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  1. Guy will most likely take a good number of years to develop into playing a significant role on a team (baring luck). Not all develop like Edler. And even a phenom like Hughes will take a few more years before the defensive side of his game rounds into decent shape.
  2. He a bit of a pr*ick on many topics. Actually a huge one (and I'm not referring to his equipment ).
  3. I posted a related tweet regarding this a short time ago. Basically I said, the league tends to 'look the other way' when a team uses the rules to get around the cap. Except when the Canucks are involved. We submit a contract to the league that takes advantage of the rules (re: Luongo contract). League doesn't like it but *APPROVES* it anyways. Then, *AFTER THE FACT* (I think a year or two later), they penalize us for "circumventing the cap". Then there's other teams getting rid of a players cap hit because of a sudden "skin reaction" to wearing hockey gloves.
  4. Would be great as an assistant coach in charge of the blueline. Offer him a blank cheque & ask him to fill in whatever amount he likes.
  5. Robinson hated being a head coach anyways (even though he was pretty successful at it). Preferred being an assistant as he didn’t like having to come down hard on a player if it required. He probably didn’t think too much of Bowman’s style (respected obviously his ability to coach winners). At least that’s what I heard (his opinion of being a head coach again).
  6. Forsling really isn’t that. But still an acceptable blueliner. Imagine if Benning had drafted him.
  7. The one sad thing about our AHL affiliate moving to Abby. Less of a threat of shoving a guy like Eriksson to minors to force him to retire (eg. long bus rides for the Comets). Pay me a few million and I’ll move to Abby tonight.
  8. Double standards as well. You can be sure if Tom Wilson was a Canucks, he'd be in prison right now.
  9. I don't want EP to go into those areas as his body will get beaten up over time. Other teams won't hesitate to go after him knowing we won't retaliate.
  10. How long have you followed hockey? No, this isn’t a thinly veiled insult. I ask because I wanted your opinion on former Canuck Anders Elderbrink (forgive me for the incorrect spelling). Just how good was he? I think we gave up on him too early (granted it was a different game back then). I just heard from one fan Swedish hockey during that time who said he was a great defenseman.
  11. Probably because one guy was fired (and justifiable so) while the other guy says he needs more time after seven seasons.
  12. I posted this link before: Still surprised "Hollywood" hasn't done a movie on this. I think there WAS a movie made on the saving of those horses mentioned at the end of the video clip. Might've been from Disney? I can't remember (and too lazy to look it up)
  13. The enemy of my enemy is my friend: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Mongol_alliance Didn't realize there were even "talks" back then of an "alliance" between these two former opposing forces. Though it doesn't appear the "talks" went far as neither side trusted the other lol. One needs a "scorecard" to keep track of who's friends with who.
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