Monday, January 24, 2011

Ice Scoopz: Monday Evening

*-> I attempted to contact my Sens source today but no luck so far I'll push deeper for tomorrow. He was right about the Bryan Murray, Cory Clouston situation so far as Melnyk announced Sunday that he'd be keeping them in the fold till seasons end then decide. I'm still confused what Melnyk is doing with the GM situation. coaching fine, but he needs to get his GM in place for the future in place soon so they can make plans for the future. It makes no sense to let a guy make decisions for the future when he's not going to be in the picture after this season. I'd think you'd want someone in place at the deadline to start the rebuilding program. Another thing that bothered me was why hasn't he publicly said it's a rebuild from this point on. Fans need to get closure. Knowing there is plan for your favorite team is a lot better than sitting watching and waiting for some clue there could be an end to the hurting. I heard this morning that Murray has said he most likely wont be around for an advisory role as everyone is rumoring. Does that leave Tim Murray in charge as mentioned as well still? That's the only thing that makes sense at this point in time as Tim Murray is somewhat in the fold now so is he secretly planning and calling the shots behind the scene now or will they quietly let him take control with the senior Murrays help for the rest of the season? My source was right about Murray and Clouston so far.

More later tonight still really hectic for me right now, hopefully around 10:30ish.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

The rebuild has been in place since the 2007 draft when muckler was fired. Murray's fault? I don't think that's fair. He's been retooling the long term look all along, building from the net out. He knew we were going to have some bad seasons, but that's the state muckler left us in. The Heatley situation was beyond his control, Gonchar was paid market rate that lots of teams would have offered and Kovalev is believed to be Melnyks call. Murray gave us a D corps with "NHL best" potential, a potential #1 goalie (something this org has never had) and will have a franchise scorer in the draft to boot. He has handled Spezza and alfie well enough, and has stuck to his long term vision. Can't help but feel he's being victimized by bad luck and "fans" who turn their logic off and listen to the filth written in the Ottawa Sun.

CA