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Posted 24 June 2012 - 01:08 PM
Posted 24 June 2012 - 01:18 PM
Nick is leaving. Would he leave if it looked like it might very well wreck this team, i.e. if Holland, in their recent talks, gave him no reason to think he's not ready to go balls-out this summer?
As for the specific topic at hand - nah, I don't think this summer will make or break or define his legacy.
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 01:25 PM
Will Ken Holland's legacy be judged on how and what he does this off season? He has never in his time as a GM of the Red Wings had to replace one of the best defenseman to ever play the game, to find a replacement for Brad Stuart, this all after losing Brian Rafalski a great puck moving defenseman just a year ago. When you combine his holes on defense with needing to reload the offense as well this will be a huge off season for the Wings and for Ken Holland. Gone are the pre cap days of simply buying the best team the owner can afford. I think Kenny is a great GM but this could be what he's remembered for. Thoughts?
He will be remembered for two decades of awesomeness. A bad offseason this year would result in minor blemishing, a good offseason would keep him held as the league's best.
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 01:58 PM
If Holland gets one of Parise or Suter and we get a Cup, he will be hailed as a genius for getting the right one. If we don't get a Cup, many will be second guessing him and saying he got the wrong one.
If both go for insanely high prices and he just failed to overpay, some will say it was a shrewd move and others will decry him for not trying hard enough.
These are not all people, of course, but it seems like a lot of people have a "what have you done for me lately?" mentality.
Look at Rafalski. He was hailed, then scorned, then respected in retrospect.
I don't think that the moves Holland makes this summer will seal his legacy, but he has a good opportunity to add pieces we need to get another Cup or two.
If he does well, and we get at least one Cup, people will use this summer to make a case for his greatness, but I wouldn't say that when we look back it will difinitively make or break him.
EDIT: Unless he gets Parise, Suter, and trades everyone we don't like for someone a jillion times better and signs them cheap. Then it will make him the greatest, but I don't see that realistically happening. Just had to add it for completeness of thought.
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 02:17 PM
Posted 24 June 2012 - 02:26 PM
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 03:28 PM
Remember, he was also assistant GM for 3 years, and director of amatuer scouting for 7 before that. He played a significant role in building the team he "inherited". He's also made some big moves that people consider "failures" just because they didn't result in a Cup. Hossa, Hatcher, Clark/Samuelsson/Ranford, Cujo, Lang... He's also facing an uphill battle. We may need some big signing or trade, but that doesn't make doing it any easier. There's one real impact defenseman who might be available, and about 20 teams with the desire and ability to make a good offer for him. We have some assets to trade, but that doesn't mean any teams with the players we want will make those players available or be interested in what we can offer.
Fact is, if Red Wings fans judged other teams or GMs by the same standard Kenny has to live up to, they'd all be considered abject failures. We just lost the best defenseman of our generation, plus Stu, Rafi last year. Our stars are in their 30s. We haven't had any high draft picks during his tenure. We've dealt with the loss of stars and key roleplayers, like Konstantinov, Hasek, Yzerman, Hull, Fedorov, Robitaille, Shanahan, Chelios, Draper, Maltby, Osgood, Fischer, and more without needing to rebuild. And we are still talking about making moves to keep us a Cup contender rather than about rebuilding. That says alot more about Kenny than anything that might happen July 1st or afterward.
But if we don't make any big moves, and Kenny says, like last summer or the deadline, "We wanted to make some moves, but could find one that fit. But we like our team." everyone will just jump on the "we like our team" bit. As if all the best FAs offered to play here for free and every other GM offered to trade us their best players for our worst and Kenny turned them down. It's like half this board thinks the rest of the league has to get Kenny's permission before they can do anything, and the only reason we haven't done more already is because we didn't want to.
Posted 24 June 2012 - 03:32 PM
I don't know about make it or break it, but I think this is the biggest test of his career as GM.
I trust him to make this team competitive though and our prospects are only getting better.. We're going to be competitive next year without a doubt and make a good cup run. No worries
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 03:45 PM
I've been pretty critical of Holland's moves (or more specifically, lack thereof) when it appears the Wings are stale and in need of a wakeup call. I feel he's hung on to some players for too long (Chelios, Maltby, Holmstrom, and now Bertuzzi) at the expense of critical NHL development time for some of the younger players, I think he lets prospects sit in Grand Rapids for too long--Brendan Smith should have been with the Wings for most, if not all, of last season and basically been Nick Lidstrom's shadow, playing with him in all situations (what better way to learn??), and I can't take him seriously when he says he expects his team to compete for the Stanley Cup every year, but there are no repercussions for players who woefully underperform when the team falls short (i.e., nobody "essential" gets traded away, which sends a message to all remaining players).
I can't give credit to Holland (as GM) for the '97 or '98 Cups, as he was in the process of being handed that team just as they reached the top of the league. The '98 team was on a mission after the limo accident. The '02 Cup, he'll get credit, but he had Ilitch's open bank vault and fit the right pieces into place. The '08 Cup and '09 final, that's all him. 21 straight playoff appearances is very impressive. But the last 4 Cup champs were teams that missed the playoffs in the first season after the lockout, and 3 of the 4 Conference finalists this year missed the playoffs that season. Those teams have had better chances to restock their systems with higher draft picks.
In my opinion, Holland cannot afford to miss out on the best players available, whether it's through free agency or trade. Time for change, time for improvement.
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 03:50 PM
Agreed. This off-season is probably one where the impact of his work will be the biggest we have seen in years. His usual "we're happy with what we have" mentality won't apply because there are glaring holes and a ton of cap space to fill it up with.
I don't know about make it or break it, but I think this is the biggest test of his career as GM.
Just looking at his record, he seems very careful about overspending. Some examples include Bertuzzi (after first stint) or Hossa. It'll be interesting to see if he passes on a big name because he's worried about overpaying. He has always said that his philosophy is to have a dedicated nucleus of players and this is the first time we've seen a spot open up in that core with Lidstrom leaving. That makes me think he'll be more willing to go to the bank on at least one player that he thinks will be a good long-term investment.
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 04:20 PM
Not who'd you have thought thou..............but will do a job until Kenny gets Shea next season
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 04:28 PM
Let's be honest, Scotty Bowman had more say than Holland in putting together the '97 and '98 Cups, in '02 we had the Yankees on ice in the non-cap era and Scotty Bowman influence, and then in 2008, we still had the Scotty Bowman influence and many of the original guys that Scotty Bowman helped bring along. And I can't say that it's not interesting that we haven't done as well in the offseason at signings or during the season with trades since Bowman left the organization. Maybe he had nothing much to do with it at that point, but it's none the less intriguing to me. He goes to Chicago the following season, they sign Hossa long-term (which Holland should've and could've done) and they win the Cup in 2010. (Yes, I know the Chicago argument is a stretch...)
But in any event, Holland is clearly setting up his own legacy at this point and has been since the shadow of Scotty Bowman left for good prior to the summer of 2009 I believe. That was a terrible offseason for us, much like every one since. We've not gotten past the 2nd round since then either. We lost in the 1st round last season! The signing of Franzen long-term (especially considering the Hossa angle) is looking more and more questionable. He has to basically replace the core of our defense, no longer building around one of the greatest players in history, but around Kronwall, who's a good to great player at times no doubt, but he's no Lidstrom. Howard had a great year last year up until injuries (and likely made the skaters look a lot better than they were for much of the season) and he never fully got back to form, but if he struggles this year (you never know with goalies...) coming off that funk hanging around all summer, he's suddenly got a starting goalie issue on his hands too.
Bottom line, he's got a lot to prove this summer, and if he fails to put a competitive team on the ice, we're likely going to be stuck in a rut for awhile. Dats and Z aren't getting any younger either and our young forwards aren't goal scorers. Given the huge likelihood for struggles on D, the mild uncertainty surrounding a younger goalie who still hasn't fully proven himself and an offense that struggled to score goals when it counts most last year, Holland is going to need a miracle to come out looking clean. And if the legend is worth it's while, maybe he'll pull one out of his pocket. But at this point, it's likely that anything less than signing Suter and Parise is going to be viewed as a failure, because you need both of them to come close to making up for losing a guy like Lidstrom at both ends, and Lids only played D! And even if he secures them both, he still needs another 2/3 defensemen and a solid backup goalie with more NHL experience so Jimmy can get some breaks and stay healthy and positive.
I'm hoping for the best, but I wouldn't be shocked if this was an ugly offseason. I also wouldn't be shocked if Ken Holland wasn't the Wings GM in 1-2 years. If he blows it and we don't make the playoffs, I could see him being done. If it happens again the year after, he better be fired.
It's time for Holland to prove he can do more than be the first guy to sign superstars to long-term creative contracts that circumvent the cap. We'll know a lot more by next Monday.
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 04:40 PM
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 06:30 PM
This right here.
I don't know about make it or break it, but I think this is the biggest test of his career as GM.
Its not a make or break for him. He really has had more success than any other GM in the last 15 years.
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 07:17 PM
He isn't the aggressive GM,but neither is stupid not to act when he needs to.
You can't replace Lidstrom,that's obvious,but all this situation reminds me a bit on Schneider's departure.
Did Ken act then?Yes by signing Rafalski so I'm optimistic he'll do the same with Suter
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Posted 24 June 2012 - 09:49 PM
I think that Holland's "legacy" was already cemented by the '08 Cup. To me, that Cup was so essential in shaking the label that the Red Wings were the Yankees of the NHL. To replace a generation of players like Yzerman, Fedorov, Shanny, etc. without the aid of high draft picks or limitless spending proved that there was more to the Wings than just money.
I get a little annoyed when people refer to any move that doesn't result in a Cup as a failure. Like Hossa in '09. Hossa carried the team through an inconsistent regular season, then played through a significant injury in the playoffs, while Datsyuk did the same, but only scored 1 goal in 16 games (IIRC).
The fact is that Cup winning teams like PIT, CHI, and LA could NOT have been built if those teams drafted from the position the Wings have from the early 90's to the present. Holland's ability to find and replace talent against those odds may not last forever, but don't ever forget that it worked for a damn long time.
Edited by StormJH1, 24 June 2012 - 09:49 PM.
Posted 24 June 2012 - 11:23 PM
1. Team Has Gone downhill (2 round exist twice and 1 round exit)
Are big UFAs still willing to come here seeing, how we are tied between retooling and building? This offseason will answer that.
2. Can he change his philosophy?
Its nice we finally added size through the draft, but we do need immediate help come July 1, so he will have to adress that too.
I am extremely looking forward to it because some moves will give us a clear picture on that questions. Personally I think Shero is damn close.
Posted 25 June 2012 - 12:30 AM
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Posted 25 June 2012 - 01:03 AM
I think his legacy is set, the 08 cup and 09 cup finals showed, that we are more than just a big spending team able, to find gems in the later rounds. Kenny was the best GM for almost a decade and I will always respect him for that, but having said that this summer will be a big test for him and our organization going forward:
1. Team Has Gone downhill (2 round exist twice and 1 round exit)
Are big UFAs still willing to come here seeing, how we are tied between retooling and building? This offseason will answer that.
2. Can he change his philosophy?
Its nice we finally added size through the draft, but we do need immediate help come July 1, so he will have to adress that too.
I am extremely looking forward to it because some moves will give us a clear picture on that questions. Personally I think Shero is damn close.
Shero isn't even in the same stratosphere as Ken Holland.
That's not to say he's not a good GM, but he took over a team that had drafted in the top 5, 4 years in a row, and had an elite young core already assembled for him. His only real responsibility is to keep it together and he already lost his first ever draft pick with the team leaving Dustin Jeffrey as the only Ray Shero draft pick currently playing for the Penguins.
When he transitions the Pens from the Crosby/Malkin era into their next without missing the playoffs or falling below the 100pt threshold then maybe we can start to compare him to Holland.
Edited by FlashyG, 25 June 2012 - 01:03 AM.
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What quality of life have we lived that's so great?
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Cuomo last week floated a proposal to split profits from new casinos. Ninety percent of the money would go to the state for education; 10 percent would go to local tax relief.
It's a careful calculation to sell the new casinos as a way to fund education. Schools need money, and the billions already poured into education doesn't seem enough to sustain rising costs such as pension payments and health care premiums gobbling school budgets.
But any community salivating over the opportunity to land a casino – and its slots revenue – ought to go into this with eyes wide open.
For those towns that think a casino will be a budget boon, recent history has left this lesson: Don't bet on it.
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Myspace. a place for scensters and hipsters to blog about random pointless shit. and no one cares.
*points to a hipster talking down the street with thier head down, silently cursing society for not understanding thier outrageously awesome attire*
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The act of laying face-down on a string hammock and putting your member through one of the holes and having a girl suck on your member.
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ALBANY – Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo has been asked, in a variety of ways, a fairly simple question over the past several months: Would he rather see Republicans or Democrats control the State Senate?
But in a variety of ways, the governor has not offered a direct answer. Nonetheless, through both his actions and some of his own words, the Democratic governor appears to have made clear that the last thing he wants is Democrats running the State Senate.
This is a matter-of-fact view that many Republicans and Democrats – and some political observers – in Albany share.
"I think he needs the Senate Republicans. He needs them for his policy agenda, assuming the Republican Senate acts as a check on the more free-spending, interest group-dominated Democratic Assembly," said Douglas Muzzio, a political scientist at Baruch College.
In the GOP, Cuomo has found allies willing to help him stay to the right of the Democratic-led Assembly, particularly on fiscal matters. Even on some major social matters, they have helped him – or did not stand in his way – when he picked off four Senate Republicans to help pass last year's gay marriage rights law.
There is a reason Albany has not featured the chaos it saw a couple of years ago, and it is not just because Cuomo is governor.
The stars have aligned so that Democrats and Republicans realize it is better to get along. Impasse, in the end, hurts incumbents in power – as Democrats saw when they lost the Senate two years ago.
"I believe the governor likes the working relationship we have. I think he wants us in control. He sees that the last two years, we've partnered with him on probably 80 percent of what we think is important to move the state forward," said Sen. Thomas Libous, a Binghamton Republican and head of the Senate Republican Campaign Committee.
Chaos and governing do not go hand-in-hand, as witnessed by the previous two gubernatorial administrations. Gone the past two years have been the legislative gridlock and dysfunction, political coups and their aftermath, and the steady and long lines of lawmakers facing corruption charges.
Some Democrats say Cuomo is agnostic when it comes to Senate partisan control. He wants what will help him achieve his political and governmental goals. And if that means cutting Democrats out of key, sensitive budget talks the past two years, few were surprised.
If it meant cozying up to vulnerable Republicans facing re-election, like Buffalo's Sen. Mark Grisanti, few were surprised by that, either. And if it meant approving new GOP-friendly district lines for the November elections, chalk it up to a desire to keep a framework in place for a governing system that seems to be working.
For Cuomo, it's been the best of both worlds. The Assembly, led by a contingent of New York City-based Democrats, keeps him tied to his party's roots on some issues, like hiking taxes on millionaires.
And the Senate Republicans have been reliable partners in helping him appear moderate to even right-of-moderate on everything from state finances to criminal-justice matters.
It only takes a memory stretching back two years for Albany to recall the problems during the one term when Democrats held control of the Senate. "Democrats in the Senate proved to be particularly ineffective and incompetent, and in a sense untrustworthy on several levels. You don't necessarily want them as allies," said Muzzio.
Few Democrats in the Senate, fearful of the consequences of taking on the Cuomo machine in their own party, have stepped out of line to criticize the governor – even when he broke a campaign promise and ended up approving new legislative district lines that critics called an exercise in gerrymandering to help GOP Senate incumbents.
One regular critic, though, has been Sen. Ruben Diaz, a Bronx Democrat. His latest missive questioning Cuomo's Democratic Party credentials came last week after Cuomo endorsed a Hudson Valley Republican in a Senate re-election contest.
"So [what] about Governor Cuomo – the Big Cheese – who is New York state's Democratic Party leader? Doesn't he have a responsibility to be true to the Democratic Party in New York State? Doesn't he have a responsibility to support Democrats?" Diaz wrote in an email sent around to reporters and lawmakers last week.
Diaz noted that the top leadership of New York State is all white male. He said a Democratic takeover of the Senate could change that and help an African-American or Latino get elected majority leader of the Senate. To that end, he accused Cuomo of "working against" efforts for Democrats to retake the Senate and to put a minority in a position of power.
Sen. Michael Gianaris, a Queens Democrat who runs the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, said Republicans were at their most cooperative with Cuomo up until this spring, when he approved new legislative district lines, boundaries that largely favor the GOP in next month's elections.
Since then, Gianaris said, GOP senators have blocked efforts, backed by Cuomo, to hike the state's minimum wage or to get talks going on changing incumbent-friendly campaign finance laws or on gun-control initiatives.
"Only a Democratic majority in the Senate is going to give him the accomplishments he is seeking on those issues," Gianaris said.
Cuomo does not want the Senate elections to shape an image as a partisan-first governor.
"I don't want to tell a person in any district that you should elect a Democrat and you should elect a Republican," he said last week.
Cuomo, without being asked, did go out of his way to criticize Democrats who don't agree with him on issues.
"I'm not going to support bringing in a legislator who I know is trying to undo what we just spent two years doing. I don't care if you call them a Democrat, or Republican, or whatever," Cuomo said.
The governor did not elaborate, but his aides have made clear, for instance, that he will not back Democrat Mike Amodeo over Grisanti because Amodeo criticized his property tax cap and government pension-reduction measures.
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Proteome Sciences and the Buck Institute for Research on Aging will collaborate on the development of mass spectrometry-based breast cancer assays that identify post-translational changes in estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) indicative of resistance to anti-estrogen therapy.
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Proteome's deal with the Buck Institute comes just a week after the U.K.-based firm announced a collaboration with the Moffitt Cancer Center. This partnership is focused on developing mass spectrometry-based laboratory tests that measure signaling and repair pathway proteins in tumor biopsies, also to help guide individualized treatments and monitor drug efficacy.
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The satirical website The Onion posted a tweet to Twitter on Oscar night that can only be described as stunningly offensive. One of their writers thought it was OK to call 9-year-old Oscar nominee Quvenzhane' Wallis the C-word on Twitter - and no, it wasn't the word "cute," it was that other c-word that rhymes with "hunt."
"Everybody else seems afraid to say it, but that Quvenzhané Wallis is kind of a c**t, right?" Read the tweet which was quickly taken down an hour after it ignited a firestorm of criticism.
I am a grown woman and far from a prude or anal retentive, but that particular C-word always offend me. It's base, vile, and offensive and to use it referring to a child is abusive. What is wrong with that writer? Weren't there enough adults at the Oscar to poke fun at?
Which brings up these important questions: When does satire go too far, or is any and everything fair game? Do some comedians hide being satire to be offensive, racist, prejudice, homophobic, sexist, misogynistic? Comedians like Bill Maher, Tracy Morgan, Jamie Foxx, Martin Lawrence, Gilbert Gottfried and others have caused quite a bit of controversy with their brand of humor, and some had to backpedal profusely and apologize for stuff they said while performing. Lawrence's "Saturday Night Live" jokes were so sexually explicit, they got him a lifetime ban from the show, and Gottfried's 2011 joke on Japan's earthquake-tsunami got him fired by Aflac.
I am all for free speech and am very leery of censorship, so there is a delicate balance to maintain here. Artists must be given creative reign to create, but a certain responsibility comes with those mighty swords - the tongue and the pen. In the age of social media, where everyone fancies themselves a critic, a comedian, a writer, a commentator or a pundit, the balance can go askew real fast. Lines are now blurred and in some cases, completed erased.
Though CEO of The Onion Steve Hannah has since apologized for his staffer's abusive tweet and promised swift disciplinary actions, they have erased my humor. On Sunday night, The Onion did stink to high heaven. I have found much of their work hilarious before, but this time they stepped way over the line. You see, an apology is nice, but in the age of the Internet, once it's out there in cyberspace, it cannot be erased with an "I'm so sorry." The tweet has been taken down but every media outlet, blog and social network has it. It is here to stay. How do her parents explain what it means and why she was called that?
I hope her family is able to keep this Twitter abuse from sullying the memory of Quvenzhane being the youngest Oscar nominee.
Below is the apology delivered by Hannah via Facebook on Monday.
"On behalf of The Onion, I offer my personal apology to Quvenzhané Wallis and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for the tweet that was circulated last night during the Oscars. It was crude and offensive—not to mention inconsistent with The Onion's commitment to parody and satire, however biting.
No person should be subjected to such a senseless, humorless comment masquerading as satire.
The tweet was taken down within an hour of publication. We have instituted new and tighter Twitter procedures to ensure that this kind of mistake does not occur again.
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Miss Wallis, you are young and talented and deserve better. All of us at The Onion are deeply sorry.
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quote: A tablet would be a much more useful tool for the students to have.
quote: Also, if the app is cross-platform, why do they insist on giving the kids Windows devices?
quote: The article didn't really go into detail, so I am wondering if these are required? What if you already have a windows phone? What if you already have a different phone? What if you don't have AT&T? Where are the facts that this article desperately needs?
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