Control is TOML. TOML is control.
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And Crosby falls to another round of un-Gretzky-like head injuries.
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And Chara falls to the first significant injury he's had in years.
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And Wellwood vanishes statistically again while Evander Kane takes over.
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And Brian Burke bans media outlets and blocks twitter access to all those who don't fall in line with his controlling message in TO.
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The Vancouver Media.
While they're serving the public and the information is in demand, they sometimes cross the line and/or dwell in the negative. Either by making up stories, misreporting them to serve their agenda or by merely exposing what the Canucks would like to keep under wraps.
While a story is a story, they sometimes forget about the effect the story might have on the team that is in fact their main source of income in this town.
If they say it all has little to no effect on
The more I look at Gillis' approach to team-building, the more 'post-lockout Detroit' it looks.
Detroit doesn't have a $3.5 mil 'shutdown' defenseman and they do quite alright.
However, they have a hall-of-fame captain defenseman named Nick Lidstrom. Now... Believe it or not, Christian Ehrhoff just had a comparable season to Lidstrom on 09/10. His +/- was better. He had more goals. He had almost as many points. And his actual defensive ability was actually closer to Lidstrom's than
