canucks_booster Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 If they don't make major changes to this team, no matter how much Gillis claims "others" are envious of our team, the Canucks will have trouble selling out their games and will have to manufacture their "sellouts". This market is too knowledgeable to be served proven failed models of the same ineffective players: Raymond Malhotra Luongo to name a few. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hank's Secret Sauce Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 If The Brahma Bull is looking at this thread can you tell Cody Hodgson to "Know your role and shut your mouth!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotdawg Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 It's not like he came out and disclosed the conversations that were had. He said he'd spent more time in three years on Coho issues than the rest of the team combined, where is the violation of confidentiality in that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neversummer Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 -Hodgson – “spent more time in the last 3 years dealing with Cody issues than with all other players combined.” (Kind of reminds me of certain CDC members’ priorities.) Priceless, and strong stuff for Mike so you know he had it up to here what with the guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Provost Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I don't believe the cancerous part or the attitude. Some players need to play and he wasn't getting it here. Doesn't mean he was dragging the team down in the locker room. At least that's not the sense i get when the players are all talking and laughing. Kyle Turris needed to play. Ottawa gave it to him and now he's progressing pretty well. That could be the same for Cody. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onions Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Thrilled to hear that the plan is to get younger and stronger 100% agree with that Nice to have some clarity on Cody's situation Annoyed that he's still sticking with Mason Raymond. The Canucks have shown Raymond such patience and loyalty. He'd better reward them with his performance next season Was hoping for a bit more clarity on the goalie situation but perhaps he doesn't know what the plan is yet either. Seems unfathomable to let Schneider go though Interesting to hear that MG admit that the team wasn't the same after the Boston game. We all said it and the team denied it but I guess it was true. Also interesting to hear him call Game 1 of the playoffs a disaster because it was but I just never thought he'd say that. Hopefully our prospects work hard this summer so that they are ready to make the team next year. We need that youthful talent and energy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gradin123 Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Gillis didn't need to trade Cody this year. Cody was playing hard for the Canucks, if he was a discontent you couldn't tell by his effort on the ice. Gillis is making excuses for the trade. Ultimately though Gillis said Kassian was one of 6 players he has been targeting for Cody and he would do the trade again. He can be judged on that assessment of Kassian in the long run but in the short run it has been a failure. Also, I am not sure limiting trade discussions to just 6 players is a good strategy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monteeun Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 I was hopping they could, at the time, give him more chance. Maybe take some pressure off of the first and second line. I'll give Cody one thing, he's driven. I am somewhat disappointed. He is an awesome player. Good luck to him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neversummer Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 If Hodgson wanted more minutes then he had to show that he was better than Kesler or Sedin. He was given premium icetime (playoffs and offensive zone faceoffs), and did fine but not well enough to knock off an Art Ross and Selke winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
windiddy0 Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Everyone is acting as if Gillis blatabtly bad-mouthed Cody on live TV. He was basically saying (if you read between the lines) that he worked with Cody to improve his ability as a player and tried to put him in as big a role as he could without sacrificing the teams ability to compere. That being said, it was clear to him that Cody would've rather played a larger role on a different team than a smaller role on this one. I don't think either party lost integrity or was thrown under the bus, he handled that question (after being asked the same one for the 10000000000th time since deadline day) with professionalism. Furthermore, if you watch any post-season interviews, it's clear that MG, AV and the rest of management all have a strict confidentiality policy while their team or teams they've dealt with directly are still competing in the season. Once that's over, they open up quite a bit to the media, which I think is respectable both strategically and professionally. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BedBeats™2.0 Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Gillis didn't need to trade Cody this year. Cody was playing hard for the Canucks, if he was a discontent you couldn't tell by his effort on the ice. Gillis is making excuses for the trade. Ultimately though Gillis said Kassian was one of 6 players he has been targeting for Cody and he would do the trade again. He can be judged on that assessment of Kassian in the long run but in the short run it has been a failure. Also, I am not sure limiting trade discussions to just 6 players is not a good strategy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baercheese Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Luongo said he'll waive his NTC if asked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monteeun Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Gillis didn't need to trade Cody this year. Cody was playing hard for the Canucks, if he was a discontent you couldn't tell by his effort on the ice. Gillis is making excuses for the trade. Ultimately though Gillis said Kassian was one of 6 players he has been targeting for Cody and he would do the trade again. He can be judged on that assessment of Kassian in the long run but in the short run it has been a failure. Also, I am not sure limiting trade discussions to just 6 players is not a good strategy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertuzzi Babe Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Sometimes what you don't say speaks volumes more than what you could say. It just leads to more speculation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Doctor Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 $%^& Cody Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neversummer Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Luongo said he'll waive his NTC if asked Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil_314 Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 sure hope the Canucks don't join the Nash sweepstakes (heard the Iginla sweepstakes which could be good but hope they don't have to sell the farm for him)... also good for some clarification from MG himself about the Cody situation (that doesn't make the Kassian acquisition any more justified at present... but good assertion at least on MG's part in establishing the team core with Hank and Kes, just hope Cody doesn't become the stud who in retrospect could've made the difference, or that Kass becomes a bust) also, if Raymond is qualified can his rights still be traded? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hotdawg Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Put it together. Daddy Hodgson is a politician and realtor from Toronto. How did this benefit his popularity by having his hockey star son in Vancouver, a market that could of well been on Mars. Get me my son back here. I love that Gillis finally, let out the truth that his family were a huge pain in the a**. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Two badly injured players and one of the best goalies in the league and you called it a "proven failed models of the same ineffective players". Might be time to climb out from under the rock and pay attention to the game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PuckDrop Posted April 24, 2012 Share Posted April 24, 2012 Who said that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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