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[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Boston Bruins | Feb. 04, 2020
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
We are due for a regulation L anyways. If it is a loss in regulation, it is better to have it against an Eastern Conference opponent. Onto the next one. Looking for Brock to pick up his game back at his home-state. -
[GDT] Nucks @ Bruins - Feb 04 2020 - 4pm Pacific - SNET
ruilin96 replied to xereau's topic in Canucks Talk
Hope Brock steps up his game in his hometown. We are due for a regulation loss anyways, so let’s just move on and win the next several. -
[GDT] Nucks @ Bruins - Feb 04 2020 - 4pm Pacific - SNET
ruilin96 replied to xereau's topic in Canucks Talk
&^@#, why does the score have to be 4-0. Can’t we just avoid the 4 spot... -
[GDT] Nucks @ Bruins - Feb 04 2020 - 4pm Pacific - SNET
ruilin96 replied to xereau's topic in Canucks Talk
Worst guy to get a goal... -
[GDT] Nucks @ Bruins - Feb 04 2020 - 4pm Pacific - SNET
ruilin96 replied to xereau's topic in Canucks Talk
Bull $&!# 2011 reffing all over again! -
[GDT] Nucks @ Bruins - Feb 04 2020 - 4pm Pacific - SNET
ruilin96 replied to xereau's topic in Canucks Talk
One more shot at Petey and should just play goon it up hockey against their star as well -
Because they are all going to be busy buying up all the fresh cheese from the grocery stores in town so Marchand runs out of his pre-game meal. Jk, everyone has different focus when they are on the road. Players are people too. They may have friends/former teammates they want to hang out with; checking out restaurants as well as just tour around the city when there is a chance to do so.
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[GDT] Around the NHL | February (02-08) 2020
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
The age of the player when the contract expires is the key. So if someone signs Buff to a 2 year contract or more, it will consider at 35+ contract. Contracts like this one will carry the same cap hit even if the player and the team mutually agree to terminate the contract. -
[GDT] Around the NHL | February (02-08) 2020
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
This can be done to LE’s contract except, LE has to agree for it to happen. Agreeing to this means LE will be walking way from the remaining millions left in his contract and he will likely get a much lower contract once he walk away from his current one. You are asking a player who is in his 30s to walk away from millions of retirement money, it is not likely to happen. However, Lou is completely different. Lou’s contract expires when Lou is 35+, and it was sign before the new CBA, so it has a cap-recapture penalty if he retires early. If he chose to terminate his contract with his team mutually, the cap hit still remains. The only way to get rid-off Lou’s cap re-capture was for JB to trade for Lou’s rights and then put him on LTIR. It didn’t happen. -
[GDT] Around the NHL | February (02-08) 2020
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
I take our Canucks roster over the Leafs any day. Canucks are full of talented yet, humbled kids who are good people on and off the ice. The Leafs on the other hand... well... -
[GDT] Around the NHL | February (02-08) 2020
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in General Hockey Discussion
Hope the Panthers pound the Leafs tonight. -
I give props to JB and Trevor Linden in keeping the Sedins, Edler Tanev and bring in veteran players like Dorsett, Sutter, Vanek, Beagle and Roussel onto the team for the rebuild. Yes, we overpaid some UFA to sign here but they establish a culture: losing is not acceptable. This is an important culture for young players like Horvat, Virtanen, Boeser, Gaudette and later Pettersson and Hughes to step into. Most of our young core stepped into the team when it was clearly a below average team. But these veteran players here show them we may not win most nights, but we are not going out without a fight. Losing culture is not acceptable, and this sets the tone for these young guys. I blame this current Sabres situation on their former GM Tim Murray. Sabres cleaned the house in 2013-14 season moving on from players like Pominville, Miller etc. In the 2014-15 season, they were doing everything in their power to try and lose every game in order to tank to then very bottom for the best odds at getting Connor McDavid. They literally trade away anybody who gives them a chance to win. A goalie wins 3 games in a row, he is sent packing to another organization the next day. Coach Ted Nolan called out the GM for this, he was fired the next day. Ted Nolan was a coach that was well liked and respected by the players in their locker room. They have moved out all the leaders who sets examples, and got rid off a well respected coach. By that point, the Sabres have no character in their room. It is not just a bad team that is set up to lose for the remainder of that season, but it is also a team full of misery with no heart. Draft lottery screwed them over, they didn’t get McDavid, however, Eichel is a very solid consolation prize. Now the team needs to start to build their way up again. However, the GM has gotten rid off most veterans and leaders who would be there to establish culture, remaining players from last season has lost a lot passion for the game because of what the GM did. Remaining players were miserable and their misery rubs off to the young players and new players joining the team. He then hired Dan Bysma as the new head coach, and Bysma was such a bad fit that by the end of the 2016-17 season, it was rumoured that the entire Sabres team wanted him gone. Jack Eichel even said if Bysma remains as the coach, he won’t sign a contract extension. Murray’s response to this was, “Bysma is my guy and I won’t fire him.” So the result was the owner sent both him and Bysma packing. Jason Botteril was then hired as the new GM. I recalled watching some behind the scenes video on the Sabres YouTube channel from 2014 and 2015. I did not like the way Murray talks or how he establishes himself. He doesn’t strike me as a guy who is liked/respected by the players at all. I personally don’t like his demeanour that was shown on camera. What the current GM needs to do is not just bring in skill, but bring in new players who are character guys to reinvent the culture. I think that’s the biggest problem in Buffalo. I think Murray had destroyed the Sabres culture and that lost culture was never recovered. They never went out and get some of the character veteran guys who are well liked in the locker room to reinvent the culture. Once a team’s culture is destroyed, it is much harder to rebuild it. Rebuilding isn’t simply icing the worst possible line up to lose every game; it is to ice a less talented line up consist of players who do not accept losing at all. It is very hard to find the balance. Props for JB, who found that balance. We were also extremely fortunate to draft Horvat, Boeser, Pettersson and Hughes without getting any draft picks higher than 5th. Not only did we got the players with talent, but also players who are good people off the ice (much harder to find than most think). Horvat spent the majority of his career early on learning from the Sedins; Boeser spent his rookie season with the Sedins; Pettersson came into the league after the twins retired and JB brought in Beagle, Roussel etc. to replace the veteran presence. Now Hughes joins the team and he gets to be around a good group of players. We are very fortunate to have come through our rebuild. I am not an avid follower of the Sabres, but from what I gather this is what I come up. Would love to hear from others especially @SabreFan1’s view on this.
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Interestingly, if he were to reverse his goals and assist (e.g. 29G and 16A) we would not be talking about him slumping but then knowing the internet the new titles could be “is Boeser a selfish player giving his low assists total?”
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[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Carolina Hurricanes | Feb. 02, 2020
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Shootouts are dumb, let’s move onto the next game and beat the Bruins! -
[GDT] Nucks @ Canes - Feb 02 2020 - 11am Pacific - SNET
ruilin96 replied to xereau's topic in Canucks Talk
Still have mine in my garage from 2015. Fingers cross that I get to put it back up in April! -
[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at New York Islanders | Feb. 01, 2020
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Petey and Hughes are the new Sedins. They will set up beautiful plays for years to come! Except this time, one of them is a franchise defenseman, something we arguably have never had. -
[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at New York Islanders | Feb. 01, 2020
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Luke Hughes (youngest of 3) saids hi. Already close to 6 ft, tallest of the 3 brothers, also a Dman. But he has broken Quinn Hughes’s scoring record at the same age in the same league. He is 2021 draft eligible. -
[GDT]: Canucks vs Isles, Feb. 1st, 2020, 10 PST on SNP
ruilin96 replied to Qwags's topic in Canucks Talk
Giordano and the Flames are dirty period. The Flames are one of the dirtiest and gutless team in the league. I hate the Oilers because they are in our division and fighting for the same playoff spots, nothing else. I hate the Flames way more because of their classless players, fans and organization in general. -
[Discussion & Poll] Markstrom, Tanev & Virtanen - One has to go
ruilin96 replied to grandmaster's topic in Canucks Talk
Teams that are desperate for some skill/offence could take a chance on him. Most teams who are interested back off on this season Baertchi because the extra year on the contract. Next year, it is an expiring contract, some team might take a chance. -
[GDT]: Canucks vs Isles, Feb. 1st, 2020, 10 PST on SNP
ruilin96 replied to Qwags's topic in Canucks Talk
Exact same time zone as you my friend. Hope we both wake up to a win tomorrow morning! -
[Discussion & Poll] Markstrom, Tanev & Virtanen - One has to go
ruilin96 replied to grandmaster's topic in Canucks Talk
None of the 3 will be gone. We will find a way to trade Sutter/Baertchi or both to free up some cap space. -
Empty net goals are very important imo. It secures the game. Most of the time, when an ENG is scored, it puts the dagger into the heart of the opposing team for any hopes of coming back to win the game. It is very important. It secures a Regulation Win. I remember for years, we were horrible in those situations and end up giving up the tying goal and sometimes it leads to losses. If 2/3 of Eriksson’s points are empty net points by the end of the season, I don’t care. I love the idea of a line that is very confidence playing in this situation and can almost always score that empty net goal to put away any doubts.
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[GDT]: Canucks vs Isles, Feb. 1st, 2020, 10 PST on SNP
ruilin96 replied to Qwags's topic in Canucks Talk
Clutterbuck disgusts me as a human being. Remember the Boeser incident, where I know it was Boeser who initiated contact and the bench door being opened which led to this scarier and unfortunate situation. Boeser was stretchered off the ice, and we are thankful it wasn’t career ending and we get to see Boeser playing again. Then you look at Clutterbuck’s reaction, he seem like he was proud of what he did, as he help Brazil eliminated his only threat in the Calder race. Similar scenario happened between Sabourin and Backes; Sabourin attempts to hit Backes, and end up getting the worst of the collision. Sabourin needed to be stretchered off the ice and Backes showed distress and remorse even though it wasn’t his fault at all. It tells you a lot about a player when incidents like this happen. I have 0 respect for Clutterbuck and hope we destroy his team. -
[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at San Jose Sharks | Jan. 29, 2020
ruilin96 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
I am pretty sure they gave up a tying goal once when the goalie is pulled in a home game in December against Buffalo. I was at the game and I remember the Sabres scored the tying goal with a min left (empty net) but Canucks won it in OT eventually. I could be wrong as I may see the net empty but the goalie has yet to make it onto their bench thus it is isn’t officially an empty net.