Calgary should be ashamed of themelves.
Donny's take on the whole thing
My whole point was that they were calling him during the season and trying to get him to leave our program," Lucia said of his Star-Tribune comments. "That's what I was really disappointed about. If they want to sign him or any other player at the end of the year, that's the NHL's prerogative. In all the years I've coached, I've never had a team do that. I thought that was very unprofessional of them. We're coaching them at this level, and I think, for the most part, NHL teams should leave the player alone during the course of a season."
However the two clubs view it, the issue is not Kris Chucko. The controversy surrounding his signing simply presents an opportunity to examine the relationship between college hockey and the NHL, and the college game's place in the hockey world.
I used to have respect for Calgary as an organization, however, after this not anymore. I cheered the night they were eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs. In the future leave the kids alone until they finish their season. I think its sad how college hockey has become a revolving door. Two years and done. Sounds like a major junior team from Canada only its happening in a town near you in Grand Forks, Minneapolis, and Madison. I know its the chances you take recruiting the best talent.
I know you probably feel obligated to jump to Minnesota's defense every now and then, as I do. But I think you picked the wrong time.
ReplyDelete1. As Calgary's scouting guy mentioned in the article you linked, the Flames insisted that Jordan Leopold stay in school for his senior season. I'm sure that Lucia appreciated that, since Leopold was a driving force in that title run.
2. Red Berenson: "It's part of the business with the high-profile players, particularly with the importance of the World Junior Championship and the availability of those players. I think it's an opportunity for the general managers to go and watch the players they drafted, or players they want to draft, so once in a while you're going to get that [attempt to sign a college player mid-season], but it is pretty new. I know in Jack Johnson's case, he was not tempted to leave. He was truly flattered, but he was so focused on playing at Michigan and playing in the junior tournament. He's a confident kid, but he's not in a rush."
3. Is it really worth getting in a hissy over? Organizations are going to do what they think is best for them and for the players they own rights to. And sometimes that's not going to jive with what we think or what college coaches think.
I tend to believe that some tighter rules should be put into place regarding in-season contact, but I'm not going to hold this against the Flames.
Hissy, probably not just nothing else to write about.
ReplyDeleteGolf doesn't give a person much to talk about.
Everything is worth the Don getting into a hissy over.
ReplyDeleteHe,he,he... Laughing out loud.
ReplyDeleteLucia doesn't like tampering? That cracks me up. He doesn't want anyone contacting his players about coming to play with them? That cracks me up twice as much.
ReplyDeleteWe're talking about the highest paid coach at the program with the highest exposure. We're talking about a coach that is mega-concerned about negative press to the point that he does everything in secret. Haven't we seen what happens with powerful people who begin acting in an insular manner? It's called illogical paranoia. On one hand Lucia gripes about player tampering while apparently on the other he condones it to build his own roster. What a crack up.
Whiney Don Lucia makes me laugh.
Actually now that you brought it up, I am not so sure he didn't send his two radio guys down to strong arm Parise.
ReplyDeleteLike I said earlier, I am not a fan of the Goofs or Lucia, but I don't like the fact that Calgary tried to sign a kid in the middle of a season. That is bush league in my opinion. But DTP is right Lucia is worse than the Bush administration when comes to secrets.