Last summer detroit pulled a Rangers and just signed the most expensive guy out there without seeing who would be best for the team (Belfour would have been the better bet that year). I also think Legace would make a good starter

oh well, now detroit sucks

I Criticize Holland for a couple reasons.

1. Because over the years he has always taken a here and now mentality with his team and within a year or two the here and now will be retired and he will have in no way prepared for life after Steveie Y and Co.

2. He along with most Detroit fans have used Cujo as a scapegoat to cover the fact that such a offensive powerhouse shot blanks in the first round last year. I mean he won 34 games, had a Goals against average of under 2.50 and a save percentage over 910 on an offensve first team, thats pretty good. When the Redwings with their hall of fame roster can’t win 2 goal games its not the goalie that you should look at.

3. Holland is as bad as Sather, but his winning record makes it OK. Holland has bought and sold players for years and as long as it leads to a stanley cup no one thinks twice about it. I’m not trying to defend Sather at all, Its guys like him Holland and the Stars Owner that are ruining the NHL. (I admit that has nothing to do with the current topic, but its just something that bugs me.)

Anyways I guess what I’m saying is that Holland was screwed either way, unless Hasek really meant what he said when he said he only wanted to play for detroit, but what are the odds of that, really?

I understand that their is an air, a aura around having Hasek as your goalie. It was the same way with Roy. But Hasek is 39, has sat out a year and played defence in a rollar hockey league. Yes he has done ok this season so far (if you ignore tonight) but really I dont think that this years Hasek could have saved last seasons playoff redwings. And I really think that having Cujo now playing behind a defence first redwing team would be better than having this seasons Hasek trying to play on an offensive first denver team. And I think that if (when) Cujo suits up for the Aves he will shine because it will be like playing for the Leafs (high number of shots, run and gun, weak defense) that kind of game is what he trives on, and Holland will be paying probably, at the very least, 3 million a season, for the next 2 seasons, to watch Cujo come back to haunt him.

At least if he would have let Hasek go he wouldnt have to pay part of the salary of the goalie he will face in the playoffs.

Let’s see… the Wings do not take Hasek back

Hasek become a UFA (I think)

Where does he end up? My guess is Colorado!

Holland did not take Hasek back because he was stupid and wanted to carry a lot of extra salary. He did it to keep him from going some place else and coming back to haunt him.

Can you imagine Colorado with a Hasek anywhere near his old form?

As far as Holland goes, you are missing a very important aspect of this. If the Wings did not take Hasek he becomes an unrestricted free agent I believe…

Hmmm, if you are Ken Holland do you *really* want Hasek going to Colorado?

The ranger fans claim that Dunham is a better goalie and that they are comfortable with him leading them to an early tee time, besides if sather added cujo to his mix of cast off misfit ex-superstars i think it would be the move that would cost him the last shred or respect he has and would cost him his job.

The flyers are, yet again, going with a second tier goalie in hopes that they will be lead to the promise land, and unless Clarke can get rid of Leclair Recchi or Premeau I dont see him adding any of Cujos salary onto his payroll.

If by December the AVes are looking for a goalie I dont think that Holland has the nerve to trade a goalie that he has dicked around to his chief rival.

I think that the islanders are the only team that would even consider it, and if they did it would only be after Wonderboy fell flat on his face, something that could very well never happen.

Plus Boston is saying in “Raycroft and Potvin we trust”

Throw Burke into the mix as a goalie who will, at some point, be shopped with a much lower price tag, a shorter contract, and as high a reputation and really i dont see anyone calling Holland.

Holland has had alot of success with his team over the years but it has been at the cost of the long term strenght of his team. And really I feel like the Cujo/Haske fiasco is something that is really

I’ve been saying for years that Cujo sucks – and he does, but now his sucking has come home to hurt the Wings.

Ken Holland, no matter what your opinion of him is, was an ass to sign Cujo. Cujo bearly earned the money he was collecting in Toronto and has never won anything and is still on the path to oblivion.

The Wings called him up from his minors stint because Holland knows that no NHL team will be interested in an over paid minor-leaguer (take note Jim Rutherford).

The Wings will have to eat just about all of Cuo’s salary plus accept virtually nothing in return for Cujo if he is to be more than an over-priced backup in Detroit this year.

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