Comments for It's Pouring Rain at http://www.lightthelamp.com , comment 1 to 5 out of 5 comments http://www.lightthelamp.com Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:20:53 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.lightthelamp.com/2010-articles/january/its-pouring-rain.html#comment-296 Filatov and the Russians got to understand. This is the United States of America. You work to get your spot and make something of yourself. This ain't Russia. I'm not the biggest fan right now of H&H and I believe there were areas in this situation they could have handled better. Ultimately, this whole situation is on Filatov. He needs to grow up and be a man. - 21Jackets Tue, 05 Jan 2010 18:13:28 +0100 http://www.lightthelamp.com/2010-articles/january/its-pouring-rain.html#comment-294 Psycloud: Thanks so much! Great research! That was really insightful. Yeah, I'd heard he (Filly) was a very popular guy with his teammates, especially the younger guys, which I really believe - directly, more than indirectly - their play, since he departed. Again, thanks... - Mase1 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 14:33:11 +0100 http://www.lightthelamp.com/2010-articles/january/its-pouring-rain.html#comment-293 [quote]"Sounds like he quit because he got his feelings hurt when the C was stripped from him."[/quote] Based on the way that entire team played for the whole tournament, it wasn't an incident before the last game that caused Filatov, or the rest of the team for that matter, to turn on the coach. Had it bee just one individual, I might be inclined to blame Filatov, but for an entire team to simultaneously fail that epically, I'm inclined to believe that perhaps the coach was just a bit too much of a hardass. The second paragraph after the excerpt from The Pipeline that you quoted stated the following: [quote]"An NHL executive told me that Plyuschev was to hard lined with his players, who tuned him out. The Pipeline Show saw evidence of this during the 2008 World Junior A Challenge in Camrose when Plyuschev went ballistic several times behind the bench."[/quote] Don't get me wrong, I think he could have handled the situation here significantly better (both sides likely could have), and I'm not absolving him completely. Still, this incident probably isn't the one to call the nail in the coffin. - psycloud Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:00:39 +0100 http://www.lightthelamp.com/2010-articles/january/its-pouring-rain.html#comment-292 MTM: The TRUE voice of CBJ nation! My guess is they don't have a Wonderlic test in the NHL - otherwise, you would think a bright guy like Howson would have used it. Also, the kid (Filly) is charming and charismatic - read: he slewed the BS-o-meter on Howson, and he fell for it, hook, line and sinker. But still, Howson had to have seen through it, right? Makes one wonder if they should have pulled the trigger on a trade - as LTL has often said, Schenn for Filly - right around the time he bolted. - Mase1 Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:01:00 +0100 http://www.lightthelamp.com/2010-articles/january/its-pouring-rain.html#comment-290 "If it looked this, youre prob right" . . . . Who the hell does this kid think he is?? Sounds like he quit because he got his feelings hurt when the C was stripped from him. Im also beginning to hear more stories from people about this kid loving the bar scene a bit too much. Im done with drafting Russians as well. So now this 19 y/o kid has quit on 2 different coaches who are 3 times older than him and have probably forgotten more hockey than he will ever know. Ugh. One thing I want to know is, was there really no signs of this when we drafted him or did we not do our research enough? Tough to question Howson and his drafting research because I know he goes all out for the draft and utilizes a lot of scouts and puts a lot of stock into it. - Matt The Mask Tue, 05 Jan 2010 10:05:47 +0100