Gillis tinkered with a championship calibre club...he didn't hang his balls out and get a big fish or two to really seal the deal !
- Bullfrog77

That championship calibre team missed the playoffs 2/3 seasons before he got there, and all but one since he was canned.


Quite the dynasty he rode to the playoffs.

I managed to interpret what he was saying, must be my years of practise being a drunk.
- Reubenkincade

Well done. I’ve tuned him out the last few months

Well done. I’ve tuned him out the last few months
- CanuckDon

How much longer do you have to have the POS as your avatar?

Gillis added key pieces. Hamhuis, Malholtra, Samuellson to name a few.

We won the president's trophy 2 years in a row, didn't just take a long playoff run.
- golfingsince

Yes. Gillis had one thing he was great at....correctly identifying what the team needs or is lacking and getting the correct player to do it. He acquired 6 players for the cup run and all were dead on slam dunk fits.

Nonis had 1 thing he was smokin good at, goaltending.....acquiring Luongo in his early GMing and drafting Schneider. Did the same in TO. Both teams were set up for years.

How much longer do you have to have the POS as your avatar?
- Reubenkincade

I don’t have to have it. I haven’t posted on a computer in the last year. That’s the reason I haven’t changed it

I don’t have to have it. I haven’t posted on a computer in the last year. That’s the reason I haven’t changed it
- CanuckDon

I see. do we need to start a gofunddon campaign so you can get a new computer?
Keeping that avatar is just allowing pres4u to live on.😁

Yes. Gillis had one thing he was great at....correctly identifying what the team needs or is lacking and getting the correct player to do it. He acquired 6 players for the cup run and all were dead on slam dunk fits.

Nonis had 1 thing he was smokin good at, goaltending.....acquiring Luongo in his early GMing and drafting Schneider. Did the same in TO. Both teams were set up for years.
- SMBDragon

You are kidding, right?
The fool thought Higgins was a 2nd line winger.

I see. do we need to start a gofunddon campaign so you can get a new computer?
Keeping that avatar is just allowing pres4u to live on.😁
- Reubenkincade

I post at work and won’t use my comp. or after work on my phone. I’m never home. I use my laptop on planes and that’s it. I’m constantly on the go! Have a home office computer but it’s covered in dust. I’m back in Arizona for awhile In a couple weeks. I’ll try and murder the Trump then

Someone x two completed his first Marathon


- VANTEL

Geez someone get those guys a steak...

I post at work and won’t use my comp. or after work on my phone. I’m never home. I use my laptop on planes and that’s it. I’m constantly on the go! Have a home office computer but it’s covered in dust. I’m back in Arizona for awhile In a couple weeks. I’ll try and murder the Trump then
- CanuckDon

👍

Gillis added key pieces. Hamhuis, Malholtra, Samuellson to name a few.

We won the president's trophy 2 years in a row, didn't just take a long playoff run.
- golfingsince

Yep...plus Higgins Rome and Ehrhoff and Torres and Lapierre.

without those 7-8 additions there ain't no cup run.

Sure Gillis handcuffed the club with NTC's and poor drafting but he knew how to add pieces of need like it or hate it.

- VANTEL

Lol, typo. Winger, it should have said how long to get a winger for Horvat.

Lol, typo. Winger, it should have said how long to get a winger for Horvat.
- 1970vintage

For a minute I thought you were talking about a ball gag and horse tail butt plug but it didnt make sense.

You are kidding, right?
The fool thought Higgins was a 2nd line winger.
- Reubenkincade

He added him as a 3rd liner.

He did score 43 points in the first year of his first deal under Gillis where he made less than $2 million.

On his 2nd deal it was 4 years /$10 million. He scored 75 points in the first 2 years, hardly a crippling contract. He was a really poor fit for the team at the end, but again hardly the reason the team sucked.

He added him as a 3rd liner.

He did score 43 points in the first year of his first deal under Gillis where he made less than $2 million.

On his 2nd deal it was 4 years /$10 million. He scored 75 points in the first 2 years, hardly a crippling contract. He was a really poor fit for the team at the end, but again hardly the reason the team sucked.
- golfingsince

The team sucked because they held onto players for too long, not just Higgins, and had nobody in the system to replace the ones that were aging badly.

https://thehockeynews.com...fmZmyhYbGbdQ1w5Ygtn4RqA9I

Prospects who's stocks should clime after the U18's.

- boonerbuck

😀😄😆😂

The team sucked because they held onto players for too long, not just Higgins, and had nobody in the system to replace the ones that were aging badly.
- Reubenkincade

Yes, they went for the cup and missed.

For a minute I thought you were talking about a ball gag and horse tail butt plug but it didnt make sense.

- boonerbuck

I like your interpretation the best.

Neigh

The team sucked because they held onto players for too long, not just Higgins, and had nobody in the system to replace the ones that were aging badly.
- Reubenkincade

Gillis followed what the Flames did after their cup run in 2004...locked up the 9-10 'core guys' that got them there (with NTCs) expecting to get back to the cup final in successive years. It handcuffed the team for alot of years but if we had actually won that cup in 2011 with the additions Gillis made no one would have gave a shat anyways.

Gillis followed what the Flames did after their cup run in 2004...locked up the 9-10 'core guys' that got them there (with NTCs) expecting to get back to the cup final in successive years. It handcuffed the team for alot of years but if we had actually won that cup in 2011 with the additions Gillis made no one would have gave a shat anyways.
- LordHumungous

but you know that posting reasonable opinions violates HB's CoC, right?

Gillis followed what the Flames did after their cup run in 2004...locked up the 9-10 'core guys' that got them there (with NTCs) expecting to get back to the cup final in successive years. It handcuffed the team for alot of years but if we had actually won that cup in 2011 with the additions Gillis made no one would have gave a shat anyways.
- LordHumungous

This started out as a comparison between Quinn and Gillis Cup run teams. It quickly turned into the Gillis loyalists discussion.

Geez someone get those guys a steak...
- LordHumungous

lol. They’re on the Trevor Linden fitness program.

This started out as a comparison between Quinn and Gillis Cup run teams. It quickly turned into the Gillis loyalists discussion.
- Reubenkincade

lol I'm far from a Gillis loyalist but credit where it's due regardless of the mess he put us in.