[A] Hockey People Need Not Apply

[fanof19]

say what you want about W3, but through all of his short comings, you always knew where you stood.

 

[klemmer]

You say that, till someone does it.... which I'd only be ok with if they aim it at the ref. But then we'd see the nice trend of nets enclosing the entire rink.

You missed the point. I was referring to McPimp making fans throw pucks back to save a buck.

 

[MassHavoc]

HAHAHAH yeah I missed that point, I thought you were refering to them throwing it back like the cubs fans throwing opposing HRs back.

 

[R K]

say what you want about W3, but through all of his short comings, you always knew where you stood.

Yup! The biggest difference is when you spoke with Bill you might not have liked what you heard, but you knew that's how he felt and how it was going to go. When you speak to any of the newer folks you hear what they think you want to hear, whether it be the truth or not.



There is a huge difference. Add to that Bill WAS trying to build a championship. Through out all his short comings the team that WON the Cup was Tallons, and was allowed, IE Money by Bill before he passed. Unfortunately for him, Bill, the winning came after his death. Some would say Karma, and some would say deserved, but I'm not quite sure I'm on either of those levels.



He sat behind me for years and in the later years it was only Alice his wife. I still see her from time to time, and she was always there rain, snow or shine watching the team with her blanket in the seats behind me.

 

[MassHavoc]

Can we take up a collection to buy the team while Rocky is distracted by his liquor legacy?

 

[sth]

I just want to add a bit about how McD fucked the Cubs over before he came to **** up the Hawks. He was a marketing guru for years. The guy had a gimmick for every game it seemed. Beanie Babies, floppy hats, bobble heads, his baby was the Cubs Convention which he immediately brought to the Hawks. And of course he would schedule himself a weekly appearance on Cubs games to announce upcoming gimmicks. The most dangerous place in Chicago is between McD and a camera. Pushing these gimmicks and wrigleyville he was able to get butts in seats. In 2004 when the Cubs were fading out of a playoff spot McD pushed the removal of Steve Stone from the Cubs announcing booth for daring to be critical of management. Luckily he was kept free of actual baseball decisions till the Tribune Co. rewarded him for his money making skills by naming him President in 2006. He immediately began fucking up the team. He pushed for an aging Lou Pinella as manager over Joe Girardi. He also made a significant push to sign Alfonso Soriano to an eight year 154 million dollar contract, as well as numerous other large free agent deals. Soon after he jumped ship for the Hawks leaving behind his prodigy Crane Kenny a lawyer with no baseball knowledge just like McD. Who continued destroying the Cubs until the team was sold and new management removed him from baseball operations last year.

 

[MassHavoc]

So you're saying Crane=Stan. haha. Thanks for the recap eerily similar. It's odd when the face of your organization has become the president instead of the stars.

 

[supraman]

Can we take up a collection to buy the team while Rocky is distracted by his liquor legacy?

Only if we promise to focus on profit so i can be rich

 

[R K]

I just want to add a bit about how McD fucked the Cubs over before he came to **** up the Hawks. He was a marketing guru for years. The guy had a gimmick for every game it seemed. Beanie Babies, floppy hats, bobble heads, his baby was the Cubs Convention which he immediately brought to the Hawks. And of course he would schedule himself a weekly appearance on Cubs games to announce upcoming gimmicks. The most dangerous place in Chicago is between McD and a camera. Pushing these gimmicks and wrigleyville he was able to get butts in seats. In 2004 when the Cubs were fading out of a playoff spot McD pushed the removal of Steve Stone from the Cubs announcing booth for daring to be critical of management. Luckily he was kept free of actual baseball decisions till the Tribune Co. rewarded him for his money making skills by naming him President in 2006. He immediately began fucking up the team. He pushed for an aging Lou Pinella as manager over Joe Girardi. He also made a significant push to sign Alfonso Soriano to an eight year 154 million dollar contract, as well as numerous other large free agent deals. Soon after he jumped ship for the Hawks leaving behind his prodigy Crane Kenny a lawyer with no baseball knowledge just like McD. Who continued destroying the Cubs until the team was sold and new management removed him from baseball operations last year.

Ironically I feel Mcdonough knew, that through the sale of the Cubs, his gig there was going to come to an end. It was no surprise he hopped ship so fast. To Rocky's defense some he needed someone to market this team. Bill never cared enough, nor did he allow the good folks there in marketing do their job. Well Mcdonough FIRED all but one of those, who is still there I might add. Some of them he fired literally in the middle of the night so to speak. Good people who were just never given reigns to do their jobs. Many of the marketing ideas you see were NOT Mcdonoughs. I won't go further into it, but am confident I'm on the correct path with that one. Hawks Store in Ohare, and many other ideas were there long before he arrived.



Instead he brought along his side kick Jay Blunk, who for some ungodly reason has his NAME on the fucking Cup over guys like Brian Bickell and or Rick fucking Dudley.



He then went one step further and intertwined TICKET SHAFTER and Chris Werner from ticket Shafter to have the Hawks do what he invented over at the Cubs in SCALPING their own tickets.



Now bringing that up my tickets last year were 140 a peice. The MINIMUM I could sell them, for the premium games on Click Tix was 250.00 per ticket, meaning the Hawks would make the profit on the original sale and THEN make a double profit in taking 15% of the profit on my sale. Double dipping anyone. Great scam if I must say. Very similar to the Cubs, a Major League team, SCALPING their OWN tickets.

 

[DBQHawkFan]

I think Dales plan was always to get Campbell so that part I totally dismiss. Huet on the other hand, hook, line and sinker. I could be wrong but think Dales plan all along was to have Niemi come back up Khabi. Instead Huet threw a huge wrench into the plans. The talk about Campbell was LONG before Bill passed away. That I know for fact.

I recall the whole Niemi deal. The Red Wings were hot on his trail. I believe he was bascially about to sign there. Then the Hawks put the press on. Probably by Scotty Bowman's referral. He did not want to play in the AHL and he was pretty well blocked in Detroit. I am sure those were key factors and my guess is we assured him that he would be Khabi's back-up. So he signs with us. Then we sign Huet for the splash and Niemi is told he has to go to the AHL. I don't think he was happy about that.

 

[fanof19]

Haviland fired

 

[jakobeast]

No, he was relieved of his duties.

 

[fanof19]

shit canned

 

[MassHavoc]

ate shit

 

[fanof19]

Flushed down the shitter

 

[mikita's helmet]

RIFFED!

 

[BiscuitintheBasket]

Ironically I feel Mcdonough knew, that through the sale of the Cubs, his gig there was going to come to an end. It was no surprise he hopped ship so fast. To Rocky's defense some he needed someone to market this team. Bill never cared enough, nor did he allow the good folks there in marketing do their job. Well Mcdonough FIRED all but one of those, who is still there I might add. Some of them he fired literally in the middle of the night so to speak. Good people who were just never given reigns to do their jobs. Many of the marketing ideas you see were NOT Mcdonoughs. I won't go further into it, but am confident I'm on the correct path with that one. Hawks Store in Ohare, and many other ideas were there long before he arrived.



Instead he brought along his side kick Jay Blunk, who for some ungodly reason has his NAME on the fucking Cup over guys like Brian Bickell and or Rick fucking Dudley.



He then went one step further and intertwined TICKET SHAFTER and Chris Werner from ticket Shafter to have the Hawks do what he invented over at the Cubs in SCALPING their own tickets.



Now bringing that up my tickets last year were 140 a peice. The MINIMUM I could sell them, for the premium games on Click Tix was 250.00 per ticket, meaning the Hawks would make the profit on the original sale and THEN make a double profit in taking 15% of the profit on my sale. Double dipping anyone. Great scam if I must say. Very similar to the Cubs, a Major League team, SCALPING their OWN tickets.

Ambassadors. I know that had been in the pipeline for quite some time to try and bridge the fans.

 

[Rex]

I recall the whole Niemi deal. The Red Wings were hot on his trail. I believe he was bascially about to sign there. Then the Hawks put the press on. Probably by Scotty Bowman's referral. He did not want to play in the AHL and he was pretty well blocked in Detroit. I am sure those were key factors and my guess is we assured him that he would be Khabi's back-up. So he signs with us. Then we sign Huet for the splash and Niemi is told he has to go to the AHL. I don't think he was happy about that.

If I remember correctly when we got Campbell, or were working on Campbell there was talk that Miller was going to join him the next year (his contract ended that year) and then we signed Huet, and within the next couple hours Miller signed with his team.



So I always thought it was going to be Miller/Niemi starting in 2009/2010

 

[LordKOTL]

Speaking of Hockey People need not applying:



Who's going to be the sacrificial lamb who, at the Red Carpet event, holds up the sign "ACCOUNTANTS AND SALESMEN SHOULD NOT MAKE HOCKEY DECISIONS"

 

[MassHavoc]

SHould be the New IHN shirt, I need something to replace my Commit to the Indian shirt.