Nostra-Grier, Which Finger is Sean Avery Holding Up?
December 3rd, 2008, 8:25 am
As a couple of our commenters noticed on the last post, our resident prognoticator grier has again made a perfect call. The Sharks won the not-so-emotional Ron Wilson homecoming game 5-2. After a 4-0 first period, the Sharks seemed to coast a bit, and Ron Wilson’s club continued to work as most Ron Wilson’s clubs tend to do. But the talent differential between the Leafs and Sharks was apparent throughout the game.
As far as the Avery controversy goes, you’ll have to get our take from our latest podcast. And if you can’t get enough of good radio programming, you can listen to the latest ChompTalk radio show here.
Quick note on the radio show- we will be giving away a big prize on December 14th. The winner of a Sharks trivia contest will get a free admission into a 12-week beginner skating class at Sharks ice, which is worth quite a bit of money. All you fans out there looking for a wintertime activity, time to polish off your Sharks trivia mind and lace ’em up. We’ll take the first two callers interested and pit them against each other. You’ll have one minute to answer up to 10 questions: 4 easy, 4 medium, and 2 hard. You have 11 days to cram and exercise your dialing fingers.
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With Avery acting like a clown, Morrow acting like a pirate, and Modano just being a whiny bitch, it sounds like their team cohesion problems are snowballing… and damn it’s nice to see them circling the drain!
It seems like there’s lots of bad blood… no morale… no heart. You can tell it’s affecting the whole team when even a (grudgingly admitted) stand-up guy like Turco starts commenting on Avery’s BS. It’s going to take a few major moves to clear the air and reset the Stars’ mood in the locker room, and I doubt Brett Hull has the balls or experience to do it.
Good call. But I’d say this about Brett Hull- to paraphrase a line from The Color of Money, to succeed as a GM you have to have brains and you have to have balls, and Hull has too much of one and not enough of the other.