ahf149 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I think the reason for the call up is that Kassian, Higgins, and Pinizzoto are all either injured or sick. So yeah...We need to call up someone ....just to fill our line up. The good news all of these injuries are happening now and not right before playoffs...*knock on wood* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PONCHE Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 You guys know that when someone says "inb4 why not [insert players name here]" that they're not actually advocating for that player to be called up right? They're pointing out that a bunch of homers are going to be whining and crying that their choice deserved a chance over the actual callup. Just checkin'. PS I don't know why Gaunce didn't get the call. He's a stud and I want to see how he'll handle the NHL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 U seriously expect every canucks fan know who Andrew Gordon is? I seriously know nothing about this guy...so it sounds like he is really 5'11. 190 pound type guy. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theminister Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I've already seen it suggested. Either that or they go with Alberts on the 4th. Sedin Sedin Burrows Raymond Schroeder Hansen Ballard Ebbett Gordon Sestito Lapierre Weise Obviously mix and match in the bottom six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanKeslord17 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 That's actually pretty depressing when you see it on paper. I'm concerned about the back situation with Higgins. They can be minor or it could be the year. With Pinizzotto, you have to wonder if that hard crash into the boards on the half hit caused him an injury to his surgically repaired shoulder. Gotta hope not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gustavo Fring Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 All this pretentious griping about how canucks = AHL/ECHL team is pathetic. Half the players on the senators team are AHLers and they are still nestled tightly in a playoff spot. Injuries happen, deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RyanKeslord17 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 All this pretentious griping about how canucks = AHL/ECHL team is pathetic. Half the players on the senators team are AHLers and they are still nestled tightly in a playoff spot. Injuries happen, deal with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckleHorse Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Gaunce sucks, needs at least 2 or 3 in the echl before even thinking of trying out for the wolves. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poetica Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Mr. Nice Guy Each time Chicago Wolves right wing Andrew Gordon scores a goal at Allstate Arena, Alice Cooper’s “No More Mr. Nice Guy” blares from the loudspeakers. It’s a humorous choice for a goal song because, well, Gordon never deviates from Nice Guy mode. “You know ‘Gordo,’ ” said veteran American Hockey League defenseman Dean Arsene, Gordon’s first roommate in professional hockey. “He’s a pretty easy-going guy. He’s always positive, always having fun, always in a good mood.” Before one of the Wolves’ morning skates on their mid-October trip to Abbotsford, B. C., Gordon amused himself and his teammates by balancing the end of his hockey stick on his chin and keeping it aloft for several seconds. While skating around on the ice. The 27-year-old Porters Lake, Nova Scotia native – who has produced 11 goals and 19 points in 33 games through Jan. 21—has a passion for life that extends in unpredictable directions. And when the Wolves alternate captain does latch on to a topic, he isn’t afraid to express his interest via Twitter (@AndrewGordon10). One sample from August: “The guy who will be renting my place moves in at 9am. Maybe I should have been packing instead of youtube-ing clips of pet pot belly pigs.” Really? Potbelly pigs? “I’m allergic to dogs, but I went through a phase this summer where I wanted a pet really bad,” Gordon said with a laugh. “Potbelly pigs became a small fixation of mine. So I did research online and watched some pet videos and how to train them. They’re pretty remarkable little animals, but I definitely won’t be getting one any time soon. Like I say, it was a minor fixation. It was something to keep me away from doing responsible things.” That attitude might explain another one of Gordon’s tweets during offseason downtime: “When my hockey career is over I want a job at the zoo wearing a giant panda costume feeding baby pandas. Maybe the 2nd best job ever.” Gordon let out another long laugh upon hearing his words read back to him. “Well, I was watching some Discovery Channel, and there were some guys dressed up as giant pandas who would go in there and try to make baby pandas feel more comfortable when they were eating,” Gordon said. “I don’t know what the deal is, but cuddling a baby panda seems like the second-best job that would be out there. I’ve always been an animal lover, a zoo lover. It just seemed appropriate at the time.” Why did Gordon label it the second-best job in the world? Because he already has the best job in the world –and he knows it. Gordon is the guy who shows up for practice early and stays late because he loves everything about the sport. He’s the guy whose 4.8 percent body fat ranks as the lowest on the team, no small feat with his 6-foot, 198-pound physique when there are wiry guys like Eddie Lack on the roster. He’s the guy who’s as serious about his craft as he’s unserious about everything else. “I have a lot to smile about,” Gordon said. “It’s something that not many people can say; I love going to work every day. Playing hockey for a living is a gift. If I didn’t respect it, then I would be doing everybody else who actually works hard for their living a disservice. “I’m an adult. I play a game for a living and that’s something I can never take for granted.” Gordon, a sixth-year pro who has 49 National Hockey League games and 3 NHL goals on his resume, gives credit to the 32-year-old Arsene for teaching him how to be a professional. Gordon left St. Cloud State after three years and joined the Hershey Bears in 2007 as a “black ace,” which meant he served as a practice player for the Bears as they went all the way to the Calder Cup finals. Arsene, Hershey’s captain, was injured and couldn’t play during the playoffs. So when the Bears hit the road, he’d invite Gordon and a teammate or two over for dinner or take them to a baseball game. After the Cup Finals ended, Arsene asked Gordon if he’d like to live with him and his girlfriend, Alex, the following season. Gordon accepted eagerly. They developed such a close friendship, Gordon shared emcee duties with Alex’s brother during Dean and Alex’s wedding in 2010. When the Wolves played at Abbotsford in October, Gordon visited Alex’s parents’ house as both sides of the Arsene family filled the place in order to enjoy his company. “I really came out of college and was eating frozen pizzas and drinking Diet Pepsi,” Gordon said. “When I started living with Dean, I saw how he was doing it. I came to him and said, ‘Look, I see what I’m doing and I see what you’re doing—and I want that.’ You have to be interested in it. “That’s one thing about anything in your life, I feel. If you don’t want to change it, you’re never going to. You’ll always revert back to the way you are and the way you want to be.” Arsene, now an alternate captain for St. John’s and a mainstay on the IceCaps blue line, remembers taking Gordon to the grocery store. “Jokingly, he’d call it ‘Dinner with Dean,’ ” Arsene said. “Once a week, we’d pick out a recipe from my book and we’d go to the store. I’d show him what to buy and what to eat. He’d write down everything and copy the recipe. I like food and I like cooking, so we always had fun with it.” Now Gordon counts his daily grocery-store visit among his passions. He gets a kick out of spending 45 minutes roaming a store, even when he has just three items on his list for that night’s dinner. Upon hearing that anecdote, Arsene chuckled knowingly. “He’s just a good guy, down to earth,” Arsene said. “I thought of him as kind of a little brother to me. He was kind of like Alex’s little brother too.” With that in mind, an intriguing situation unfolded last March within the Wolves family. Right about the time Gordon suffered a season-ending lower-body injury, rookie defenseman Brad Hunt joined the squad shortly after his career ended at Bemidji State University. Gordon and Hunt became roommates at the Wolves team hotel and they hit it off. “The boys jokingly call Brad Hunt my son,” Gordon said with a laugh. “I drove him to practice every day. I was cooking meals for him in the hotel.” Hunt tried to protest occasionally and offered to take turns in the kitchen, but Gordon would have none of it. Hunt was still in the midst of wrapping up his final classes at Bemidji State, so Gordon would suggest that Hunt study while he prepared the meals and juices. “I think my favorite meal of his was the salmon,” Hunt said. “And he always had tons of vegetables. He loves his vegetables. It was great. I loved him for that. It brought me really close to him for the six weeks that I was there.” Hunt, who took to calling Gordon “Pops,” sent him a “Happy Father’s Day” text in June. “It was totally natural for him,” Hunt said. “He wasn’t trying to do anything to impress anybody. It was just the type of guy that he is. Just a great person and he wanted to make sure I was as comfortable as can be. He made my time at the end of the season very enjoyable. It was awesome.” Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum-Runner Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 One small problem, av. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canada Hockey Place Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I'm hoping he sticks. I think he would have been a decent depth playoff player last season [similar to Jeff Tambellini] but that didn't go as planned. And then with no training camp this season he hasn't had a chance to do anything. Comparing his offensive totals in Hershey vs Pinizzotto is encouraging. Fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 That's actually pretty depressing when you see it on paper. I'm concerned about the back situation with Higgins. They can be minor or it could be the year. With Pinizzotto, you have to wonder if that hard crash into the boards on the half hit caused him an injury to his surgically repaired shoulder. Gotta hope not Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashi Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I hope he is an impact player on the ice tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bombastik der Teutone Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 would like to see archi gets a chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodee Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Actually I have, but, still he is an AHLer. Maybe a great call-up, but not a long term solution is all that I was saying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bodee Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Duplicate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hairy Kneel Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 All these injury type guys and their replacements makes Hank's ironman streak all the more impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cIutch Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 dude was doing better in the ahl then schroeder and he's a who? to most of you good luck andrew Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KING ALBERTS Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Here's what Scott Arniel has to say about him: On our power play, he’s a front-of-the-net guy battling and looking for garbage and has a heavy one-timer slapshot. And he’s not going to play on the perimeter, he’ll play in traffic because that’s where he scores most of his goals. He prefers the middle but he’ll do what’s best for the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VanIsleNuckFan Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Maybe this would be a good time to try out for the team for all you hopefuls Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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