Better without necro-bump... It is our history, in my opinion.
I always addressed for a long period of time to you very simple as LIG. Now I don't know how to address to you ? Killer Carlson sounds scary; CreaseAndAssist sounds kind of a long composite name for me. LIG name is still okay?
It seems from that list not many boarders remained from the old message board : You; IllaZilla; bbgarnet and me. MNSOTA became a part of your blog. And the other one became not active. Or maybe we missed some one from the old board who changed their names?
You made good questions.
1. I am still here, because that became so far a part of my life. It doesn't matter where I am: at work; at home; at driving between Litchfield and home; at ice fishing or river fishing(my new interest now), I am trying to watch on TV or to listen on RadioFM. Most of the time listen radio, because I like our commentators. They bring some new news, new ideas, new opinions for me.
2. That question is more complicated. But I think we are moving slowly in a right direction since Guerin became a GM. With him I do see more life for this club in comparison to what we had before. Of course, every one can make mistakes, but he makes them less than others did before. I do see more positive stuff for the team he did. And I am getting more interest to our prospects which he chose to keep Kaprizov, Boldy, Rossi, Khusnutdinov, and probably we will see also Firstov, Yurov, Ohgren, Kumpulainen in the main club too. I understand, it is a lottery, which not everyone can win in the same uniform. But who knows? And I understand also how difficult decision is to keep some veteran players by giving NMC, because that gives them some attraction to stay here at their age. And, I think, Coach and GM need them for their experience. Personally , for me, very hard position for GM to make the right contract, because it is a serious business. Without the risk we will never will drink a glass of champagne after the win. Forgot to mention about our Coach. Very smart, very risky ( I will remember till the rest of my life how he pulled our goalie in OT just to get 2 points against Nashville), he is not afraid to experiment too. That brings more intrigue and more interest to the club.
Anyway, I feel more optimistic for our future playoffs standing because we are getting a team's level better than before.