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Well, Leighton dragged a team that should have lost in the first round to the cup finals, while bryz barely won a 1st round series.

@Samifan Rick DiPietro

Didn't Emery start most of the games when they Blackhawks were streaking at the beginning of the season?

The only reason I mentioned his stats is because unlike Hitchcock and Gretzky and many other Head coaches is because he is coaching a specific position rather than micromanaging players in and out of practices and games, managing a team in a non-position specific role is vastly different than being a specialized position coach. I was wrong earlier, it was actually 8 of 12 goalies that have dropped in numbers when having Reese coach them. But otherwise he shows only a negative difference in his players even if its not that appreciable. Khabibulin showed a .8% increase in save percentage with him, where with Bob a -2.3% difference. Bryz a -1.1% Then again maybe they just don't make the difference we should expect a goalie coach to make in goalies. http://vhockey.blogs...ty-fantasy.html Reese's long tenure's at a position where he doesn't make that big of a difference is probably more likely due to the fact that the goalies like him as a person.

He has been skating and training more than the other players, he might come out the gates as a strong player. He might also run out of gas earlier than them as well.

Again, this doesn't deter from the fact that 10 of 12 goalies he has touched have had a drop in their save % with him. But you can keep talking about Hitchcock and other people that aren't Reese if that makes your points about Reese valid. This also seems to be one of the last forums that's still all about "praise Reese" still. Then again it's a trend I see all over these forums, find someone that disagrees and get the same 5 posters to team up and attack them on it.

Oh, I was never referring to Hitchcock, mostly because this topic is about Reese, not Hitchcock. In fact I never said anything about Hitchcock, so your anger is your own fault. However, if we want to get technical, Reese was an Assistant coach when he won the cup with the lighting.

Who the hell are you talking about? Goalie Sv% with Reese Sv% without Reese Difference Kevin Weekes 90.2% 90.3% -0.1% Dan Cloutier 89.1% 89.9% -0.8% Nikolai Khabibulin 91.4% 90.6% +0.8% John Grahame 90.0% 89.6% +0.4% Sean Burke 89.5% 90.2% -0.7% Marc Denis 87.9% 90.2% -2.6% Mike Smith 91.1% 91.4% -0.3% Michael Leighton 91.3% 89.6% +1.7% Ray Emery 90.5% 90.8% -0.3% Brian Boucher 90.8% 89.9% +0.9% Sergei Bobrovsky 90.9% 93.2% -2.3% Ilya Bryzgalov 90.5% 91.6% -1.1%

And that has to do with a losing record in the NHL as a coach how? Since we are going in about stats on a coach while he was in a lesser league.

So a coach with a losing record is a good coach Makes sense

Over parts of 11 seasons in the NHL with the Toronto Maple Leafs (1987-88 through 1991-92 and 1998-99), Calgary Flames (1991-92 to 1993-94), Hartford Whalers (1993-94 to 1995-96), Lightning (1995-96) and New Jersey Devils (1996-97), Reese posted a 53-65-17 record with a 3.66 goals-against average and five shutouts in 174 contests. In 11 appearances in the Stanley Cup Playoffs, he has a 3-5 mark with a 4.08 GAA.

With little Philly P's on them as well?

Nobody said he would have.

They weren't forced to run for president either @radoran Well, here is to another 3 decades.

MCA died a few years back, the Beastie boys could use you to make a comeback.

No, I don't blame him for it, where did I say that? Most leaders step forward, they aren't simply chosen, That applies to all cultures. If you aren't willing try and change a problem you'll be forever stuck as part of it.

haha, Still, not wanting the "C" responsibility is pretty unbecoming of leadership qualities, If Timonen wanted it, wouldn't he have asked for it by now? He had a career year when he was named the captain of the Preds. He seems pretty content remaining a Associate captain.

I didn't say anything about it until you and 6 of your closest friends decided to constantly talk about it with your desire to obsess over semantics.

Considering this forum isn't that old, I'm sure he was a captain long before you also were a poster.

Then again, I think most Flyers fans were still in disbelieve that they even got there.

You'd need to have a leadership personality, like that of Pronger. I don't see Timonen being that leader standing at the helm of the ship the same with Gagne. Just give it to Vinny and see how he performs.

Its more or less just a designation giving to sports to indicate that play is stopped for a intermission. A Quarter is a Period of playing time and serves the same purpose, they could also call it segment 1,2,3 and it'd mean the same thing. the only thing wrong about calling it a quarter is that the game itself doesn't refer to it the same way, it however wasn't what we were discussing and therefor was simply semantics. Its like making fun of someone in an argument for grammatical errors because you don't have a real argument. I don't think you guys understand what semantics mean but it has derailed into a inane discussion about something arbitrary, where a bunch of friends from forums of yesteryear are going out of their way to agree to disagree with 1 person.

Yes, I do think 83 games is enough to establish yourself on a team for them to have reason to keep you around.

I just hate that the Flyers think the answer to their cup drought is a goalie Rask, Rinnie, Quick, Luongo, Brodeur all these guys have proven you need more than just a goalie to win a cup in the recent years, while a lower skilled goalie like Antti Niemi and Corey Crawford have won cups. I'd have rather seen Bob only because he was 47 million dollars cheaper, all of which could have been flooded into other aspects of the team that actually put points on the board.