[Owned35]

Raymond is learning some very key aspects of the Canucks game in his time with the big club, especially the past 3 games.

- How to kill time during the 10-15 second interval on the powerplay while your defenceman skate all the way down the ice to fetch the puck. Also how to call for a change during this time.

- Acceleration off the draw, skating torwards his own net or to rush the point to block the shooting lane due to a lost faceoff in all 3 zones

- Perfecting the dejected skate to the bench after a goal against

- How to stop during a 3 on 2 and fire a pass to the trailing defensive defenceman on his weak side backhand

- How not to shoot the puck on net

This post has been edited by Owned35: 24 October 2007 - 08:38 PM

[timw33]

Owned35, on Oct 24 2007, 08:34 PM, said:

Raymond is learning some very key aspects of the Canucks game in his time with the big club, especially the past 3 games.

- How to kill time during the 10-15 second interval on the powerplay while your defenceman skate all the way down the ice to fetch the puck. Also how to call for a change during this time.

- Acceleration off the draw, skating torwards his own net or to rush the point to block the shooting lane due to a lost faceoff in all 3 zones

- Perfecting the dejected skate to the bench after a goal against

- How to stop during a 3 on 2 and fire a pass to the trailing defensive defenceman on his weak side backhand

- How not to shoot the puck on net

Wow, you are really contributing to our this thread.

[Toxic]

Owned35, on Oct 24 2007, 08:34 PM, said:

Raymond is learning some very key aspects of the Canucks game in his time with the big club, especially the past 3 games.

- How to kill time during the 10-15 second interval on the powerplay while your defenceman skate all the way down the ice to fetch the puck. Also how to call for a change during this time.

- Acceleration off the draw, skating torwards his own net or to rush the point to block the shooting lane due to a lost faceoff in all 3 zones

- Perfecting the dejected skate to the bench after a goal against

- How to stop during a 3 on 2 and fire a pass to the trailing defensive defenceman on his weak side backhand

- How not to shoot the puck on net

Good for you, you can leave now, one reason why people consider this one of the few great threads on this forum is because for the most part un-original trolls such as yourself have had the decency not to degrade and corrupt the 4,000+ replies here b mugging prospects at every given moment.

Your just as bad as the guy who thinks Raymond and Hansen and Simek will all become 3rd or 4th line checkers.

This is your cue to leave. I suggest you take it.

[Toxic]

Ellington records his 1st point of the year on the GWG with under 2 minutes to go vs. Saskatoon (it was an assist)

[timw33]

Toxic, on Oct 24 2007, 09:24 PM, said:

Ellington records his 1st point of the year on the GWG with under 2 minutes to go vs. Saskatoon (it was an assist)

Excellent.

Keep up up Ellington.

Turns out that one of my friends played hockey with him/was friends with him.

[Lost Canuck]

Bourdon is pleasing me this year. Hopefully he continues like this.
Why didn't he play like this at training camp?

[timw33]

Lost Canuck, on Oct 24 2007, 11:15 PM, said:

Bourdon is pleasing me this year. Hopefully he continues like this.
Why didn't he play like this at training camp?

Ridiculously blown out of proportion expectations.

Tried to do too much.

[Lost Canuck]

timw33, on Oct 24 2007, 11:32 PM, said:

Ridiculously blown out of proportion expectations.

Tried to do too much.

Yeah, I get people were expecting him to be a Phaneuf and whatnot but he seems to be doing better in the 'Peg.
Probably less pressure as you mentoned.

[jayRmichigan]

Toxic, on Oct 24 2007, 09:16 PM, said:

Good for you, you can leave now, one reason why people consider this one of the few great threads on this forum is because for the most part un-original trolls such as yourself have had the decency not to degrade and corrupt the 4,000+ replies here b mugging prospects at every given moment.

Your just as bad as the guy who thinks Raymond and Hansen and Simek will all become 3rd or 4th line checkers.

This is your cue to leave. I suggest you take it.

He's just stating his opinions. And while he could have said it a lot better, that doesn't mean he should be shunned.

I'm not for mugging prospects or anything, but holding them up like they're gods of hockey is ridiculous. I don't mind when people criticize players as long as it doesn't get out of hand, or the criticism is undeserving. In the same way I don't mind people getting excited about or complementing a player who does well.

In this case, I don't think that Raymond deserves criticism, but I don't think he's been playing particularly well either. Not enough to warrant praise anyways.

This is a good thread, but attacking someone for stating an oppinion (however badly it was stated) doesn't make you much better than the 'un-original trolls'. Don't you think defending Raymond would have been a better way to deal?

[LoudProudNuckFan]

Glad to hear our prospects are doing well.

[Toxic]

jayRmichigan, on Oct 25 2007, 02:17 AM, said:

He's just stating his opinions. And while he could have said it a lot better, that doesn't mean he should be shunned.

I'm not for mugging prospects or anything, but holding them up like they're gods of hockey is ridiculous. I don't mind when people criticize players as long as it doesn't get out of hand, or the criticism is undeserving. In the same way I don't mind people getting excited about or complementing a player who does well.

In this case, I don't think that Raymond deserves criticism, but I don't think he's been playing particularly well either. Not enough to warrant praise anyways.

This is a good thread, but attacking someone for stating an oppinion (however badly it was stated) doesn't make you much better than the 'un-original trolls'. Don't you think defending Raymond would have been a better way to deal?

Two things.

1. That was not constructive criticism of Raymond, that was just bashing, if you see the 1st page of this thread, it specifically says bashing of prospects is not allowed. If it was this thread would be horrible and filled with bourdon -> kopitar remarks and about the Canucks poor drafting history, but it's a sort of mutual understanding when people post here that criticism is fine, but not blatant insulting and bashing.

2. Defending Raymond would certainly have been better, but there's only so many times i can defend Raymond or defend the selection of White or Bourdon before i get swarmed by the throngs of idiots. I've spent far too much time defending these players only to see more and more threads questioning them come up, theres only so much 1 poster can do against hundreds who have it out for our prospects no matter what.

It appears insulting posters rather than trying to reason with them works MUCH better, and until that changes, i won't change my approach.

[timw33]

Minnesota playing today at 7:07 CDT.

So the results will be up by.......around 8 our time?

[Toxic]

Follow it on USCHO's forum, theres a score update sub forum

[Untouchable]

Don't have your hopes up in Patrick White going on a tear this season and become an offensive dynamo. I have watched a gopher game and the Minnesota coach rarely uses the third line which consists of Lucia-White-Hoeffl. When they do hit the ice, they are on for a very short period where they help move the puck out of the defensive zone and wait for a stoppage in play. Wheeler-Okposo get majority of the ice-time even if they do make mistakes that results in goals for the other team the coach will continue to increase their ice-time.

I am looking forward to next season where I am sure White will have a top-2 role down the middle and make a substantial impact on the scoresheet.

[timw33]

And if White doesnt get the time next year, he should honestly consider joining the WHL.

[timw33]

White's linemate Bostrom scored.

Not sure if White was involved on the play.

[Toxic]

White has no pts yet in a 3-0 game, but is a +2, who said he isnt getting icetime???

[jayRmichigan]

Toxic, on Oct 25 2007, 09:33 AM, said:

Two things.

1. That was not constructive criticism of Raymond, that was just bashing, if you see the 1st page of this thread, it specifically says bashing of prospects is not allowed. If it was this thread would be horrible and filled with bourdon -> kopitar remarks and about the Canucks poor drafting history, but it's a sort of mutual understanding when people post here that criticism is fine, but not blatant insulting and bashing.

2. Defending Raymond would certainly have been better, but there's only so many times i can defend Raymond or defend the selection of White or Bourdon before i get swarmed by the throngs of idiots. I've spent far too much time defending these players only to see more and more threads questioning them come up, theres only so much 1 poster can do against hundreds who have it out for our prospects no matter what.

It appears insulting posters rather than trying to reason with them works MUCH better, and until that changes, i won't change my approach.

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Your approach is lame.

[Toxic]

Haven't been banned yet, so it's working, if it's so lame then dont worry about it

[timw33]

Toxic, on Oct 25 2007, 06:20 PM, said:

White has no pts yet in a 3-0 game, but is a +2, who said he isnt getting icetime???

I'm being hypothetical.