Post by Flames GM (Beamer) on Oct 18, 2019 7:29:18 GMT -6
Beamer - Our interview today brings us to last year's champ...Will. Welcome Champ....let's begin. Question 1. How do you see your team doing this year in SCD?
Will - "I am just focused on my week 1 match up vs. Rangers".
Beamer - Good answer...ya don't want to look too far ahead. If you do, you know Heller will jump all over you in Week 1. Question 2. With the previous question in mind...who's your choices for both SCD and IRL NHL finalists?
Will - We are just worried about the Canes brand of hockey in SCD we don't concern ourselves with anything other then the Canes brand ... IRL Canes vs. Oilers in finals you herd it here first !!! I was thinking more the Oilers take IRL but I could just see that team shocking for some reason and it's no fun taking the favorites.
Beamer - Well....you pulled a Tampa Bay answer....that's okay. We all know there's a boatload of teams gunning for you. Question 3...last year the IRL Hurricanes did a few different, out-of-the-box things like donning the Hartford Whalers classic jerseys, playing Brass Bonanza and of course the Storm Surge after wins . Your thoughts on that...Good? Bad? Anything else that they can do to top all that?
Will - Well generally I'm a hockey traditionalist (don't get me started on how much I hate instant replay). At first I thought the Storm Surge was dumb and disrespectful. As time went on though, in a market like that, it was bringing put the fans and making the Canes relevant in their own market so I thought that was good. As for the Hartford stuff, I think it's dumb because it's in the past and has nothing to do with Carolina. What's next, the Coyotes wearing the vintage Jets jerseys vs. The Winnipeg Jets? Or maybe Winnipeg will wear the Thrashers jerseys that game?
Beamer - Ooo...not sure I like that take...long live the Whale!!!!! (And Brass Bonanza). I agree though....Jets stay with Wpg franchise.....Yotes...well they can move to KC, Houston or Quebec for all I care. Question 4. What's your favorite thing to order from the Olive Garden? And more importantly, what are you buying me for dinner?
Will - My favorite thing from Olive Garden is the free bread!!! Its like adding an undiscovered stud from the waiver wire and it cost your team nothing!!! (Cigar face) For you Beamer you can have anything you want from the menu for letting me win it all last year !!! (Sunglasses face)
Beamer - Love that answer....you know me well it seems...food is the answer to my heart. Well, you did earn that victory and it was in part to your astute waiver wire pickups too. Last question....being tgecsavvy GM you are...how would you sell eggnog to people in Florida in the middle of a heat wave?
Will - well, I am a big fan of egg nog and it should be available all year long!! I would probably sell it in a carton...bring from Ontario, I am used to getting my dairy products in a bag but not sure that would catch on in Florida? Unless you market it with a free milk (nog) pitcher. (Insert Danny Green hates Bagged Milk Google file....)
Beamer - Ah yes.. Bagged milk. We used to have it out West here.....brings me back to my childhood days tbh. Oh and Danny Green can suck it for not liking it.Anyways... Nice talking to you SCD 18/19 Champ. Best of luck in the season and I know 30 other teams are gunning for ya and want to call ya Chump.
Will - "I am just focused on my week 1 match up vs. Rangers".
Beamer - Good answer...ya don't want to look too far ahead. If you do, you know Heller will jump all over you in Week 1. Question 2. With the previous question in mind...who's your choices for both SCD and IRL NHL finalists?
Will - We are just worried about the Canes brand of hockey in SCD we don't concern ourselves with anything other then the Canes brand ... IRL Canes vs. Oilers in finals you herd it here first !!! I was thinking more the Oilers take IRL but I could just see that team shocking for some reason and it's no fun taking the favorites.
Beamer - Well....you pulled a Tampa Bay answer....that's okay. We all know there's a boatload of teams gunning for you. Question 3...last year the IRL Hurricanes did a few different, out-of-the-box things like donning the Hartford Whalers classic jerseys, playing Brass Bonanza and of course the Storm Surge after wins . Your thoughts on that...Good? Bad? Anything else that they can do to top all that?
Will - Well generally I'm a hockey traditionalist (don't get me started on how much I hate instant replay). At first I thought the Storm Surge was dumb and disrespectful. As time went on though, in a market like that, it was bringing put the fans and making the Canes relevant in their own market so I thought that was good. As for the Hartford stuff, I think it's dumb because it's in the past and has nothing to do with Carolina. What's next, the Coyotes wearing the vintage Jets jerseys vs. The Winnipeg Jets? Or maybe Winnipeg will wear the Thrashers jerseys that game?
Beamer - Ooo...not sure I like that take...long live the Whale!!!!! (And Brass Bonanza). I agree though....Jets stay with Wpg franchise.....Yotes...well they can move to KC, Houston or Quebec for all I care. Question 4. What's your favorite thing to order from the Olive Garden? And more importantly, what are you buying me for dinner?
Will - My favorite thing from Olive Garden is the free bread!!! Its like adding an undiscovered stud from the waiver wire and it cost your team nothing!!! (Cigar face) For you Beamer you can have anything you want from the menu for letting me win it all last year !!! (Sunglasses face)
Beamer - Love that answer....you know me well it seems...food is the answer to my heart. Well, you did earn that victory and it was in part to your astute waiver wire pickups too. Last question....being tgecsavvy GM you are...how would you sell eggnog to people in Florida in the middle of a heat wave?
Will - well, I am a big fan of egg nog and it should be available all year long!! I would probably sell it in a carton...bring from Ontario, I am used to getting my dairy products in a bag but not sure that would catch on in Florida? Unless you market it with a free milk (nog) pitcher. (Insert Danny Green hates Bagged Milk Google file....)
Beamer - Ah yes.. Bagged milk. We used to have it out West here.....brings me back to my childhood days tbh. Oh and Danny Green can suck it for not liking it.Anyways... Nice talking to you SCD 18/19 Champ. Best of luck in the season and I know 30 other teams are gunning for ya and want to call ya Chump.