at this point and time i'm sure there will be alot of interest in a wide variety of people that look at the canes as a team in chaos....i spoke to a friend last year that was close to the team and he said the league didn;t push for the sale of the canes so it never happened....its hard to say what is the the right answer at this point, when your standing in the middle of nowhere choosing a direction is a confusing question..............
GO CANES GO.................
No, he was with the Dallas Stars until 2008.
His first draft with the Canes would have been the 1994 players... Adam Henry, Yakubowski, Maxwell, McKechnie, etc.
That's because this excellent roster needs a decent coach to net results...
And YES he chose Merkley, but he ALSO chose Pilon, Duke, Erkamps, as well as late picks in Russ Maxwell, Watson and Hackman.
Robson will be a fantastic GM.
Merkley was rated in the top 3 in his bantam draft year he had a great season as klimchuk's center but he just never panned out... it happens lots in the bantam draft just get over it already... maybe it was fully on Preston for not developing Merkley, time will tell next season when Merkley has new start in SC at the start of the year. The kid has alot of untapped potential still.
You think Seattle wishes they had taken Morrissey or Heatherington over Hauf at #4....if u look at that draft alone looks like everyone who picked before #16 screwed up by not selecting Nicolas Petan, most likely will be the best junior player out of the whole draft class, after all they are running a junior franchise look out for the best of there franchise. Portland will most likely keep Petan til he is 20yrs old due to his size alone where the other top players like Morrissey, Lazar could be gone by the age of 19 none of the top guys will be back as a 20yr old (besides maybe Merkley). Sometimes drafting too good doesnt help u either, look at RD for instance drafting RNH if they had him this year chances are very good they would of been the class of the eastern conference. The Bantam draft is a crap shoot & comes down to coaching to develop these players as well.
So enough already about the Merkley thing, yes he didnt pan out in LETH get over it, it happens to every franchise out there.
Send some of whatever they were drinking in Lethbridge to PG and maybe we will have a coaching/GM change also. Please and thank you from a desperate PG fan.
An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
I thought Preston was a terrible coach (and much worse Gm) but the blame he gets for this team as a coach is way too much.
he certainly didn't help but this team lost games because the talent is not there. They may have some guys with shiny bantam resumes but they are not showing anything at the WHL level and for the most part there is no reason to expect them to do much better in the next couple of years.
yes this team needs a new coach but it needs some actual talent on the roster as well.