my pals over at the NYT slapshot blog have doled out their half-playoff awards, and i must admit i'm all for'em...
[it's in the vein of my annual baby flames awards . last year i only gave out the dreamcrusher, though, so the link here goes to my original eponymous blog: the innaugural awards in 2006 came before hitthepost was founded.... but i digress.]
huge extra kudos to ryane clowe for captainning the "all-surprise team..."
i don't, currently, have a whole lot to add, other than pointing out there's been a lot of giordano 'news' lately, including one article one which reflects what a lot of blog-folk have been saying all year. then there's another one which patronizingly points out that gio ain't gonna be playin' with dion or regehr, even though fans are "pining" for the young blueliner.
uh. yeah.
no shit.
he's still part of the solution, randy sportak (if that IS your real name)....
;)
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Windex Award: Cory Sarich, Calgary … a complete cleaning of Patrick Marleau’s clock.
only thing better wouldbe if sutter came down and did the same to ron wilson.
I don't understand Sportak's take on Giordano. If Calgary doesn't have the cap room to be signing a bunch of new players, and Giordano is an upgrade over Eriksson (who played 20:47 per game), who is going to be playing with Phaneuf next year?
Or look at it this way: what is the more unlikely situation? Giordano playing 20 minutes per game, or Calgary finds someone else who can fill the role?
My personal thought is that if we have a dman with proven ability to join the rush, he deserves to be paired with a puck moving partner. Calgary has done too much of the "hold him back until he develops" garbage. Why don't we let Giordano show he isn't ready, if that's the case?
i actually corresponded with sportak re: this article (he agreed it came across as patronizing, "and probably is"). he was generally on the same page as the rest of us blog-folk --that giordano would be an upgrade from eriksson--- but insists:
"My point is this, Giordano is a 5/6 d-man who struggles in his own zone, has OK offensive skills and is a good enough skater to sometimes make up for his positional flaws. It'll take a big step for him to be a regular in the top-4, although he's very good for the second PP unit. People have actually emailed me saying he'd fit in well with Phaneuf on a full-time basis — seriously. What do you think their plus-minus would be? I'm thinking a good golf score."
my FEAR here is that he's right... my OTHER fear is that SUTTER thinks HE was right last year goes out to get and gets another 5/6 guy disguised as a 1/2 guy (and gio ends up playing with phaneuf anyways)...
i think that, until we see him on the ice, we should be openminded, yet reserved, on what skills gio may have picked up in russia....
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