

Toronto has struggled in that area, losing so many post-season series, until beating Tampa Bay, then losing to Florida. You need a couple up and down who can run around, intimidate the D and add that intensity to the series.” “For a deep playoff run, you need grit through the lineup, you just can’t have one guy. I just felt on the ice, in our room and around our team, talking to the staff, we need a bit more noise.” “It’s not about fighting and the rest of it. “I remember (Reaves’ previous GM in Minnesota) Billy Guerin told me you need character on your team - and some characters,” Treliving said. Last season with the Wild and New York Rangers, he put up five goals and 10 assists in 73 games. Reaves is a 6-foot-2, 225-pound larger-than-life personality, a Manitoba native who ranks eighth among active NHLers in penalty minutes. “(But) there were certain levels we could go to, notwithstanding other business (signing Auston Matthews and William Nylander to extensions and retaining restricted free agent goalie Ilya Samsonov).” “We had some goals walk out the door today,” Treliving admitted. While praising Dubas’ work at last year’s trade deadline that netted all of the above but Bunting, Treliving was bequeathed scant financial resources to sign new players. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.

So during a mammoth two-hour set we are treated to Paul Stanley flying through the air over the audience, enough pyrotechnics to power a small city and a bass solo from Gene Simmons that affirms his love for fake blood capsules. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. I mean in the massive hair, guitars-as-penis-extensions, classic rock sort of way. And I don’t mean in the way Royal Blood famously took rock ‘n’ roll seriously by throwing a tantrum and storming off stage at Radio 1's Big Weekend last month.

That said, Kiss certainly take rock ‘n’ roll seriously. After all, it’s hard to pout in a full face of makeup, leather pants and seven-inch platforms. And there was the Kiss Farewell Tour before that too.īut it’s fitting for a band who have never taken themselves too seriously. After all, the truly devoted will have had several years and many opportunities to attend by the time the Kiss' End of the Road tour is finished. The final tour - it’s become something of a misnomer.
