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  1. Reminds me of that funny dog video when anyone says that (be warned of some language).
  2. This ought to be a straight up trade for JV. Neither is more valuable than the other.
  3. 1) no one here is crying other than JV fans 2) I never said anything about my post re who I wanted instead. Hindsight is always 20/20 but that wasn’t my point. I said folks need to stop living the 6th OA history. 3) you’re wrong, he is not a solid NHL’er and you need to take your blinders off. MG had been very patient with JV and there are no more opportunities to give him. He is what he is and there are reasons why he is in and out of the lineup.
  4. Unfortunately Jake has been a 6th OA bust. A fringe NHL’er at best. He will be in and out of the lineup here on. He is no longer a prospect and needs to be treated as what he is. A marginal bottom 6 player who had all the opportunities to be otherwise but couldn’t do it. Too many folks still clinging on to his draft position. To those is I say it’s ok, it happens to every team! Time to move on about this...
  5. Wow. I just googled that story. So he was pestering a porn star to get him dates and she was getting bothered by him. What a loser
  6. It’s now apparent that the Canucks were a team that relied too much on goaltending that would steal the show (Marky in the regular season/earlier playoff round and Demko in the later playoff round). The team doesn’t know how to play defence and they take stupid penalties. Green’s coaching abilities were masked by the goaltending and now that masks has come completely off. Time to say good bye
  7. That’s it. I’ve had enough. It’s time for JB to be fired. I did not like this off season whatsoever. He let go the MVP of the team in Markstrom and let go one of the best bang for your buck forwards in TT. Thats 10M in salary they could have obtained from not signing Holtby (4.5) , JV (2) and packaging Sutter (4.5) with a second pick for a bag of pucks.
  8. Time to bench Rousell. He takes dumb penalties and has lost his ability to score goals
  9. Great so knocking him down won’t entice him to quit....
  10. This defence was definitely the best ever. Mention should also go out to the goalie when analyzing a teams defence. Luongo was arguably the greatest Canuck goalie ever. 2011 was the greatest team ever assembled in Canuck history. That team dominated the NHL in every aspect. Still a painful memory re how it all crumbled in game 7 of the Finals.
  11. True but I will say that it was a kill or be killed mentality back then. There was no mercy for vulnerable players. Those things happened. Sucks that this play likely caused us to lose to Cup that year. I originally got into hockey because of the old Oilers and when Messier came to Vancouver I was ecstatic. I went from expecting a Stanley Cup to seeing one of the darkest years in Canuck history. Messier never even tried. I attended a few games and eventually became bitter watching him not do any of what he was famous for. He stayed well clear of the net, skated slowly and had zero physicality. I remember an accurate write up on him back in the day which described him as having “the strength of an 18 wheeler and the speed of a Ferrari”. It was clear that he was only here for the money and didn’t want to win. His strength was more of jalopy with the speed of a Neon. Ever since, I’ve hated this guy and cringe when I hear of that NHL “leadership” award.
  12. Benning has shown he can make great draft picks and the odd trade like JT Miller. He has a terrible time with contract negotiations. He never gets those good deals for the team, it has been mostly above average to high cost (This year was shockingly unlike him and he seemed to refuse to pay below average cost for TT).
  13. That exit from a few years ago cost him a certain level of play that he lost and obviously couldn’t get back.
  14. Because there is an informal blacklist that these teams have with one another. Offer sheets for RFA’s will rarely ever happen.
  15. This season ought to just be cancelled. The players will not do a season in a bubble. Things are not going to be better for months. It takes time for folks to be vaccinated and it’s been made clear that the NHL will not be jumping the queue....
  16. Sad end to a great player. I can’t see him come back. On another note, the Caps better figure out their goaltending situation. It’s very slim pickings out there....
  17. A 48hr bender sounds like a lot of damage. There is no way they get that money back!
  18. What he did was not bad in terms of protesting. It was peaceful, on his own time and wasn’t wearing Canuck colours or saying anything about representing the Canucks. Governments, police agencies and courts have all created precedents to allow protests even if it contravenes minor laws (such as jaywalking or even not wearing masks like these days in non socially distant settings). He never organized it. All he did was add his own personal opinion to it. You can agree with it or not (I personally don’t agree with him). Folks do have constitutional rights to protest and it’s backed by all of what I mentioned. He could have a wrongful dismissal case here.
  19. I’m gonna sound like a prick but I call this Karma for breaking Mason Raymond’s back during the 2011Stanley Cup Finals. That hit still burns me today. Not even a penalty call. No where near the puck. “Deliberately by accident”.
  20. https://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/2058222 New York Islanders defenseman Johnny Boychuk's career is over as a result of an eye injury he suffered during the 2019-20 season, the club announced Wednesday. The injury was his second to the same eye. A skate clipped the veteran blue-liner's face during a game in March, requiring 90 stitches to repair the cut. He missed the rest of the regular season but returned for three playoff games. "I knew there was something going on but I didn't want to think about it because I wanted to play," he said Wednesday, according to The Athletic's Arthur Staple. "You try to play through everything, and I did." Boychuk, who'll turn 37 in January, played parts of 13 seasons in the NHL and spent the last six with New York. He won the Stanley Cup with the Boston Bruins in 2011, and the Bruins traded him to the Islanders on the eve of the 2014-15 season. Known for his ability to tee up blistering and accurate slap shots, the longtime rearguard produced 54 goals and 206 points in 725 contests. The Colorado Avalanche selected Boychuk 61st overall in 2002.
  21. We’ll see. At least the Hawks got some Cups in the beginning unlike our current salary cap anchor in LE. Instead of Cups, LE scored on his own net in that first game and became the epitome of being an “empty net specialist” and a star of “little things”
  22. Good for him to want to keep going. Lol! Not like he has a choice. Sure he can retire, but that’s about 28M left on his contract. No one is walking away from that. I can’t see how he could play well anymore. Pretty much a PR stunt and definitely a very bad contract for years to come.
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