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And I don't know why BB wouldn't try Podz on the PK. I guess Bruce never watched any of the WJ games when Podz was Russia's captain - he was on the 1st unit PK (as well as 1st unit PP) on that team I suppose when you've coached 1000 games and won 600 of them you get set in your ways and resist adapting to change. If we adopted a pressure PK, then someone like Hoagie would thrive, he'd come up with the puck 2 out of 3 times if he challenged a player, but our clog the lanes and block the shots approach isn't Hogz style - just leads to more injuries a la Miller last year Petey excels at the PK, cos as he has said, with his hockey IQ his mindset when out there is to think what he would do in the shooters position, and then react to his thought, thus frequently anticipating exactly what happens. He's going to get a bushel of shorthanded chances before this season is over. (shades of the glory days of Bure, Courtnall and Mogilny)
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Predict The Score Contest: VAN @ MTL November 9 2022
Googlie replied to goalie13's topic in Canucks Talk
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[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Ottawa Senators | Nov. 08, 2022
Googlie replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Didn't he have surgery in the off-season to deal with a nagging 2 year discomfort? Maybe he's not yet 100% on mobility this season Yes he did ..... Demko suffered an undisclosed lower-body injury in an April 19 home game against the Ottawa Senators. He stayed in the game, which the Canucks lost 4-3 in a shootout to end a six-game winning streak. Desperate to keep his team in the playoff race, Demko played hurt the next two games, allowing five goals in each during losses in Minnesota and Calgary, skewing his own statistics downward before coming out of the lineup. He still won’t reveal the injury but confirmed it required surgery right after the season. -
Ah yes - the Schaeffer for Salo trade I still remember his rookie camp where he persuaded all the non-NHLers at camp to dye their hair blonde. Iirc there were over 30 players at camp with blonde hair
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Predict The Score Contest: VAN @ OTT November 8 2022
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Thoughtful piece in today's CanucksArmy, comparing Jack's situation with Ethan Bear's ...... Jack Rathbone is a borderline third-pairing defenceman. His greatest haters will quickly point out that his in-zone defending needs work and that he’s prone to the odd giveaway, and you’re not going to get any pushback here on that. Both are fair criticisms of Rathbone’s game. But to examine this a step further let’s look at what the Canucks are currently deploying ahead of Rathbone. We already talked about Stillman’s rough past couple of games, but we’re not going to pick on one player. This is about the Canucks’ defence corps as a whole. What the Canucks have outside of Quinn Hughes, Tyler Myers — and OEL if we’re being generous — are a bunch of 6/7 defencemen. They’ve seemingly cornered the market on bottom-pairing defencemen. To many, having this argument is silly because the margin between Jack Rathbone, Kyle Burroughs, Riley Stillman, Travis Dermott, Tucker Poolman — and hell even Oliver Ekman-Larsson on some nights — is razor-thin. And that’s absolutely true. But the big difference is that only one of these defencemen was a point-per-game player in the AHL last season and represents the organization’s only real shot at developing a puck-moving defence prospect. The Canucks absolutely need legit top-four defencemen, and out of all the names mentioned, we can pretty well guarantee none of them have as good of a shot as Rathbone at turning into that by being in the lineup. Ethan Bear serves as a good lesson that it feels too many are missing. Bear showed top four upside, was deployed as a top four in Edmonton, did pretty well, was given up on in Carolina, and is being given more of an opportunity in Vancouver. The early returns on Bear are certainly good, and suggest that this management team was right in their declaration that Bear is indeed a top four defenceman. But what if Bear was instead told to continue to sit in the press box each and every night as he did in Carolina? And further, what if this happened to Bear while he was in Edmonton and he was never even given the chance to prove himself in the first place? Because the latter scenario is essentially where Rathbone finds himself now. Sitting with all his top four upside that we’ve heard so much about and seen flashes of in the press box, watching his team amass a record of 1-8 while he’s not in the lineup. With him, the Canucks have won two of the three games they’ve won this season. Was he the reason for the wins? Almost certainly not, but he also isn’t costing the Canucks anything on nights he’s playing, despite the occasional gaffe when trying to do something few — especially on the Canucks’ blueline — can do with the puck. What’s the worst that could happen from the Canucks playing Rathbone? Lose? Because they’ve already lost all but one of the games they’ve tried to play without him. As for the best? The best is that the Canucks can point to Rathbone as one of their greatest development accomplishments. A fourth-round pick who elected not to test free agency after his NCAA career because he was loyal to the team who believed in him when others didn’t, turning into an NHL regular top-four defenceman? It would hands down be the Canucks’ best non-goaltending development story from the past ten or so years. Instead, Rathbone continues to sit and wait for his name to be called. Sure, right now, the difference between he and those ahead of him in the lineup isn’t significant. But the only real way to see who’s going to make their way out of the Ocean of Sbisas is to give them a chance to swim instead of diving in to take them out of the water at the first sign of distress while throwing inflatables to everyone else. Heres the full article: https://canucksarmy.com/news/the-stanchies-kuzmenko-hands-ethan-bear-emergence-rathbone-manifesto
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Yeah. - i guess 99 points to 81 (current, extrapolated) is down
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Not a bad suggestion - grooming Podz as a center. As Deb said earlier, he plays all over the ice (like a typical Russian-coached rover center). So have Cull and Hank work with him to develop center skills. He did take quite a few face-offs in his World Junior captaincy stint. He could be a prototypical 3rd line Center