re nhl team leaders in in apr ists ists ca dchhabra stpl ists ca deepak chhabra writes implicitly you are assuming that goals scored against winnipeg with selanne on the ice can be blamed on him roger he is a forward winnipeg has a lousy defensive record anyway let s put it another way john cullen s is terrible what s your excuse for him that his powerplay points don t count neither do selanne s are you comparing cullen to salami i would say that that is valid if winnipeg is such a lousy defensive team then why the hell does salami stand around the other team s blueline when the puck is in his own end the object of the game is not to feed selanne it is to win and feeding selanne does not contribute in any meaningful way to winning knowledgeable hockey observers the world over would agree that feeding selanne so he can score does contribute in a meaningful way to winning excuse me are the jets playing hockey let me check yes but just barely they have allowed more goals than they have scored sounds an awful lot like salami s to me sounds like they would be just as well off or better if he played the solid two way game that our friends in finland claim he is capable of but if he did that he wouldn t be chal lenging for the league lead in goals would he the bi planes might be challenging for first however you re worried about teemu when you have glenn anderson on your team now let s see you have compared timo to anderson and cullen who s next mike foligno we don t know what selanne does best we do know what jet s management wants and again the object of the exercise is not to allow selanne to do what he does best it is to win hockey games what he does best is score so i refer you to my comment above some of our finnish friends who have watched him play claim that he can play a solid two way game i would have to say that this style of contribution would be more conducive to winning or don t you think so as it is now selanne is a grandstanding goal suck did you see the way he parades around with his arms outstretched after scoring a goal you would think the messiah had returned nope didn t see it i was too busy watching foligno jump up and down after his goal i don t believe it you did compare him to foligno and i honestly hadn t read this far it would help if you used a little discrimination in your thinking your contributions would be more highly valued if we could see that you weren t trying to be merely argumentative cordially as always rm roger maynard maynard ramsey cs laurentian ca
