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Everything posted by Gaudette Celly
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Would surely get more butts in the seats.
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It's of course a small sample size, but the argument certainly could be made that Horvat helps the team and provides an element that the team needs and is missing. If he were a veteran player doing this, would there be any argument? Very few players come in their draft year, and fewer still are put into a significant role in their first season. If he stays it is not only because he's helping the team, but because Benning and company have determined it's the best thing for his development as well. JB pretty much stated when he got here that Horvat was our best prospect, so it's certainly not in his (and the team's) best interests to be short-sighted and hinder his future by rushing or holding him back, especially with the team playing well as it is. If they want to keep him, room will be made.
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I'm hoping the poor GA is due to the new system, and that Bieksa and Hamhuis have had slow starts. But offense isn't required from the fourth line; rather, if they can pin the other team in the offensive zone while not giving up anything in their own and occasionally popping one or drawing a penalty, isn't that all we should expect? If that's the case, then Horvat makes more sense there right now. Minimally, he's more suited ultimately to the third line, but would think he'd fare well with guys like Dorsett and Hansen on the fourth to start. Seems Willie is still in the process of learning his players, but so far it seems he's working them into the roles they work best.
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Only by trolls who simply can't get over not having him. He's not a Canuck, deal with it. Toronto has a team, and they'll take any fans -- even fickle ones.
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That's fine, but then it calls pretty much everything that's happened into question as just being a puppet show with no substance but polishing a turd. The results so far belie that belief.
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Jake was going down both wings in the game, but more often down the left side as he could receive the puck and shoot on the fly, or pull up over the blueline to make a forehand play. Certainly was making the D back off, respecting his speed.
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So Linden knows nothing about business let alone hockey, the food and experience had been great, and Gillis had the team going in the right direction? These changes were all just window dressing, a "horse and pony show from the Canucks brass to make the fan base happy"? Nothing to do with the actual quality of the product being offered, just gimmicks?
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Which have been the others?
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He hits and gets a piece of guys whenever he has the opportunity, but so far seems to do it all cleanly.
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Bryukvin figured he'd lean in and wedge Virtanen off the... er, nope.
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He will definitely need to be paired up with a fast and skilled center that can keep up with him in both. As of now, looks like that would be McCann.
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Kid's got some real strength -- wipes a guy out by just shoving him into the boards, and fires the puck hard yet effortlessly.
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Could you just imagine, in a few years Virtanen coming in here with Winnipeg or Toronto and lighting us up? Absolutely no end to the shame.
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Now 59.1% in the circle in four games. Pretty respectable, especially after having gone through the Cali gauntlet.
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Doesn't matter if it's gone fast and skilled or big and physical -- Jake does all
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No worries -- making statements like the above guarantee you'll be immortalized in somebody's sig.
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Yes, that was the play (was surprised they never replayed it). Comes back to bail out the D who gave the puck away, rubbed out his man and took the puck back, and got it out while in the midst of three Sharks like it was just another day at the office. Impressive for a veteran let along a rookie. Totally SOLID, as he was any time he was on the ice. If that's the way he can play consistently, young jedi has nothing left to learn -- he'll stay.
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May depend on the expected length of time, but going by how the new management has been treating its players, bringing those in that have produced (earned it) seems more likely. In the case of a young player, even if for a few days whether thay play or not it would be given as recognition of what they've done. Just being around the big club has definite benefit for them.
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Archibald over Gaunce?
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And that's why seven teams passed on him, four of them taking D and wingers instead? Have you ever watched a single game Nylander has played? Then why does he not apply when you included Kassian, Hansen, and Matthias in your "analysis" of what we have "too much of already"? So now we're down to only Jensen, Horvat, and Gaunce being "stupidly one-dimensional" yet there are at least that many other than are "skilled" in the prospect pool. I think you need to let this go -- hole keeps getting deeper.
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Completely irrelevant and strawman. Your entire thesis is that the Canuck prospects are "the same" and aren't "skilled", yet you cherry-pick your examples and ignore the ones that render it false.
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Conveniently left out Shinkaruk, McCann, Vey, and Cassels.
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So fast, big-bodied, skilled, well-rounded players are something we only need "enough" (whatever that means) of? Maybe for the team you envision, but give me 20 of them, as would any team. So well-rounded is "stupidly one-dimensional"? Have you really thought that through? Hint: google "oxymoron".
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"Another level"? Just because they're smaller and dance around doesn't mean they are somehow more skilled, let alone not even "on the same echelon". Virtanen had four less goals than Ehlers, despite significantly less TOI, considerably less PP time, and having inferior linemates. Virtanen's natural skills are simply different but still significant, PLUS he's a bigger body PLUS he's aggressive and knows how to use it PLUS he's a character guy. Higher floor and far less downside risk, and that is why he was drafted higher and was expected to go higher (except per Button, of course).