 goals and is -14.
Todd White has 4 goals and is -16.
Contrast all those to Antro who has 13 goals and is +17. I don’t profess to be an expert, but even a fan like me who never played the game can figure that out.
Last, I would be less shocked to win the cup this year than I would be to see Kovy resign. If he wanted to be here and play for this team, there is no reason to have waited. They committed to him with the “C” and it was on him to commit in return. No way a one dimensional player (30 goals, yet only +3), who pouts constantly, deserves 10 million per year, much less 11.3 million or whatever the rumor is he is holding out for.
You pay one guy that much for a decade or more in the salary cap era, you have put all your eggs in one basket. No way to field a balanced, scoring team when one guy makes that much money. You are destined for lots of lunch-pail type players and that is what this team already has enough of. I’d much rather have Kovy, Kozlov and White replaced by whoever they get in trade for Kovy. Get guys who want to play here and make it THEIR team, EVERYONE’S team, not Kovy’s team.
No doubt everyone knows we will be moving Kovy and the return will be less. But, somebody may panic and make a desperation bid to go for the cup. Hopefully we can work teams like Chicago that have known cap issues and steal some good, young players under contract already. Seems better than continuing down this same path….
rob
January 25th, 2010
6:12 pm
Take the C off and expose him for what he is…..a talent with no heart! You have to have heart to be a C in the NHL. Talent gets you some nice goals, but HEART pulls a team together and holds people ACCOUNTABLE (think that horrible Caps fiasco). HEART shows the way to win the close games(Tampa Bay), and drives a dagger through the ones you are SUPPOSE to win (can anyone say Carolina!!!)
Brendan
January 25th, 2010
6:29 pm
Red Light, thanks for that Elias Sports Bureau update on Niittymaki. So, four (4) more wins to go!!
Brendan
January 25th, 2010
6:33 pm
Even if we could trade for Coburn, using Armstrong, the previously existing trades stand. I think we can make an exception for a “rental” trade, the way St. Louis does it with Tkachuk. But we cannot act as if we “rented” Coburn to the Flyers for a period of years/seasons.
I’m thinking Braydon Coburn has a no trade clause, at this point. It’s kinda funny to think about it, but I think Slava Kozlov is the only Thrashers to get ask for a “no trade clause” in his contract. The Thrasher who asks for a NTC is the guy who plays here because he likes where he lives.
rob
January 25th, 2010
6:46 pm
Rawhide,
Or anyone else who may have knowledge. I have been in Atlanta for some years now, born and bred in Buffalo (don’t hold it against me I moved right?). Been cheering all that time for the Sabres, going only to the Thrashers games when they were here. Well my wife finally found “Hockey Love” and being from here, she cheers for the Thrashers. After some soul searching I decided that I will always cheer for the beloved Sabres (except against the Thrashers now), but I am never moving back and the Thrashers are my home town team (for better or for worse…..waiting on the better) So we have been to quite a few games this year some good some bad, watched all the rest on Sports South or NHL Package (even the french called one in Montreal). With all the transplants and fans from Flames/Knights eras here, why isn’t more pressure brought to bear on management and players? The only articles I see are just someone saying what happened in practice, who the lines were, and who will be in net……not quite what I’d say JOURNALISM so much as just writing what was given/spoonfed to them. Where is the fans voice?!?!?!? Who is looking out for US? Very disheartening that my wife, who is still learning the game (fanatically I must add I have created a monster!LOL) can see the problems that need/aren’t being addressed. I know overall hockey might not be a huge success here, but a few strong playoff runs and hard play might change that (the Hawks are a good example here, compare the attendance when they were sucking for so long and now that they have had a few brief years of some success). So with that thought where is our spokesperson and how do we get a real one?
Smitty
January 25th, 2010
7:22 pm
Rob,
Imagine the type of coverage this team would get in Toronto, New York or even our home town team in Buffalo. I think the more bad publicity this organization would receive might lead to some major changes.
World Be Free
January 25th, 2010
7:39 pm
Adam-we will need to move the team to Salt Lake City to make your suggestion legal
World Be Free
January 25th, 2010
7:51 pm
Rob and Smitty-I can remember in the 80’s and mid 90’s when the Sabres we not too good. Their record in 1987 was sooo poor, they had the 1st overall pick. So we know Buffalo has weathered some lean years with the Sabres.
The difference between Atlanta and most hockey towns, is the lack of media pressure to make changes when the team is in a prolonged slump. There is no bad publicity here, because most of the Atlanta media has their collective heads up their shorts when it comes to hockey and the Thrashers. Especially once NASCAR season starts in a few weeks.
Still a Sabres fan, but the Thrashers are #1, Buffalo is #1a.
Scotty
January 25th, 2010
7:57 pm
Todd White being skated out there for a shootout try with the game in the balance?
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT???
*downs a shot*
Lee
January 25th, 2010
8:12 pm
Scotty-Kovy too eh?
Scotty
January 25th, 2010
8:29 pm
Lee, I can understand sending the team’s leading scorer out there in the second round of a shooyout. But Todd White when failing means you lose the game?
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT???
*downs a another shot*
LAC
January 25th, 2010
9:29 pm
You are correct WBF, everyone on this blog knows what a complete WIMP the beat writer than covers hockey here is, He is nothing but a complete TOOL of ajc/spirit/waddell and will do anything THEY say instead of doing what the FANS demand !
R. Stroz
January 25th, 2010
10:04 pm
How many days till February?
Didn’t Waddell say the Kovy situation would be resolved by February? OOPS, Waddell didn’t say February of which year.
What date will Waddell draw as the next line in the sand?
Inquiring minds want to know!
R. Stroz
January 25th, 2010
10:06 pm
LAC – Have you ever thought of painting the Three Stooges on one of your rail cars, with the faces of Levenson, Waddell, and Seydel imposed for Larry, Moe, and Curly?
Brendan
January 25th, 2010
10:44 pm
Larry, Moe, and Curly would probably be offended by that. Their schtick is INTENTIONAL.
World Be Free
January 25th, 2010
10:48 pm
LAC-I get pissed when I watch the news or listen to “Sports Talk Radio” and hear nothing about the Thrashers. What’s the problem here? These guys have 8 hours to fill in with sports and they cannot toss hockey a bone every here and there? Good that we, as true hockey fans have this orum to air our views amongst our peers.
680 and 790 need to get their acts together; I boycott both because of lack of hockey coverage. The beat writer’s shortcomings are why Bill and our blog get all my time.
Curly
January 25th, 2010
10:53 pm
I am offended.
Brendan
January 25th, 2010
11:03 pm
Ya know, it suddenly dawns on me just how much this market CAN endure, hockey-wise. Even now, arguably at its worst, most exasperating moment EVER, given where we OUGHT TO BE … BY NOW … hockey is still surviving. And well, that is astonishing. Really. It is.
Here we have remorselessly clueless ownership, tied to a manager just happy to collect a paycheck … AND YETTTTT, Blueland still manages over 10,000 fans. And these are people who KNOW BETTER, but can’t help themselves. They show up, anyway. They’re THAAAAT hockey addicted.
Remember when we didn’t know any better? And we soldout 38 of 41 home games in the Inaugural season. Yeah, well … that’s the LEVEL of hockey interest in this town. All it needs to survive … is accountable ownership. Hockey hasn’t started yet in Atlanta. And it won’t, until ownership committed to trying to win the Cup is installed. That’s never happened with this franchise, in all its various ownership incarnations.
Red Light
January 25th, 2010
11:32 pm
You can’t get any intelligent basketball coverage either. It’s football, signing day, spring football, the NFL draft and then preseason football in this town, not that any of the local teams are worthy of it.
But look guys, it’s depressing to know what could have been. Philips could have been a great venue with fans and novices alike, pounding down the door to get in. Problem is, they handed over the reins to a would-be Maserati to those better served driving a hay wagon behind two mules.
No local promotional presence except a few hospital visits here and there for photo ops and a bunch of nameless players with surnames most of the ya-hoos down here can’t pronounce. Then, we get to the game and have to listen to J-Bird do the same inane contests and listen to music so loud you can’t have a conversation with a guy in the section next to you (no one sits in your section anymore). It has been the same BS every stinking year. Rare are highlights. Keys to the Game offered up seven minutes into the game.
No originality from building to building. What drives me insane is the PA announcer stepping on his tongue and doing an excitable goal announcement even though we’re down 4-0. The radio coverage for this team from day one has been a joke. More than half the fans that would even think about listening to the game can’t get it on their car radios 25 miles north of the arena.
This franchise is a Vaudeville act gone bad. The first three years you were hoping it was just growing pains, now those pains are terminal diseases.
On the ice and upstairs in the idiot’s corner asylum the problems are even worse. Anyone who thinks he and they know what they are doing in personnel matters high above the Arena are delusional or simply don’t know hockey.
Take the remaining pieces that are left with the young kids, blow it up and start over. The building needs to go to a general admission set-up so those willing to still watch this garbage are in range of the $1 t-shirts that stupidass bird shoots out of his pea shooter. And, what’s with the Blue Brothers guards with Thrash? They get paid for that, or does it just go on their resume as Fan Experience Assistant.
We all should be furious, but that’s what I love about you guys, is that even after putting up with this ineptness for 10 freaking years, you’re still here and your still hockey fans, and that my friends you just can’t put a price tag on. I hope the Ducks win by 16 tomorrow night and maybe that will wake somebody up in the executive lavatory! But, I doubt it.
World Be Free
January 26th, 2010
5:26 am
You know Brendan, if our Canadian media friends would open their eyes and see things the way you have explained, they might wonder how in the world we get 10,000/night. They need to examine our “rich history”.
Miami Screaming Eagle
January 26th, 2010
7:51 am
Red Light, excellent post. I couldn’t have said it better.
James Brown
January 26th, 2010
9:14 am
790 the Zone will not give the Thrashers any coverage except for Chris Dimino`s horrible Air Tran hockey report “some mornings”. Steak Shapiro is still miffed that the team moved over to 680 for a better deal a few years ago…………now that the Braves have made 680 their flagship station I bet Shapiro is fit to be tied……………At least John Kincade will call out the Thrasher`s management and so will Jeff Schultz occasionally in the AJC…….Waddell enjoys the luxury of flying under the radar here…..can you imagine him having to answer to the Toronto press???….not bad work if you can get it
Miami Screaming Eagle
January 26th, 2010
9:57 am
Howard Berger, Don Cherry or half the other hockey writers in Toronto? What kills me is Mike Milbury on the Hotstove, making it sound like all the problems with the Thrashers are owner related; poor Don Waddell’s hands are tied.
The owners don’t make countless poor personnel decisions.
Rawhide
January 26th, 2010
10:50 am
Not knowing who is the healthy scratch yet…but it really seems to be coming down between either Todd White or Slava Kozlov. Between the two, I would rather skate Slava given that he can at least be of benifit if the game goes to a shootout.
Also…if…IF…IF…the Thrashers get two points tonight…and Florida and the Islanders each lose in regulation, the Thrashers would tied with FLA, NYI and BOST with 54 points one point behind eighth place NYR.
Just sayin’….
Schroeder
January 26th, 2010
10:58 am
“IF,IF’S AND BUT’S,WERE CANDY AND NUTS OH WHAT A GREAT SEASON THIS WOULD BE!!!!
Hockey Biltong
January 26th, 2010
11:13 am
It all flows downhill.
Owners care only about b-ball.
Hockey mangmnt needs to huddle and soul search to make ownership change their view to appreciate hockey more than they do presently.
This team is the best I’ve seen on paper in years. But, if there is not a Bunsen burner under everyones collective ass, then the fans, who are at the bottom of the pile, see and feel the lack of effort clearly on the “give a crap o’meter”.
There is weird crap going on at so many different levels in this org. that I’m suprised that the lights even get turned on in time for the start of the game. I see and read things that drive me batshit.
And I’m pineing for the day when David Mcdavid or some other worthy owner grabs the reins of this franchise that has so much unrealised potential……
Right now I’m just throwing up in my mouth…..
Hockey Biltong
January 26th, 2010
11:16 am
I think my great blog got lost. damn.
Hockey Biltong
January 26th, 2010
11:19 am
ahhhhh.uuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrp.
TableHockey
January 26th, 2010
11:27 am
Chris V is reporting that Slava and Pop are the scratches for tonights game. Here’s hoping it doesn’t go to a shoot out.
Rawhide
January 26th, 2010
11:31 am
Chris V is reporting that Slava and Pop are the scratches for tonights game. Here’s hoping it doesn’t go to a shoot out.
TableHockey – Yup….and Moose starts tonight too.
Brett
January 26th, 2010
12:00 pm
Great post Red Light! I couldn’t agree more! At some point management has to recognize that something has to be done to bring the fans back. I’m a former STH that has been to one game this year. I hate it! I so enjoyed going to the games,but I just couldn’t continue to subsides the inferior product. It seems as though this organization has been in a constant rebuilding phase. At what point does management say, “Enough is enough” and spend some money to build toward a Cup run? You have to spend money to make money!!
R. Stroz
January 26th, 2010
12:01 pm
So Slava is sitting out.
Based on a combination of Murphy’s Law and Anderson’s luck, overtime and a shootout tonight.
The only question is: Will Todd White be shooting if the game is on the line?
World Be Free
January 26th, 2010
12:15 pm
Looks like a number of teams are dropping out of the Kovy sweepstakes.
Could the Sabres be in? Kovy to the Sabres? Now that would make the 3.16 game vs. Buffalo very interesting. Physcho Sabres fans and Kovy in white with the slug on his chest against the Thrashers. Can’t wait for everyone’s reaction on this one.
Just trying to stir the pot on a boring day.
R. Stroz
January 26th, 2010
12:27 pm
Could the Sabres be in? Kovy to the Sabres? Now that would make the 3.16 game vs. Buffalo very interesting. Physcho Sabres fans and Kovy in white with the slug on his chest against the Thrashers. Can’t wait for everyone’s reaction on this one.
If that happens, I’ll drag an effigy of Don Waddell from my house to Philps Arena.
Alan R.
January 26th, 2010
12:28 pm
Could the Sabres be in? Kovy to the Sabres?
Hmm… I’m thinking of something…
Ah, yes. Here we are.
“He’s every day, he’s smiling, and that’s the most important thing. In Buffalo you can’t smile. If you smile you sit on the bench.” – Ilya Kovalchuk on Maxim Afinogenov
English Teacher
January 26th, 2010
12:31 pm
I lol’d @ TWS.
John Anderson
January 26th, 2010
12:38 pm
“Could the Sabres be in? Kovy to the Sabres? Now that would make the 3.16 game vs. Buffalo very interesting. Physcho Sabres fans and Kovy in white with the slug on his chest against the Thrashers. Can’t wait for everyone’s reaction on this one.”
WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT !?!?
everyone take a drink
Rawhide
January 26th, 2010
12:41 pm
Could the Sabres be in? Kovy to the Sabres? Now that would make the 3.16 game vs. Buffalo very interesting. Physcho Sabres fans and Kovy in white with the slug on his chest against the Thrashers. Can’t wait for everyone’s reaction on this one.
WBF – If that happened, I would think the only appropriate reaction from the Thashers fans would be…
FI-RE WAD-DEL
clap-clap-clapclapclap
FI-RE WAD-DEL
clap-clap-clapclapclap
FI-RE WAD-DEL
clap-clap-clapclapclap
FI-RE WAD-DEL
clap-clap-clapclapclap
FI-RE WAD-DEL
clap-clap-clapclapclap
FI-RE WAD-DEL
clap-clap-clapclapclap
…for the entire 60 minutes of the next home game.
World Be Free
January 26th, 2010
1:12 pm
Boy I like to get everyone’s blood moving, but there’s a few posters I haven’t heard from yet that we can count on for colorful reactions.
I think we need to give us your feelings on Kovy, the possibility of him staying and the effects of moving him. We need to have a discussion beyond just calling him a bad captain, lazy and all that stuff. The next few weeks are key to this franchise, for today and the distant future because this guy is our best player and their is no close second. Judging him strictly as a talented hockey player, should this team pony up and sign him long term or should we stop any negotiations today and get what we can for him? We have talked about this for months, but the time is now for a decision.
So folks, what is our decision as fans?
Smitty
January 26th, 2010
2:21 pm
Could Lindy Ruff get some physical and/or defensive play out of Kovy?
Could Lindy get Kovy to play around or in front of the net like Vanek?
What would the Sabres have to give up?
Buffalo is a blue collar town. Kovy’s not exactly a blue collar player.
But with 18,000+fans cheering him on who knows what he might become.
GaVaHokie
January 26th, 2010
2:43 pm
I gotta say, Montreal and Minnesota are looking pretty smart with the Poulliot and Lattendresse swap… something like that would be nice right about now.
This was the same time of year we picked up Peverley and it changed the dynamic.
Red Light
January 26th, 2010
2:45 pm
I can’t see Kovy in Buffalo for longer than it takes the Sabres to win the Eastern Conference with him in that lineup. He’d revel in the excitement for three months and then Sabres fans will join us in booing him wholeheartedly in Oct. 2010.
Frankly, Regier isn’t stupid enough to give up too much for a rental but I’d take anyone off that roster except for Rivet, Lydman, Grier and Tallinder and be thrilled with it. The younger guys know how to play hard, fast and don’t care about what the talent is around them.
DEAL HIM WBF!!!
Adam
January 26th, 2010
3:01 pm
WBF- The key for this franchise is already passed. Like I said at the start of the season this team needs to have 4-6 home games in the post season this spring. Until that happens they will flounder in the bottom 3rd of the conference.
Lee
January 26th, 2010
3:10 pm
At least John Kinkaid will call out the thrashers, Buck Belue doesn’t give a crap, well it seems like Don Waddell doesn’t either. Oh, well, nothing new, we can just sit back and relax and watch our team slowly hitchhike their way to Canada.
World Be Free
January 26th, 2010
3:10 pm
Gotta agree with you Adam.
Also, I do not see Buffalo stepping up and getting Kovy, thought that’s what they need to compete. Their west coast road trip showed that Buffalo is a good team with a great goalie. They need Kovy more than any other team in the east, but they don’t have the guts or the assets to make the deal.
Philly might do it, or L.A. Everyone seems scared by the $11M/year demand.
Schroeder
January 26th, 2010
3:11 pm
Unless the NHL changes the rules to allow a DS(Designated Scorer)like the DH in baseball,Kovy will always be an offensive minded forward,as he has grown up knowing only how to shoot a one-timer and the ocassional quick wrister. That is why I have always thought that a sign and trade is the best option for this team.I realize that he is the “FACE” of the franchise,but I think we can all agree that this team needs a facelift.There is always the possibility that by trading #17 we might lose the “pedestrian” fan. Although if Dudley can orchestrate a deal that could bring us a couple of real 2-way forwards and some defensive accountability is forthcoming,a new face of a winning franchise would not only appeal to the pedestrian fan,but give us hard core types some hope. I say sign him,trade him and get some more pieces to make a run not only this year but more years down the road. I liken #17 to a career .215 hitter that hits 40 homers w/100 rbi but commits 60 errors.Fun to watch hit,but will give you ulcers in the field.
Lee
January 26th, 2010
3:11 pm
kinda random, but where has EOB been?
GaVaHokie
January 26th, 2010
3:19 pm
Lee… banned for life… seriously.
I’d be fine trading Kovy to Buffalo if Tyler Ennis or Zach Kassian came back in the package, but we’d probably only get Jochen Hecht as a roster player.