You Are The Weakest Link - Goodbye

I probably should have been keeping up on this who's who of the Coyote world, but I haven't... lately you can't have been expecting me to. My blog and I are a mix of hot mess, but we're working on it. We're busy with other interests at the moment. Like, you know, sleeping. Whatever. I digress.

I'm going to try and do this by memory, but I can't guarantee that I won't fuck something up. If you want true news, go to the Coyotes website. This is all about opinions (some that don't make a whole lot of sense) and my own sick sense of humor. You keep coming back, though, because deep down you're all masochists and you secretly like to watch me butcher the English language and my hockey team (and yours too, most likely). Let's move along, shall we?

So far, during these wonderful days of training camp (of which I've been apart of none times) we've lost a couple goalies: Josh Tordjman and Joel Gistedt. We've lost some forwards: Jeff Hoggan, Adam Keefe, Derek Nesbitt, Simon Ferguson, Steven Goertzen, Chad Kolarik, Francis Lessard, Brett Maclean, Adam Perry, David Spina and Daine Todd and we've lost some defensemen: Logan Stephenson, Drew Fata, Dylan Reese, David Schlemko, Sean Sullivan and Sean Zimmerman. All of them have been sent to San Antonio where they'll face this same process again - some will be plucked out and kicked to the proverbial curb. Some will play in San Antonio and some will make their way back up here later in the year to play for the 'Yotes.

We've also lost Michael Stone, Mathieu Brodeur, Nick Ross, Jared [the other] Staal, Tyler Johnson, Colin Long & Kurtis Mucha to their respective junior clubs. Have no fear fans, we'll be seeing them again... just not right now.

According to my calculations (and since I'm a cheater, the updated roster on PhoenixCoyotes.com) this means we're still carrying three goalies in Bryz, Telly and Al Montoya. My money is on Montoya being sent down next. We played the whole 3-headed-goalie-monster last year, it didn't really work for us.

We're also keeping a firm grip on Keith Yandle, Zbynek Michalek (because there was always a chance he wouldn't play... *insert my over-the-top eye-rolling here*), Matt Jones, David Hale, Jonas Ahnelov, Kurt Sauer, Derek Morris, Ed Jovanovski and Ryan Lannon. I'm making no predictions here. Mostly because it's 2:30 in the a.m. and I'm not in the mood for more rambling... but also because there are a few that I would like to see go and a few I would like to see stay but my wishes are rarely taken into consideration with this club. They just don't value my opinion as highly as I do.

As for forwards, we're still swimming in 'em! Martin Hanzal (who should be back on his feet sooner rather than later after this summer's back surgery), Olli Jokinen, Dan Carcillo, Mike Zigomanis, Brian McGrattan, Todd Fedoruk, Enver Lisin, Shane Doan, Kevin Porter, Joel Perrault (concussed as of this moment), Steve Reinprecht, Daniel Winnik, Garth Murray, Viktor Tikhonov, Alex Bourret, Peter Mueller, Mikkel Boedker and Kyle Turris. *Gasp for breath here while you have the chance!*

If you know anything about me (or have EVER read this blog before) you know that I have an entirely unfounded and/or unnatural obsession with Mike Zigomanis. I want him to play every night and I want him to play well. Unfortunately, that rarely works out in my favor because he's not an elite player. Regardless, I love the guy and am super stoked that he's still around. I doubt he'll survive the next cuts (of course I could be wrong considering I haven't actually seen him play this year) but I feel like there are far too many more useful players in that list and he'll be sent back to rot in San Antonio while I pine for him here in my ridiculously expensive birthday present of a Mike Zigomanis practice jersey that I can't wear. Oh, this life.

I noticed, this year, that there were a lot more players that I didn't recognize. More often than not I found myself sitting with a blank expression on my face - "Der... who? Who the hell did they say that was?" Yeah, you should have seen me at the rookie game, I was completely effin lost. Good thing they were wearing the team's jerseys or I would have been so fucked.

There were a few other things I wanted to bring up. Now, unfortunately, I got lost on a tangent and can't remember a damn word of it. I'll be back tomorrow (or next week... you never can tell) to finish my thought processes on all things Coyotes. Until then my dears!