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  1. Until recently, I would have agreed with that. But now that playing in the minors for Canucks includes staying in the same home with your family and fighting less traffic on the way to work, not so much.
  2. Yeah, it seems that after JB's first draft, he adjusted the characteristics he focuses on in subsequent drafts to put more weight on character/determination rather than physical tools.
  3. I think it is simple enough. Instead of cheaping out you just go down to the NHL Coach Store and buy a really good one, the kind that everybody wants. The reason they don't do this is clearly pure cheapness.
  4. You can't debate without using strawmen? Like: "So you think EP and Hughes have no leverage and have to accept whatever Benning feels like offering them because they are RFA?" and "If Benning extreme low balls EP or tells him what you suggest he should" I obviously suggested nothing of the sort. Negotiating is generally not black and white massive win or massive loss. Except when there is the relatively rare situation where the leverage is extremely one-sided such as a heated bidding war (ie: Eriksson, Lucic), in which case there might be, but that is only possible for UFAs. As you acknowledged, Petey has more leverage than Huggy, due to his precise RFA status, so consequently EP will most likely be able to negotiate a more player-favourable deal than will QH, should he wish to. And neither one of them will be able to negotiate the same deal they would be able to if they were UFAs. Their agents know that and every GM knows that. If you suggested to them that there was no difference in the leverage available to RFAs compared to that of UFAs, they would probably laugh at you.
  5. So "ruthless" agents no longer pay any attention to the relative negotiating leverages of the two parties? The agent is going to say, " If you don't pay us the UFA-level money we want, we will just get it from one of the other 31 teams who would love to have this player." And what will the ruthless agent say when JB tells him, "Actually, no you won't; if your RFA player wants to play in the NHL and collect NHL-sized paycheques, he will be playing for our team, period."? That scenario doesn't sound like a ruthless agent, it sounds more like a stupid or ignorant agent.
  6. When Benning took over, the average age of our core was early thirties, in decline and riddled with NMCs and NTCs. Now our core is early twenties, loaded with players who can reasonably be expected to get better and better every year. With quality young players on ELCs joining in every year. The age of the fillers and support players playing out their contracts while the young core ripens, is irrelevant.
  7. I love those reverse hits! Sure hope he makes the big club soon.
  8. Yeah, sure are a lot of "realistic fans" who are determined to support that fundamental tenet of our criminal justice system, "guilty until proven innocent", especially for any Canucks players. It is really important to immediately start crapping all over any Canuck whenever you hear a negative rumour about them, because after all the facts come out, they might be innocent, and a great opportunity will have been wasted.
  9. Don't get so excited trollboy. We can sign him any time in the next year. We still own his rights. When that is no longer the case, then you can jump up and down celebrating the Canucks bad news.
  10. If that is your reason for feeling he has little value in the NHL, then you will be happy to know that you are incorrect. As a matter of FACT, in his 79 NHL games, Tram averaged 1:26 PER GAME of PK time. Personally, when I find that my opinion conflicts with the facts, I change my opinion. Others prefer to change the facts to coincide with their opinions, and fabricate things like, "He does not play on special teams".
  11. Larionov has been coaching him a fair amount. I would be willing to bet the Professor encouraged Podz to come to Vancouver, and I would imagine he is really looking forward to getting here.
  12. For sure, but it slows him down a bit turning to take and deliver passes. For lesser players that could mean time for an opponent to take the puck away, but don't know if that would be much of an issue with Tram. Can you imagine what his reverse hits would be like?
  13. Yes, and that always struck me as a bit odd. Common for offensive players to play their off side for the better scoring angle, but he has always been more of a defensive player.
  14. I wonder if his coach will ever notice the correlation between Podz being on the ice and good things happening for the team?
  15. Sounds pretty typical for a left-wing government. Businesses are evil bottomless pits of money; hosing them down for as much money as possible, to buy the votes of the great ignorant unwashed masses, is the main job of government as the NDP politicians see it. The story of the goose that laid the golden eggs was apparently not on their reading list as children.
  16. I wonder why their coach only puts that young guns line together when he is desperate. Because when he does, it seems to produce like a first line.
  17. Both Edler and Ohlund looked like mid-career veterans from the moment they first stepped onto NHL ice. That is extremely unusual for rookie Dmen, and expecting it from other rookies is not reasonable, as very few of them are capable of that.
  18. Funny how his coach doesn't seem to see the correlation between the first two sentences and the last sentence.
  19. That handful of games also eliminates the chance of other teams offer sheeting the player at the end of the ELC, along with the players rights to arbitration, each of which substantially weakens the players negotiating leverage. Saying "all it means is they need a new contract an entire season early" is far from the truth. I guarantee you that GMs and agents, who need to negotiate in the real world, don't see it that way. That "loophole" will probably save us about a million per year on Huggy's next contract. I am quite sure that JB is happy not to need to worry about offer sheets or arbitration, while the players agent would much prefer to have those options.
  20. When someone points out that your opinion conflicts with the facts, if you were to acknowledge that you were wrong, people would be less likely to continue to point out your error.
  21. It is indeed beyond debate, but that doesn't stop some of the more determined JB haters from continuing to pretend that it isn't true and crapping on JB for not committing the team to another 4 years of this unfortunately rather fragile player.
  22. "Toss aside"? You mean when JB made the intelligent decision to replace an aging injury prone Dman and a big hearted but physically too small Dman with significantly more useful upgrades? You would seriously rather have Tanev and Stecher than Schmidt and Hamonic? Wow.
  23. Nothing at all wrong with that idea. Better to ignore the mindless ranting of the "realistic fans".
  24. Anybody who checked out our schedule at the beginning of the season and was aware of the fact that the replacements for our number one goalie, our number one defensive Dman, a top six forward and another Dman had not even met their teammates yet, would not have been hugely surprised by our terrible start.
  25. This obviously makes a huge difference in cost, but the "realistic fans" like silky and k25 will completely ignore this and any other facts or logic that conflict with their determination to spew their bile all over the team and anyone who supports it.
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