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Everything posted by PhillipBlunt
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Damn DaddyRock that is awesome. Led Zeppelin had a special connection to Vancouver too. Opening every North American tour here up until 1975. Just awesome.
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What about $4,888,690 X 6 years?
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It was a joke that he was allowed to do that, and really speaks to how pathetic a job NHL refs do. You'd think that two players who exemplify sportsmanship and fair play would be people that refs would truly appreciate, but these douchebags officiating games in the NHL? Nah.
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based on that I think his expectations would be..... Ah Gilman, making stuff up to get airtime. Is it really a surprise that no team hired him and now he's on 1040? What a joke.
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That's what the team needs. I highly doubt that Calgary would have beat the Canucks, had Gudbranson been there to beat the ever-loving crap out of Ferland, who was guilty of charging on numerous occasions to which the useless zebras turned a blind eye to. Bieksa fed him a few, but it did nothing to deter the situation.
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It's a discussion because those who purvey analytics as the only answer, believe that they know more than the atypical hockey fan. They harbor resentment at the fact that GMs (minus John Chayka), coaches, and players will always view analytics as a useful, but peripheral tool, and not everything under the sun. Vancouver seems to be a hotbed of analytics weasels, Chayka being one of them, so the instances of impotent, keypunching, blog-posting derision is going to be higher here. Add in attention whores like Crotchturd, and you have the present predicament. The Sedins never helped themselves either by turning the other cheek. Daniel should have snapped and gone Viking on Marchand during the 2011 finals. That would have been perfect. But he didn't. Henrik and Daniel are very likely on their swansong here, so any protection through the drafting, trading, or signing of physical players will be done with the younger players in mind. I think Gudbranson's presence helps to cultivate a team wide mental and physical approach to being confident. Other players are apt to stand up for themselves if Gudbranson is there to step in should a more dominant player try something.
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The majority who oversimplify do so because they are too busy looking at Corsi/Fenwick charts to determine a player's worth. They have no clue. Zero. The NHL playoffs are a war. The speed and skill evident in the regular season is almost overshadowed by the massive uptick in physical play (as you stated, not only fighting). The emotional quality of play increases lock step with that physicality. Players like Gudbranson, Dorsett, and the like are invaluable at this time. I ask those in analytics again. Why would Jim Rutherford sign Ryan Reaves, the season after the Penguins won the Cup?
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Imagine how Canucks players have felt, being run into the boards by LA, Anaheim, and San Jose for the past few years. I harken back to when Dustbin Brown leveled Henrik during the playoffs, and he was barely able to get to the door for the bench. There was zero response to the Kings, especially Brown during that series, and the Kings continued to hit the Canucks into oblivion, using their physicality to take a stranglehold on the series. Going back to having a team with zero response to aggression (which still exists in spades in the NHL) would be a hard pill to swallow and would turn off a lot of fans from wanting to watch a pushover team. The Canucks already have quite a few young players with speed to burn, they need some size to insulate them.
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Where are the analytics folks at?
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When? That is pretty much as great a mic drop as possible.
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I hate you.....really it's more that I envy the bolded beyond belief. What were the dates for those shows?
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Soundgarden x 2 Pearl Jam x 3 Rage Against the Machine Page and Plant Ravi Shankar Paco deLucia Chris Cornell Neil Young U2 Tool Queens of the Stone Age x 2 Gogol Bordello Big Sugar Tragically Hip Public Enemy Red Hot Chili Peppers Foo Fighters VSO x a few Charles Bradley Dinosaur Jr. Alice in Chains Arrested Development Radiohead (Michael Stipe joined them for Karma Police) Living Color Manu Chao Marissa Nadler Hot Hot Heat Mystery Machine The Rolling Stones Jurassic 5 Macklemore The Philosopher Kings Godspeed You! Black Emperor Sigur Ros The Shins K-os Cake Vampire Weekend The Black Crowes Buddy Guy Robert Plant Kim Mitchell The Pursuit of Happiness Bill Burr Guns N' Roses Visha Mohan Bhatt Ustad Sultan Khan and Zakir Hussien Wintersleep AC/DC Alt-J Bahamas Green Day Blind Melon Caspian Def Leppard Dropkick Murphys Slipknot Tokyo Police Club I probably should have listed that alphabetically...
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Your stories are not boring at all, Joe. Life experience never is.
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Definitely wasn't Guddy's best game. Nor Tanev's. And definitely not Hutton's. That being said, players will go through, as we all know, dips in performance I thought the first half of the game, Hutton looked like an AHLer, showing zero confidence and being generally sloppy and panicked with the puck. In the third, he seemed to have found some extra gear and cleaned up his play. I think all three defensemen had a productive third period, making up for lackluster performances in the first two. In the end, the team won because others picked up the slack for those who underperformed. That seems to be a solid factor in the play of the Canucks this season. A true team game, where players can lean on each other to make things happen. It's great to have "elite" talent, but if there is little to no team chemistry, that talent is wasted......cough Edmonton cough.
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He still is a wildly inconsistent player. The eye test is far more accurate than the spreadsheet approach.
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That's the kicker. It's all in Erik's court.
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Behold the face of vengeance incarnate, deep in thought about whether his next suit should be single or double breasted.
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That's ole Jack Skille getting the leg sweep from Lastname.
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I hope Edler comes back with a vengeance.
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Yeah. Giving him 3 years was not the best plan. Not sure why he wasn't offered a one year deal, based on his history of essentially being a hockey hobo.
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I'd like nothing more than to see Loui do well and score some goals. I think Gagner should be sat over Burmistrov though. Baertschi-Horvat-Boeser Eriksson-Sutter-Dorsett Granlund-Gaunce-Virtanen Daniel-Henrik-Vanek Burmistrov
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Totally. And Willie Mitchell's voice as well. I truly hope that this season will continue to be a successful one and that Gudbranson has interest in re-signing with the Canucks. He fits into his role here perfectly and adds such power to the lineup, that it can't be ignored. How Benning handles Gudbranson will truly be indicative of how this team will fare going forward. By the way, I hope your wife is doing well with the healing from surgery.
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He's a scumbag for sure. Gudbranson essentially neutralized him and got him worked up. but somehow the anal-it-ticks crew completely ignores how essential Gudbranson was in shutting down one of the preeminent power forwards on one of the best teams in the league. I guess it doesn't fit there narrative, and these types are never ones to admit fault at all. Green is an excellent coach at the NHL level already, with less than 20 games to his name at the NHL level. He's just going to get better and better. I think that's what Green wants all the defensemen to do.
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Pretty much. Players like McEwen, Gadjovich and others are coming down the prospect pipeline and will play with an edge, but they're years away, and should come into a team with some players already holding the mantle of a standup guy. Right now, that is Gudbranson's, and he does it well. Without Gudbranson, the Oilers, Flames, Kings, Ducks, Sharks, and Knights will muscle their way into the Canucks zone and set up shop, free to fire at will, just like they did in the years following 2011. It would be a colossal error to trade Gudbranson, if he shows interest in signing here.
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Ah. These guys do tend to spew out what'll get their Twitter accounts or Sportsnet columns hits. Hell, even McKenzie and LeBrun have been shooting blanks.