Free Agency Morning Sickness
July 2, 2008
Are you scared yet?
I mean its only been three days of free agency right? There’s plenty of time to get a steal right?
NO NO NO NO. Remember the trade deadline last season? Ya, the same trade deadline that left us with our wangs flapping in the wind and a skytrain ride straight to the Surrey Central Skytrain Station of the NHL (a.k.a. not in the playoffs). We wouldn’t budge and ended up with jack squat.
That’s why I’m personally having heart palpitations right now….why? Well let’s see….
1 - Team plays deer in the headlights at the trade deadline, ends up shirtless and sober on the lawn outside of the playoffs pants party.
2 - Then ownership flies back into town, blows a gasket, and fires the first person they can think of (for the record, I was all for shaking things up a bit, and although drastic, shipping out Nonis was a great way to rock the boat), the problem was, they had no effing clue what to do next…it was a knee jerk move that took us from being shrewd to screwed in 2.5 days…
3 - Our inexperienced “players GM” then panics, realizes he needs something big to start off with a bang and get the people amped up, and offers an assload of cap space to an aging, European veteran who is still contemplating whether he even WANTS to play the damn game anymore?? (Keenan for Messier anyone?)
4 - In the meantime, I have one eye on the free agency ticker and team are going nuclear out there….and we’re busy signing Curtis Effing Sanford?
So ya, i pretty much want to punch myself in the face at my desk right now.
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