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    Loui Eriksson | #21 | LW/RW

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    13 hours ago, Timråfan said:

    Talk to James about the comparision but I presume you're to chicken for that. B)

    Your like that guy that starts a fight and then runs away.

    As I said before, you were much better when you tried to be smart/funny. 

    Are you butthurt because I use the word try? 

     

    Loui let Horvat have fun. So you should be glad for Horvat instead. 

    Sounds like you're the one who is "butthurt" :rolleyes:

     

    You posted it all humble brag style and I'm just pointing out that the comparison is flawed, much like your logic or your false accusations of my lack of intelligence and humor.

     

    AND you misused "you're", "too", and "your" - just so you know!

     

    To each, their own! Get Loui on the bus to Utica ASAP!

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    WASTING POWER PLAYS

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    Wow we are really scraping the bottom of the barrel for troll threads now that the Canucks have regained their form, eh?

     

    Like really? A powerplay thread? What's next, "The top six forwards need to step up their game - we're just not scoring enough"?

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    Loui Eriksson | #21 | LW/RW

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    Posted · Edited by BrockBoester

    17 minutes ago, Timråfan said:

    The words from @JamesB should be in here: "the Horvat, Pearon, Eriksson line is playing great hockey since being put together, maybe Green's version of trying Burrows with the Sedins (which worked out okay). The Horvat line is playing heavy shutdown minutes and still outscoring and outchancing the guys they are up against."

     

    How bias isn't that. :bigblush:

    That's a failed comparison, as Eriksson is no Burrows, and Horvat/Pearson as good as they are are not the Sedins.

     

    Eriksson is more like the Morrison to the WCE. Except not nearly as good as Morrison either. If Horvat and Pearson are gonna carry someone on their line, it should be someone more productive, and someone more in our long-term plans.

     

    I still honestly hope that Loui returns to the pressbox when our injured forwards return to the lineup, because he's just taking the top six spot of someone else that would do much better there - like Jake, Gaudette, Leivo, maybe even Ferky, etc etc

     

    Just say no to Loui "The slouch" Eriksson! I'm sorry if this makes you feel that he's been bullied!

     

    :bigblush:

    Unsung hero so far???

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    Posted

    25 minutes ago, Shirotashi said:

    OH yeah he does do you even listen bro? He definitely gets credit. Listen to a CBC broadcast one of these

    days. They drool over the guy and they should hes an absolute stud. He reminds me of Yzerman, not that 

    I think hes that good but with his demeanor and chill level.

    I'm aware he gets lots of credit

     

    I'm saying he should get even more lol

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    Article - Canucks’ Pearson on pace for career year thanks to remarkable turnaround

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    Posted · Edited by BrockBoester

    https://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/nhl/canucks-pearson-pace-career-year-thanks-remarkable-turnaround/

     

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    VANCOUVER – If you had three guesses to name the Vancouver Canucks‘ leading scorer the last eight weeks, you would probably strike out because even Tanner Pearson wouldn’t guess Tanner Pearson.

     

    Elias Pettersson is going to the NHL All-Star Game, J.T. Miller has been a revelation on the West Coast and Brock Boeser is quietly constructing another excellent season.

     

    But nobody on the Canucks’ 6-40-9 Lotto Line has cashed in as much as Pearson has over the last 23 games, when the 27-year-old has amassed 10 goals and 24 points while continuing to play a two-way game that frequently sees him matched alongside centre Bo Horvat against the opposition’s best forwards.

     

    Pettersson has 23 points, including 13 goals, over this period and Miller and Boeser each has 21 points in Vancouver’s last 23 games, so the internal scoring race is close.

     

    But what makes Pearson’s production especially remarkable is that the winger, who was traded by both the Los Angeles Kings and Pittsburgh Penguins last season, is suddenly on pace for a career year after enduring a 14-game goal drought that saw him collect just two assists from mid-October until mid-November.

     

    After he went pointless on five shots in a 2-1 loss to the New Jersey Devils on Nov. 10, Pearson told Sportsnet: "I’m here to help the team win… and I’m not carrying my weight right now. I’m trying not to get frustrated but, at the same time, there’s a tipping point for everything."

    Well, things have tipped alright.

     

    Pearson had a goal and two assists in the Canucks’ 7-5 win Thursday against the Chicago Blackhawks. It was his second straight three-point game, and Vancouver’s sixth consecutive victory.

     

    Pearson, who learned his 200-foot game under former L.A. coach Darryl Sutter and won a Stanley Cup with the Kings in 2014, is on pace to shatter his previous-best of 44 points set during the 2016-17 season.

     

    With 12 goals and 18 assists through 41 games, Pearson projects to tie his career-high of 24 goals. For the season, he is fifth on the Canucks in scoring and Vancouver is one of only two Western Conference teams with five forwards at 30 points or better. The Vegas Golden Knights are the other.

     

    "Last year, frustration set in for sure," Pearson said. "Even if you look at my 14-game goal-less streak this year, frustration could have crept in really easily there. But I was still getting my looks. I was an inch off on a shot or I hit a post. Eventually they were going to go in, and once one did, they kind of kept going in.

     

    "I think after last year, it’s been a bit easier not to get frustrated. I think I’ve learned to stick with it. When things aren’t going your way, eventually they should if you just put your nose to the ground and keep working. I think that’s what I took most out of last year."

     

    A 2012 first-round draft pick from Barrie of the Ontario Hockey League, Pearson spent six years in the Kings organization before L.A. traded him to Pittsburgh for Carl Hagelin last Nov. 14. Only 3 ½ months later, the Penguins forwarded him to the Canucks for Erik Gudbranson on Feb. 25.

    Both Hagelin and Gudbranson have since changed teams again.

     

    The Canucks are keeping Pearson.

     

    "He’s just a good all-around player who does a lot of grunt work that goes unnoticed," Canucks coach Travis Green said. "He has won. He knows what it takes to win and he knows the areas that are important on the ice. He’s a good example for guys that play a 200-foot game and can still score, still get points

     

    Vancouver looks like a turning point for Pearson, who had nine goals in 19 games playing with Horvat at the end of last season.

     

    Green helped rebuild Pearson’s confidence.

     

    "Our first meeting, he said: ‘Come here and work. I don’t really care about the rest of it,’" Pearson recalled. "That was encouraging because I didn’t have to worry about putting up points. Then with hard work, the puck started going in and I finished the year strong. He had confidence in me."

    Green explained: "When things haven’t gone well for a player where it has gone well before, they can get inside their own head a little bit. There’s something to be said, I think, for feeling like the coach believes in you or the team does."

     

    At six-foot-one and 201 pounds – and with a Stanley Cup ring, which are scarce in the Vancouver dressing room – Pearson is built for playoff hockey. Actually, he’s built for any hockey, but could be even more important to the Canucks in the second half of the season.

     

    "The way I grew up in this league, if you were getting points but not doing your duty in your own end, you weren’t going to play no matter how many points you put up," Pearson said. "I think for me, taking care of those things in D-zone coverage, making plays on the wall and being hard on the forecheck and that kind of stuff, that’s where I find my game. And the (scoring) kind of takes care of itself."

     

    The Canucks can match their longest winning streak in nine years when the New York Rangers visit Rogers Arena on Saturday.


    Interesting (and quite lengthy read) about the fruits of the Gudbranson trade. Looks like GMJB won another trade there, eh?

     

     

     

     

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    Biggest Positive and Negative Surprises at the Halfway Point

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    2 minutes ago, 6of1_halfdozenofother said:

    Pos: relatively healthy heading into the 2nd half

     

    Neg: it's the 50th, for &^@#'s sake.  Why haven't more members of the '94 and '82 teams (and '11, for that matter) been celebrated?  Linden and Bure are the two that stick out the most.  A lack of Naslund and Luongo (though the latter might be understandable, given the predicament we're in) also seems to be conspicuous.

    The season's only halfway over - maybe there's more to come?

     

    Would be nice to see Naz, Lou and Bure - Linden is probably unlikely - but this season the big celebration to come is for players that are due for their numbers to be raised - Henrik and Daniel Sedin.

    Unsung hero so far???

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    Posted

    2 hours ago, 189lb enforcers? said:

    Miller doesn’t get enough credit? 

    Come now... 

     

    He'll get enough credit when one (or all) of the following happens:

     

    1) Everyone admits he was worth a 1st round pick

     

    2) His face is plastered on billboards and bus stops around downtown Vancouver

     

    3) He scores the Stanley Cup winning goal and is named Conn Smythe winner

    Biggest Positive and Negative Surprises at the Halfway Point

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    Posted · Edited by BrockBoester

    I loves me a good survey!

     

    I would have said poll had it not sounded too.. innuendo-ish

     

    Miller, Hughes, Gaudette, Virtanen, Benn, Myers, Leivo, and Pearson have been a pleasant surprise for me to varying degrees this season, and that's a great sign

     

    Biggest disappointment so far has to be Ferky (although I still believe he could turn it around) but also the greatly "misused and bullied" Loui the plug Eriksson. And I don't care that he's been playing decently on a line with Bo and Pearson for the last cup of coffee or so. You wanna talk about a player that isn't worth his price tag, Eriksson is a prime example. Still glad we never ended up with Lucic though lol

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