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Among all NHL defensemen with at least 22 games played in hits-per-game:

Biega - 3.0 - 7th

Del Zotto - 2.9 - 10th

Gudbranson 2.5 - 19th

Edler - 2.3 - 29th

Who said we don't have a physical team?

A lot easier to throw hits when you don't have the puck...

But MDZ has been a solid pickup for the Canucks this season. He's been asked to play much more of a defensive role than he is used to. 

Figured Edler would've shattered into a million pieces of sugar glass by now. 

Looks great, but now I am going to need a vertical wallet.

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can you send me a couple o thousand of them ...jimmy 

i wanna get a good look at them and compare them

a big thank you in advance

thankuverymuch

 

 

if I had 'em C.V 

Really good to hear, I hope Brock comes back stronger than ever. Glad I got to see him play live this year.

a signed brock boeser rookie card. and if stan smyl is there, can you ask him how his brother harvey is doing? 

I'm not sure if they cost anything, they were offered as part of our season tix 

I"ll try to track down Stan 

Don’t forget Edler’s broken stick.  

it gets out of proportion when the media takes say the 10% of really negative feelings and projects that to be the entire 'fan base'. thats what bugs me. 

Not only are the local media (1040 especially) negative and self-serving, but they are gutless for deflecting blame onto the fans. Time for people to straight up ignore 1040, the Provies, anything Ed Willes writes, and Jeff Patterson in general. In the same breath, people should see Freidman for the same type of clown as the rest of these fools.

remember sekeres was blaming people that watched the super bowl on american networks and that was the reason ctv people in Vancouver lost there jobs

picks or maybe packaged with Hutty? dunno. I'm not overjoyed with today but its not a disaster either. Its more of the wait and see variety. 

I see today as a sideways move.  We got two guys, who are likely better than Baer and Goldy, but who aren't really going to be part of our rebuilt team.  They are just (IMHAO) slightly better placeholders.

@Alflives I'm pretty happy to get Leipsic actually, I wonder if he could be our next Burr? or Dane Fox I suppose. We'll find out soon enough. 

Jim brought a knife to a gun fight. He doesn't have a lot to work with this year, if he is able to move Vanek I'll be surprised, but I won't be if the noon press conference tomorrow is him telling us that he didn't get a single real offer. 

I won't be surprised either, seems like there are more teams looking to move pieces this year and more teams seem to feel like they're out of it at this point in the season. We've got some moveable pieces but there are better pieces available.

Vanek's the kind of guy that gets moved in the last hour as a consolation prize for a team that missed out on their real target.  The rest of our guys either have little to no trade value, or have enough term that we can move them at another point if the return is right.

Glad Benning got his extension before the deadline so he doesn't feel pressured into making a bad trade.

There's probably a good reason people keep linking Karlsson to Tampa Bay. They're the team in the league that is most equipped to get Karlsson without ruining their prospect pool or making their current team less competitive.

There is literally nothing that we could reasonably offer.

I see Tampa before Edmonton.

Scuz Affair? My goodness, really? Sure it wasn't a pristine club full of lights and TVs, but when you can rub shoulders with Trent Reznor, Chris Cornell, and the like in the 90s without pretense and enjoy some drinks and combustibles, it's legendary, Kneel.

Hahaha I'm quoting friends who called it that. It used to be a gay establishment then the last time I was there-there was a mosh pit.

Yeah. The last time I was there they played Tool, NIN, Rage Against the Machine, Soundgarden, Depeche Mode, the Cure, New Order, and many more songs well into the night.

I defy a club in Vancouver's generic downtown core to boast that kind of breadth of music now.

Another great thing about Luv-A Fair was that it was a place where anyone was welcome, and everyone felt welcome.

Heh, if we're punching above our weight, what is Norway doing? 

@Wilbur This...

Unlike the U.S., where we keep score of everything all the time, Norway puts kids in sports but doesn’t let them keep score until age 13. The idea is to make sports part of their social development so that the motivation to stay involved is to have fun with their friends, not winning.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/winter-olympics-2018/2018/02/18/norway-dominating-2018-winter-olympics-medal-count/350369002/

We've come a loonnnnnng way from Calgary in 1988. 

Just saying.

Lol @Alflives

I think the roster could use a bit of additional roughage too.

@Alflives nah, its just the last time I posted something like this Jim made a trade so I'm trying to move things along 

 Crystal ball says he has TWO days, or he's fired!

At the deadline though you often get higher value then one expects. Personally Im hoping for a straight across trade of Hutton and Domi

Yeah, that depends on the market. This one is shaping up to favour buyers more than sellers, but that trade would be intriguing if TG or TC felt we already had a replacement for Hutton in waiting.

Holm and Pouliot now, Juolevi next season. 

Say you trade Hutton this deadline and Pouliot or Holm excel with more minutes then you know your set at LD that offseason, don't need to sign anyone and can start Juolevi in AHL. If you don't trade Hutton you may not know what you have in Pouliot and Holm and could lose one of them.

I agree though that you need to get good value. I think my minimum value for Hutton is a second round pick

He has one good game. Let's see if it keeps up

All I can say is at least he looked faster than Kyle Wellwood

It's almost as if 5 games in a depth role isn't a big enough sample size hmmmm....

if the the sedins come back which is their right and have earned it, the 'C'  has to be handed to Bo at season's end, it's a lead follow or get out of the way situation, another season of floundering leadership isn't what's needed.

If SJS can let go of Marleau on happy terms surely we can make a switch here too. But I don't see Linden allowing the stripping the C from Hank given how that happened to him. I like Linden but wonder sometimes if he can separate his feelings of loyalty from his former team mates and make the cold, logical decisions you have to make as a manager sometimes for the good of a business overall. 

@Jimmy McGill its only theory ,but I think TL's loyalty combined with JB's desire to finish the rebuild ,retool whatev  has caused a rift in their their  business relationship ,hence the wait and see approach to jb's contract and how that relates to the wait and see approach  that there is with the sedins? , just a theory..

At least Burr made it to the league.

Guy should have won the Masterton for exposing the NHL refs for the criminals they are.  Unfortunately the NHL decided to shoot the messenger instead of forcing the referees to act like professionals.  Burrows got one criminal fired but there needs to be a cultural change in order to make the league respectable. 

Thanks for Dahlen, Ottawa. The drop-off in Burr's play the last few years has been astounding. I wouldn't be surprised if he retired at the end of the season, but who knows. I'll always remember him as being the player he was here, but it's tough to watch him as the player he is now.

I'd be thrilled, though I think it would be over the top to expect him to ever reach Bert's level. There are very few players who have played the power forward role as well as Bertuzzi. If he's half the player Bertuzzi was, I'll be thrilled.

He has way more speed than Bert and if he starts actually hitting the net with his lazer who knows ?

At this point if he turns into a productive 3rd liner I'll be happy.

I dunno exactly, I'm just goofing around. It sounds like from the twitterverse that we're not on the list of teams he wants to go to, and thats just fine by me. 

Send him to Philly where he can eat $&!# with that Eagles fan.

I jest, of course.

For goals, he's sure had, quite the stash

With weak teams, he's lingered like rash

Sure milked the game

No true claim to fame

Forget the Hall, for winger, Rick Nash

I like Guddy. But there's no way he deserves long term unless he wants to get real on his ask.

He hasn't shown enough of anything to earn any more than his current salary.

@luckylager we'd be paying for potential thats true... its a risk but when you look at the other  UFA D out there I'm not sure who else we could get. I'm still going with the Willie Mitchell seal of approval on Guddy. 

$4m max seal of approval.

Guy hardly ever plays ffs

Those are some big earrings.

@c00kies its all about balance 

I'm proud to say I noticed the dog before I read the text.

Sorry for this but how do I status update. Every time I click "what's on my mind?" It goes to my profile. Thanks for the help

hey SB - when you go to your profile, there should be a text box at the top that says 'write a public message...." where you can type in your update 

I appreciate the help. This is what I am looking at.... Am I blind?

Cool idea, might be able to make it happen too

Nice suggestion!!! =)

nice job @StealthNuck  

once boeser gets scoring again people will be happier

That's because I'm not there to give the gift of twilight ;D

@Twilight Sparkle i'll buy you beer if u come back 

If they don't extend JB, as a fan of 35+ years I am done with this team until Aquaman sells it. He was brought into a mess, to rebuild a mess, had no prospect pool and was handcuffed the first few years by having to try and make the playoffs and rebuild, you can't and re builds take time. He's in year 3 of the real changes, everyone can see he's done a magnificient job drafting and re-stocking, and his bad moves have not handcuffed the team in any manner. He has a built a pipeline the strongest I have ever seen (at least in potential) in all my years as a fan, and should get the opportunity to finish the job and see this team come to fruition. if Aquaman is simply looking at points he clealry is not a good businessman because JB is setting this team up for a decade or more of runs at the cup. #re-signjb

@BoeserSnipe ahh don't do that. Just curse Aquilini every time Boeser or Gaudette scores. 

If jb isn't re-signed we riot

75% of his monthly income is subsidized by United Colours of Benetton & The Gap!

#littleknowndata

i did not know that 

Yeah..they get to dress him up. High-profile positions being today's catwalk.

Whatever happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas, not going to worry about it.

@PhillipBlunt - it was 650 trying to make it a thing. What really annoyed me is them trying to make it a "fan" issue, like we're the ones that would be outraged or something. It was 1040 worthy. 

That's pretty pathetic on their part. I hope fan distrust of the media starts growing in this city. It's high time.