Blue & Green

Burr buries the Bullies!

Sounds good to me.

lol - and sometimes a full recovery may not be attainable.

Yeah, a lot of fickle fans on here, recovery from injury takes time. It's good to see a healthy Burrows playing so well so early in the season!

Agree. Battling with so much tenacity on every shift, this is the Burrows we know and love. 5 hits in one game, that's a lot of "bang for your buck".

Benning is definitely not a self promoter, which after listening to the likes of Torts and Gillis recently, I can really appreciate.

Yup, definitely not a hard selling public relations type of guy but rather a straight talking no bullshit man of few words. It appears that his work does the talking for him.

Torts's days were numbered after Gillis was fired and Linden was hired. I thought he would have been long gone before now. It was a mistake hiring Torts as FA alluded to at President Linden's first presser.

No kidding, it's asinine. How about "exposing the weaknesses" of the opponent rather and coaching to our strengths.

I would rather make a clean break and be done with Torts and Sulli show altogether.

Fire Torts, hire Trotz.

"Our current coach" isn't good enough. Not the roster's fault.

I'm surprised that both Torts and this thread are not long gone by now. Like a lot of others, I do not hate Torts, I just think he is the wrong coach for our current roster. It was a mistake to hire him in the first place and the sooner that mistake is rectified, the better. As I have already stated much earlier in this thread, the core of this roster is not going anywhere anytime soon. Like it or not, the previous management group tied this current core to the organization with NTC's for many years to come. A lot of us agree that Tort's does not have the right roster to play his style of hockey, it's a misfit. Fortunately, he does not have a NTC. The only solution to this problem is to let him go and hire a coach that is a better fit.

That sums it up. The nasty Bruins are masters at getting under the other team's skin and they have the muscle to back it up. Still it's pretty damn hard to turn the other cheek with a stick jammed up your crouch.

I agree that injuries and lack of depth were partly responsible for this season's collapse, but there is more to it than that. Torts stated that his change of style was simply lifting his foot off of the gas and not stepping back down quicker. It's not a change in style, it's a change in the intensity of delivering the same message. Collapsing zone defence, block the shot, dump it out, chase, dump it in, chase... Good system for a less talented team or line trying to compete against a more skilled team/line. It's a waste of time and energy for players that are capable of controlling and moving the puck especially like the Sedins. Lacking speed and size, dump and chase should be their last option, not their first. This is one of Torts's major mismanagements, implementing a system that is clearly not suited to the roster available to him. Furthermore, there is no evidence that there will be any systematic change under his leadership as history suggest. Heed the wise words of Glen Sather, the sooner Torts is gone the better.

It has everything to do with this discussion, Torts is a one trick pony that even mismanaged a roster that was more suited to his style of play. The Rangers are in much more capable hands now. The writing is on the wall, Torts is history.

Couldn't agree more.

Yes, the cap crunch did hurt the Canucks for the past 2 seasons and this with the rash of injuries did not help the fact that we could have used more depth. However, this has no bearing on the fact that Torts misused and mismanaged the assets he did have. Too many players had terrible seasons, that fact is glaring.

Torts overused half of his bench in the first 2 months burning them out by Christmas. Not having confidence in the over half, they never found their footing until very late in the season if at all. Truth is Torts did not manage his roster very well.

Yeah, that's what we want, a coach that brings out the worst in his players. Sorry guys, I don't think that's what Linden & Co. want.

Detroit scores, come on boys!

Actions speak louder than words. Torts recently said that he is a 4 line guy but his history in the NHL does not bear that out. That recent statement sounds more like he was appealing to Linden for his job next season.

Yeah, great looking line. Hope Linden and Co. take a real hard look at Kane...

The slight downward trend of the offense from 2011 to 2013 that fell off a cliff in 2014 under Torts's mismanagement.