Brandon

I was listening to a podcast last night with Bruce Prichard talking about Gene Okerlund. What they brought up was back in the day when the wrestlers were shooting promos they would only tell them where they were fighting and who it was against and everything else was completely ad libbed. Bruce said Mean Gene was the best because they literally let the guy do his own shtick and had absolutely nothing scripted. Fast forward Gene comes back for the 25th anniversary of Raw and couldn't believe how many writers/producers they had and how the wrestlers had to all follow a script. I miss the days where the wrestlers own personalities would come through with the characters they played. The forced stuff just seems so awkward and so bland..

My main point was because a few fellows on here boasted about the main reason the team struggled was the coach when for myself and a few others thought it was more so the players and the GM...

Just a kind reminder for the two or three funny guys on here who insisted that Edmonton is a vastly different team after the coaching change... I just want to point out that Ken Hitchcock's coaching record is 10- 9 - 2 while Todd McLellan was 9-10-1

I will assume that their is a considerable amount of people like myself who loved watching wrestling as a kid and then once again when Stonecold and the Rock were on top. For myself I stopped watching because it catered to little children and everything was so bland and vanilla. I think they could re-capture a lot of people who stopped watching if they could provide some kind of decent product that has at least a tiny bit of edge to it.

I can remember going to games and seemingly KD Williams was in on every single play on defense and so many tackles at the line or at a loss.... the guy was definitely a playmaker.

I know it's been a long time but back when Bret Hart left WWE he took a then monster deal of 2.5 million per year (compared to the 1.5 WWE was paying him), with Shawn Micheals being jealous because he was only getting 750 000. Crazy how times have changed.

Is that 3.5 million per year or over a 5 year period?

If TNA can survive without a billionaire then I'd imagine this can also survive. All they will need to do is avoid bringing in old has beens like Russo, Cornette, Bischoff that would be a good start.

Floyd made that look easy. So what's the count down before Jon Jones tests positive again and gets stripped of the LHW title for the 4th time?

Make a trade because they lose two in a row? If they lose three do we blow it up and do a full rebuild?

I think the whole getting mad at the fans because they booed didn't help fans giving him the benefit of the doubt. Nichols isn't egotistical like some of the boneheaded other QB's.. but it would be refreshing to take some accountability.

Which is a shame because it wasn't only death matches , some of the most entertaining wrestling I ever watched was when guys like Rob Van Dam and 2 Cold Scorpio and Jerry Lynn would put on amazing matches without the need of barbed wires and blading...

As much as a creep as he is... the man sure can act...

I read that some of the fighters didn't find out about the move until after the media reported it... Apparently the move will cost them 5 million expected from the loss of revenue at the gate...

This isn't anything new , backyard wrestling for some reason attracts some people and they used to do the most ridiculous stunts for god knows what reasons. I used to like ECW but wasn't a big fan of the ridiculous dives by New Jack. I guess some people get off on watching people nearly die.

Just a random thought, would a Netflix or Crave have any interest in a wrestling show? They green light so much other garbage why not have wrestling?

Odd that you say that when Paul Maurice said Helle was rock solid and the main reason they won last night. They spoke on the radio this morning about how good Helle was as well. The only guy that was getting dumped on was Laine for all of his give aways.

I didn't watch the game but did Buff at least lay into Kane for a few big hits? Also is Helle the new guy that we are piling on? He made 41 saves and he should be benched now? My only concern is the team seems to be much to laid back after scoring a goal and also during the last minute of periods. It always seems that the other team scores at least one goal with under a minute left in the first two periods...

I thought the Hellboy trailer looked like a lot of fun, I don't know why they couldn't' of brought back Perlman though?

Vs Ottawa

I want to believe that package video is real....

I only went to one game this season, it was very clear that Nichols had many guys wide open and simply did not see them. He also was very hesitant on making throws and played scared IMO , reminded me a lot of Drew Willy after he was banged around and shell shocked. Streveler went in and instantly found targets not named Harris and instantly the team started to move down the field. Perhaps some folks on here with season tickets can shed more light on what they have seen? I didn't see many odds and sods this year when the offense wasn't moving and where Nichols was not pointed out for being the main reason for the issues.

I'm not sure if it's the same but in MMA some guys make crap loads more money fighting outside of the UFC because they can get their own sponsors and control their schedule and make tonnes more doing their own thing.

They would still have to administer the basic tests since you could still blow a false positive (keto diet).

It's embarrassing considering the club continually said he wasn't being let go...