Missing Gabby?

by W1ldfan on Apr 12, 2010 12:17 PM CDT

Not me. Marion had a great season. I think the total was 42 goals! 44 Assists, a career high in points and I think goals as well. As the the highest paid player on the team, he delivered, pretty much all season long. He stayed healthy for the most part, ,he showed off his speed and was a sniper with that amazing snapshot when he was fed the puck. What else could Ranger fans ask for?........hhhmmmm......oh wait......I think I might know, the same things that the Wild fans always wanted from him, come through in big situations, so as a Ranger fan you would think hey our top guy's gonna rise to the occasion, afterall this game is the entire season, $7 million players raise their play in big games. OK Marion was blanked in regulation and OT, the Flyers must have really keyed in on him to eliminate him. Now the season comes down to a shootout, all the Marbles and the guy get's to shoot, the flyers cannot keep him from shooting.. What happens? Tortelinni leaves him on the bench, the Rangers lose, Gaborik is back in Slovakia by midnight.

Ranger fans can at least take solice in that they now know what Wild fans know. The guy is incredibly tallented. He has amazing speed a laser for a shot and great hands. Unfortunaltely he has the nerves of a cracked out meth-head in big moments, he folds under the weight of a big game, he is not a leader and you cannot afford to pay $7,000,000 a year to a player that does not make the WHOLE team better.

By all accounts his teammates love him, both here and in NY. At my job there are a lot of people that I like being around, enjoy their company and wish for them fantastic things. I love them like family, but in a crisis situation, I probably won't followor even listen to if our lives are on the line, they are not leaders and I think Gaborik is in the same catagory.

I am so glad the wild did not pay him that money, while we are not in the best situation, at least we are not saddled with that salary for a role player

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kind of hard to blame a player for a shoot out loss if he didn’t get to shoot in the shoot out. especially if that was the coach’s call. the argument might hold greater weight if supported by stats showing that the coach made a good decision by sitting gabby in that situation (ie showing that gabby was bellow avg in shootout situations and that their were better choices on the bench) or by showing evidence that the decision to sit gabby in the shootout was gabbies descision not the coaches.

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by the Real Thor on Apr 12, 2010 2:00 PM CDT reply actions

Lol Tortellini

Well if he kept Gabby from shooting, it’s because he has the 6th worst shootout percentage all-time league wide. Not the kind of guy you want taking the all-important shootout to try to keep the team in it…

I miss seeing Gabby play for us, but I’m glad he’s gone, cuz he clearly did not WANT to be here. We need players who WANT to play every night AND give it their all every single night, unlike Gabby who folded like origami…

So what if we don’t have his 40-something goals, we’ll have Lats’ 40 something goals! :P haha , Nah, it would be nice to have a bona-fide scorer to play with Koivu (cause Mittens is SOOOOO good…)

by JSLandry on Apr 12, 2010 2:04 PM CDT reply actions

he's 2 for 18... horrible... just horrible

by JSLandry on Apr 12, 2010 2:20 PM CDT up reply actions

Gabby's shootout record I mean

by JSLandry on Apr 12, 2010 2:20 PM CDT reply actions

As much as I dislike Gaby, his name is spelled with two "a"s. Marian. And only one “b” in Gaby, per his name that he wrote on his gloves.

Other than that, no, I don’t miss him.

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by BReynolds on Apr 12, 2010 3:41 PM CDT reply actions

Gaby?

Kinda looks weird.. oh well!

by JSLandry on Apr 12, 2010 5:12 PM CDT up reply actions

I would guess that the justification would be that there is only 1 “b” in Gaborik, but I don’t. All I know is that’s what he writes on his gloves…

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by BReynolds on Apr 13, 2010 12:11 PM CDT up reply actions

Point being...

..I think that if you aregoing to sign a player for one eighth of your total salary cap money. i ,would want him to deliver in the BIG games, in the BIG situations. In eight seasons here, he delivered in a meaningless game against the Rangers, who were impressed enough to give him 7.5 million a year. In big games especially playoff games the guy disapears. For the money the Wild offered to keep him here, I want a guy that delivers when it counts and your top payed player should pay dividends through the rest of the lineup. I would argue that Owen Nolan, dollar for dollar, provided more value for the wild than Gaborik ever did.

by W1ldfan on Apr 12, 2010 3:53 PM CDT reply actions

I think Gabby was about as valuable a ranger there was

On many occasions this year Gabby scored the only goal for his team to win it 1-0, If Gabby had an off night, they lost, simple as that. Maybe he didn’t deliver in the big nights, but even at 7 million, you CANNOT rely on just one guy. That’s what they did with Iginla in Calgary. The guy gets all the flak for the team’s offensive woes when he did his absolute best night in and night out. One guy does not make a team, period.

by JSLandry on Apr 12, 2010 5:10 PM CDT reply actions