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That was Brendan Gaunce doing the pushing/pulling and it was the prospect's orientation camp. How about giving the kid (at the time) a get out of jail card? Never been to North America (other than attending the draft, a trip that was extended into the prospect's orientation camp) and having zero clue about what was expected. Willie was great for Bo Horvat, but terrible for Tryamkin. He wanted Tryamkin to be a truculent force. And apparently, never spoke to the kid. So glad that twitchy Willie lasted only a couple of seasons. He may have been the worst Canucks coach since Bill Laforge.
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[Proposal] Garland traded to LAK
bigbadcanucks replied to BigTramFan's topic in Proposals and Armchair GM'ing
Sorry dude, even though you've got the heart of a giant, you're just too small. And that pushing the puck up the ice with one hand on your stick that you do so often, what's up with that? Do like the way you spin around and around and lose the defender on the perimeter/along the wall to make plays to your linemates for back doors and high slot chances, though. JK. I hope the Allvin doesn't move you. -
There's a guy earlier in this thread who was writing about how bad Dickison was at hockey. Turns out he was right. I know Dickison has another season left on his contract where he literally stole money from the Vancouver Canucks organization with his piss poor play this past season, but I really hope that Dickison finds himself on another team (or continent) next season. I hate players who proclaim they are certain things ("I'm a tough guy to play against...I've got more to give offensively..." (paraphrasing)), but do squat. Get him out of here. It will never happen since this would probably result in a walk out by the players union, but man, I wish none of the contracts in the NHL were guaranteed.
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Piss poor play by Pettersson from Games 1-50, mediocrity of the core (minus Miller, Hughes and Demko) to start the season, what may be the worst PK in the history of hockey, too many new faces that took too long to gel and Green's stagnant system to protect the pitiful defence group Benning assembled are the reasons I would attribute to why the Canucks missed the playoffs this season.
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You do realize that Switzerland has its own currency (i.e., the Swiss franc), don't you? One thing for sure, everything is expensive in Switzerland. Anyways, good luck to Sven Baertschi. Don't know why he never seemed to get a fair shake with Green, even before his concussion. I remember when he and Bo had some good chemistry playing together. That seems like a lifetime ago.
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All 32 NHL teams should play playoffs
bigbadcanucks replied to Slegr's topic in General Hockey Discussion
Why not? Your proposal of having all teams make the playoffs makes the regular season meaningless. IMO, it's a good thing that games in October mean as much as they do in April. -
All 32 NHL teams should play playoffs
bigbadcanucks replied to Slegr's topic in General Hockey Discussion
Whoever coined the phrase "Loser Points" got it wrong. It should be "Bonus Points" for OT and SO wins. Canucks of 2021-22 season had 32 regulation wins, 5 OT wins and 3 SO wins, giving them 40 wins by modern day Won/Loss Metrics. They had 30 regulation losses, 7 OT losses and 5 SO losses. So, 20 of their games ended up in regulation ties. Which would equate to 84 points in days of yore. For all intents and purposes, Canucks ended up with 8 bonus points for winning in OT and SO. Looking around the league, the beneficiaries of the "Bonus Points" are Florida, Minnesota and Dallas. It can be argued that simply based on the number of regulation wins they have, they may not be as good as their record indicates (though that's a tough argument to make as Minny and Dallas are leading in their respective opening round series, and other than Dallas, Florida and Minny has strong goal differentials). It would be interesting to see the NHL award 3 points for regulation wins, 2 points for OT/SO wins, and 1 point (i.e., the "Loser Point") for and OT/SO loss and see how the standings shape out. -
All 32 NHL teams should play playoffs
bigbadcanucks replied to Slegr's topic in General Hockey Discussion
LMFAO...exaggerate much? -
All 32 NHL teams should play playoffs
bigbadcanucks replied to Slegr's topic in General Hockey Discussion
Let's hand out participation ribbons to everyone. -
[Rumour] Canucks interested in Andrei Kuzmenko
bigbadcanucks replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
How is a tweet like this fear-mongering? Problem is with the person reading the tweet and getting fearful because of it, not the tweet. Like you say, no kidding he's talking to other teams. So what's the fear that's being mongered when common sense would tell most common sensical people this what is going on? And how is Faber's tweet anyway connected to Depp/Heard courtroom drama? How is Faber trying to get the public to pick sides with his tweet? Asking for a friend. -
[Report] Canucks fire 5 amateur scouts
bigbadcanucks replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
A friend of mine is a Sales and Lease Consultant at a Honda dealership in Langley...he leased a car to a Vegas amateur scout responsible for BCHL coverage on a full time basis, and he was getting paid $90K CAD a year, with car allowance of $700 a month, a gas card for fuel expenses, and all travel expenses covered. The scout did a lease on a Honda CR-V Touring (a three year lease payment on this car is apparently $550 a month). As an aside, same friend leased a Honda Pilot to Brian (Red) Hamilton. If anyone needs a Honda, go to Jonker Honda and ask for my friend Byron. He's amazing at what he does and you won't meet a better guy in the car biz. Tom Martin Jr., probably best known for being traded for a team bus by Victoria Cougars and aptly nicknamed Greyhound back in the late 80s, drafted by the Jets and had a short NHL career, is a friend of mine, living in Victoria. His father, Tom Senior, was the Senior Scout for Western Canada for NHL Central Scouting, and my guess is that Tom Senior probably got paid around $125,000 back in the 1990s. -
[Report] Canucks fire 5 amateur scouts
bigbadcanucks replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
And there's a story out there that he was pushing hard for Burkie to draft Shea Weber with the first round pick in the 2003 draft (the draft that Burkie took Kesler). -
To add to your point, Boudreau agreed to certain terms and conditions, which included an option, exercisable by both parties, for one more season beyond the 2021-2022 season. It's evident the Canucks have exercised their option to have Boudreau return to the agreed upon season, so now it's up to Boudreau to exercise his option to do the same (or not). I'm glad the Canucks Hockey Ops group is not capitulating on the original terms and conditions. If Boudreau expects the Hockey Ops to go beyond the terms and conditions to what Aquillini and Boudreu's agent agreed to in December by extending him, that's all I need to form an opinion on him. I agree with Rutherford's assertion that the team lacked structure and depended on Demko to win games. Being dependent on Markstrom and Demko to steal games has been going on way too long. Without Demko, this team is battling for a high lottery pick in June. In my mind's eye, Boudreau and the entire cast of the players not named Demko, Hughes and Miller still have a ton of things they have to do to prove they aren't a bunch of pretenders (that includes Pettersson, who only showed up for the last 30 games of the season, Horvat, who in spite of scoring a career high number of goals still went missing for a good part of the season).
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Best end of season presser since Burkie was around. One thing is clear from the press conference -- the lunatics won't be running the asylum anymore. JR, PA and the Hockey Ops team is clearly running the show and the "executive committee" is finally running the team like a business, with proper organizational structure, establishing/meeting deadlines, objective setting/accountability, and making informed/consistent decisions vs. the chaos, the "we ran out of time" excuses, and constant change in strategic direction that went on with the village idiots that preceded them. The frankness (paraphrasing - one of the worst teams breaking out of own zone, lack of structure, too dependent on Demko, players better play under any coach and under any system that they told, etc.) of JR and PA is very refreshing. IMO, removing emotion out of the equation and making difficult and hard decisions based on facts, experience and sensibility is the only way to run any organization. As a Canucks fan, I'm glad to see the team evolving from the mom/pop corner convenience store that it was under Benning/Weisbrod to a sophisticated systems/process-oriented organization that this team was trying to move towards under Gillis/Gilman.
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Whatever floats your boat, champ.
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I really wish everyone would stop feeding the troll. I've got the senile old fur ball with his goofy schtick on ignore but with the feeding of the troll, his posts keep popping up. Maybe JR could trade this goofy old bugger to a KHL team, and he goes the way of Jake Virtanen to be never heard from again.
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Mad respect for your message to Brock and to the rest of us, and for what you've gone through, @fanfor42.
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Has it really been 36 years since the original Top Gun? I was in third year university when this movie came out and watched this in the theater with my girlfriend at the time who got all squirmy during the sweaty love making between Maverick and his instructor. Was the best two dollars I ever spent on a date (that was when there was Two Dollar Tuesdays).
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Seeing how your brought Toffoli into the conversation, Luongo's contract had nothing to do with the team's inability to sign him. Benning, in his infinite wisdom, prioritized the phat puke Virtanen over Toffoli. There was plenty of money left to make up the difference between what the phat puke Virtanen got and what Toffoli would have cost. Personally, OEL is worth the extra money vs. Edler at $6.0M. But Edler at $3.5M/1 year is infinitely better than OEL at $7.26M/6 years. As much as I was happy about the Canucks finally getting rid of what will go down as the worst contract in Canucks history with Loui E riksson, Benning would have served the organization better by taking his lumps and letting the season play out, with a resulting $14M cap space becoming available at the end of this season. But the dumbass ex-GM chose the route that has saddled the Canucks with almost $12.25M for the next several years. I honestly can't understand how Benning and Weisbrod were allowed to phuck the Canucks for the foreseeable future. EDIT: Forgot this was the Rathbone thread...kid is going to press for a spot on the roster next season, for sure. Don't mind that he's a smallish player at 190 lbs, with OEL (200 lbs), Myers (229 lbs), Schenn (227 lbs) and Dermott (205 lbs) balancing the size deficiency. Hughes, Rathbone and OEL as puck movers is a good thing. I think Rathbone has done enough to unseat Hunt on the left side of the third pairing. For all those who are fretting about the defence being too small, have a look at the Wild's defence...Spurgeon is a midget (5'9" 167 lbs), Dumba tops out at 190 lbs., Goglioski is 5'11" 185 lbs, Brodin is 194.
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Are you kidding me? Burrows didn't take any discount. If you are to take what he got paid over his entire tenure with the Canucks, it can be argued that he was more than fairly paid over nearly 12 seasons. His third contract which paid him $2M per season was a team friendly deal, but to put it into context, he signed this contract extension after his 2008-09 break out season. Before that season, he was a run-of-the-mill fourth liner/fringe third liner. He opted for a long term/secure deal (4x2M), a trade off he and his agent made after what was one season of extraordinary play. He was arguably underpaid for the first three seasons of this contract, but he more than made up for it with the 4x$4.5M extension he signed in the final year of his third deal. He was grossly overpaid (or more aptly, had his pay equalized for past services rendered) with his final deal with the Canucks where he was paid $18M to produce 273GP-48G-54A-102PTS-250PM (a small number of these stats with the Sens). His final contract with the Canucks was a patronage contract given to him by Gillis for what he had done in the past because Burrows' game fell off the cliff after the first/second season of this contract. Burrows was paid more than fairly by the Canucks. As far as Miller is concerned, I suspect that he's going to get a pro-rated Blake Wheeler type of deal...that is 5 years at $9.0M to $9.5M AAV. Miller's career trajectory is similar to Wheeler's, so I suspect that Miller will continue to be productive well into the full term of his contract.
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[Report] Dustin Brown announces retirement
bigbadcanucks replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
I vaguely remember that show...the only thing I can vividly recall was how much I hated Dustin Brown's wife. Couldn't believe how much crap Dustin had to take from his wife (if I remember correctly, she was a collegiate hockey player herself). I don't know how valid this is, but I remember reading that Dustin Brown grew up with a bad stuttering problem and was subject to a bunch of bullying because of it. If true, good on him for becoming an NHL player with a long career that included a couple of cups and some decent honors. Hated him and still do, but if I were a GM in the NHL, I'd have a spot on the roster for him. -
It might be wishful thinking on my part, but I believe there is more to Noah Juulsen's game than he's been able to show in the AHL and NHL. Big, RHD, who has the 1st round pedigree is a player worth signing. Hopefully Juulsen will choose to return to the Canucks organization, if given the opportunity.
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Did you miss the games that Horvat went missing in action (10 game stretch after his bout with Covid) and the 30 games where Garland was shooting nothing but blanks? You're awfully generous yourself. Demko, Miller, Hughes and Podkolzin -- totally agree with. Dickison deserves a zero.