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Kovalchuk

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  1. Well, Saturday night has been ruined fairly quickly. Maybe they'll battle back
  2. Gibson been struggling a bit late lately. 4-2 nucks . Petey, Horvat, Podkolzin, Miller
  3. I hate when people use the bleak history of this team as a comparable for how good Benning was. Let's "up" the bar a bit Just for poops and gigs let's compare my boys from ATL and my boys from Benning's Canucks; Atlanta had a horrible expansion pool to select from. They also had awful management who truly didn't care about hockey and had an extremely low player pay-roll year after year. Benning started with a team full of Gillis players(Many still valued and tradeable) and since then was adamant about trading young assets for NHL ready players, going crazy in free agency/spending to the cap and trying to be competitive. If you exclude Atlanta's first season which was their first glimpse at what their expansion scraps looked like and Benning's first season with a Gillis product, their next 6 seasons are basically identical in win % 45.34(190-229) for ATL 46.61(186-213) for VAN. Both Making the playoffs once in that timeframe Benning spent hundreds of Millions of dollars, traded away a boat load of picks leaving us with a barren prospect pool and in return gave us 6 seasons of the Vancouver Thrashers.
  4. The punch and high-stick weren't vicious enough to even come close to causing any harm or injury. Honestly not sure how anyone get's suspended 6 games for that
  5. He couldn't even see where the puck was, he was turned the other way and falling down and it went off the side of his heel
  6. Right, I meant his first assist was a lucky one. He was definitely just falling down and it hit his foot but yeah overtime play was nice
  7. Yeah he made some funky moves out there, nice play in Overtime, lucky assist on the one goal, ended up with 2 points today. Needs to generate shots though. 16 sog in his last 12 games
  8. Our D-men are physical we just need a few forwards like that. We punish them when they're in our zone but don't when we're in there's
  9. Why do the refs always punish the guy who get's beat up and literally tries to follow the rules to avoid a penalty
  10. I don't know, he's been showing his special play lately, glimpses of two-three seasons ago but the way he just gets plastered against the boards, knocked down etc is just so disheartening. Not to mention it makes him one wrong hit away from injury every time, he's just too damn skinny and weak
  11. I think Petterson is a huge elephant in the room, nobody wants to talk about it and I get it, we need him to work out but right now and most of last year he just doesn't look like a guy that can carry this team. Not even close
  12. No team at the cap should ever be as bad as we were. Team's as bad as us during Benning tenure were teams like Arizona who literally give tickets away practically for free and would scrape and claw just to be at the cap floor. There was no room, effort or ability to get creative, we didn't weaponize any cap to get extra picks, assets, we made horrible signings, we let players walk at the deadline, we traded a boat load of picks for players that didn't work out. It was a complete and utter mess
  13. 6-4 sweden final end Canada's curling teams eliminated
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