…and put it into GM Paul Holmgren’s head.
The signing of Ray Emery is a guarantee my team will be defeated in the first round of the 2010 playoffs, if they make it that far. Being squeezed against the salary cap must have sucked out the oxygen in the team’s offices too. Sure the two goalies they have are expensive and will be unrestricted free agents come July 1 but Emery is hardly a solution. The guy is a cancer despite his “experience” with helping the Ottawa Senators get to the Stanley Cup, which they lost to Anaheim. I’m just livid. He’s the worst acquisition since Peter Forsberg replaced Jeremy Roenick. The only way this deal doesn’t resemble a complete Clarke bonehead idea is the price tag, $1.5 million for one year. At least he won’t be an albatross around the team’s collective neck too long.
Will I give up hockey? No. I certainly won’t abandon my team. I will just endure another crud year and hope there’s a backup goalie who can step up his game to push Terrell Owens-on skates out of the starting position.
Meanwhile, go Red Wings.