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[GDT] Canucks vs Capitals Diwali Night Edition Oct 25 7pm SN1
kilgore replied to Baer.'s topic in Canucks Talk
Jeez wake up Pearson -
[GDT] Canucks vs Capitals Diwali Night Edition Oct 25 7pm SN1
kilgore replied to Baer.'s topic in Canucks Talk
Looks like the refs have their marching orders tonight. -
[GDT] Canucks vs Capitals Diwali Night Edition Oct 25 7pm SN1
kilgore replied to Baer.'s topic in Canucks Talk
What's MIller supposed to do? Lift his feet so the player doesn't trip over them? -
[GDT] Canucks vs Capitals Diwali Night Edition Oct 25 7pm SN1
kilgore replied to Baer.'s topic in Canucks Talk
Hughes is a Beaut! -
[GDT] Canucks vs Capitals Diwali Night Edition Oct 25 7pm SN1
kilgore replied to Baer.'s topic in Canucks Talk
Nyet nyet Soviet Bo Canucks Bo! -
[Speculation] Possible Canucks trade looming
kilgore replied to cuporbust's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
I hope you are right about it not being before the TDL. I could see what you envisioned happening. IF we get Tryamkin back...IF one or more of our D prospects progress above expectations or quicker than expected, and IF Tanev is re-signing or not Like you said - a lot of balls in the air (and she did too ) What was disturbing was hearing talk of a trade in the near present. As if Benning is actively shopping him. Why now? Also, I think he may be underrated because of his size by other teams and we'd never get back a player of equal impact. I may be looking through hometown boy glasses, but IMO, on any given night, he can outshine anyone on the top four. What he lacks in size, he more than makes up for it tenacity and speed to the puck. It would be monumentally stupid to dump him for some long shot second rounder as some here suggest, when we finally have a modicum of depth at D, just beginning a season with a real shot at making the playoffs again. -
[Speculation] Possible Canucks trade looming
kilgore replied to cuporbust's topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
All these rumours about Stecher being traded I find disturbing. We finally have some D depth. And even then, not a lot. Any replacement from the farm would be a downgrade. Haven't we learned our lessons? Tanev and probably Edler are guaranteed to miss a good chunk of games. Stecher was so important last season for that reason. On a good club, it is only natural to have players a bit pissed off with their playing time. That means you are doing something right. Don't change anything. Of course never say never if they are getting back a better D replacement, but how often does that happen? And what would be the point? We already have a glut of forwards and our goaltending is locked up. . . . -
[Report] Canucks assign Adam Gaudette to Comets
kilgore replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Would have liked to see him get a run with the big club. Not enough to run out his allotted games before he can't be sent down, but a few in a row at least. But meh, no problem. We can still call him up, and have those games saved in the bank for when we REALLY need him. More important for him to see some action. As others have said, he was there not just to be a 13th forward, in case of injury, this was more of a reward for his work in the preseason. To be around the team, learn from example of how pro's prepare, nice to be there for Bo's knighthood, and to get a bump in cash. -
[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Detroit Red Wings | Oct. 22, 2019
kilgore replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
Can you imagine if we'd had kept fan fave Eddie Lack instead? Linden and Benning's earliest big decision. I didn't understand it back then as both seemed to be performing similarly. And Eddie looked like he was a hit in the dressing room, and fans. Good decision there JB! This kind of game for Horvat was just what he needed as a new captain. He stamped his status, alpha of the pack tonight, with a hat trick, a couple weeks after being named Captain. These are the games he can take to use in the future. JV seemed to feed off Bo's energy tonight, like a big brother showing him the ropes. -
[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at Detroit Red Wings | Oct. 22, 2019
kilgore replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
And a silver lining is that Petey and the Flow haven't exactly carried a game yet. Even if Petey did get another 2 assists tonight. We know one or both can and will go on scoring binges at some point. That we can win without their top level production, Bo and others showing up. Future's so bright I gotta wear shades. -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
Is there a more perfect way to end a road trip? -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
From goat to goat -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOO At least Hughes will shoot -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
Sure be nice to see another of those nights like last December against the Blues. Petey with 5 points and Boeser with a hat trick -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
Oh for Pete's skates. -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
So let it be written So let it be done! Hey, Yul looks a bit like Stecher. -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
No argument there Bro Take it up with Joe Louis arena. Its their gig -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
Its 80's night there. I really like the old font they used. Its on their helmets. -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
Looks like Markstrom is going to have to score a few goals too -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
So the one time Jake actually is goaded into a fight and the refs jump on them before they can even get going -
[GDT] Canucks Vs. Red Wings | October 22, 2019 @ 4:30 PST
kilgore replied to Greenman Wannabe's topic in Canucks Talk
Even Louie could teach him a thing or two about the little things. Frustrating to watch sometimes his play. Not just this. Late to pucks. Not hitting when he can. passing to no one. Beagle says: -
Baertschi and Goldobin - The pros and cons of calling them up
kilgore replied to Hindustan Smyl's topic in Canucks Talk
If history repeats, injuries will "solve" these issues. Just have to wait. No rush to call up Baer. And Goldie could use a full season in Utica. At least until we might need him in the playoffs/injuries. I'd like to see Gaudette play more hopefully, because he is already up here. Louie is an enigma. I don't want him to drag the Canucks and his line down to his mediocre standards, and I don't want him anywhere near Utica to float around there taking ice time from prospects. I'm hoping he has a Naslund like epiphany...that he's earned enough millions and is willing to walk away from the rest of his contract for his own sanity and well being of the team. But I'm not holding my breath. -
I'd ask for examples, as I produced, to back up your assertions, of his being "negative" in an unnecessary way, but I'll just accept that you are convinced of that, and we agree to disagree. Part of the exasperation that he and fans who agreed with him that built up was that management didn't learn anything from the Eriksson signing. They continued to convince themselves that even before Brock came over, before Pettersson, before Hughes, they were under the delusion that all we needed was a few more cast offs from other teams to have a shot at the Cup. Its all hypotheticals, but we'd definitely have a larger stable of prospects, and probably still have our #1 pick we got for Miller if we'd have gone down the more traditional stable way to rebuild, as I suspect Linden was pushing. Sure we are in good place right now with our luck (and good scouting) in the draft the last few years. And who knows, if we'd finished worse in 2017, and had a higher pick, we may not have picked Petey. So maybe it all balances out somehow. But even though at present we have a nice mix of good goaltending, young stars, and competent support players, we've sacrificed a lot of that next wave that must come up to both to start developing and to keep the team able to retain its young stars in coming years, with cheap entry level contracts for those new prospects. Instead we are even borrowing from future #1 picks. We still will need an army. Sure we have a few promising prospects down the pike, but we'd have been in an even more depth position if we'd have started stocking and gone full rebuild earlier. So I'm a bit worried about what happens in a couple of years from now. But I'm resisting fretting about that problem and enjoying the present. Glass half full. All of these new signings have to work out. (I'm looking at you Ferland) or we are kind of hooped. We've spent to the cap, with no real space until Louie leaves. As we know, no one wants players that are underperforming, and we may need to trade up for better support players if we are truly cup contenders in a couple or even one season. We simply won't be able to carry any more useless cap weight going forward if we truly want to start to perform at or near the top of the league again. So everything has to work out, no room for mistakes. JB has painted the team into a corner. A pretty corner for now. We have to believe. No other choice. I've accepted that. I don't want to relive past mistakes. I was hesitant to even defend Botchford. I know I'm in the minority. But in giving management a clean slate, I also can't just dismiss the past mistakes. And Botch lived through the worst of it. You may have defined him as the voice of the loudest and most obnoxious, but I think it was of the silent frustrated majority. Can we agree that he wanted the best for the team? Even if you did not agree with his methodology? His passion was to see them succeed. I also trusted his opinions because he actually travelled with the team, was close to players and what was going on. As opposed to the lazy radio jocks that had much less credibility IMO. As far as his exuberance, I want my radio sports personnel to be Larcheids. Passionate and biased. I want them to say what they and Canucks fans are really thinking and screw the NHL. Botchford nailed that for me. But I can accept that he wasn't everyone's cup of tea. Man I can't believe how long of a response I'm typing out. I just wanted to briefly back up a fellow CDCer about appreciating Botchford. I'm looking forward now. We'll need a bit of luck to solve some issues in the next few years, but team success can ease a lot of pain and boost trade value of any superfluous pieces riding the coat tails. Go Canucks Go!
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See, I think most of what you wrote about him is bullcrap. No offense. He was very positive and excited when he saw something to be excited about. But as the non playoff seasons piled up, and JB and owners kept embracing insanity by doing the same thing every off season and expecting playoff glory, he, along with myself and many fans, got frustrated. Because we wanted to win so bad. He expressed beautifully what I and many others were feeling. We wanted to shout too! Maybe 4 years of missing the playoffs while shedding picks and prospects wasn't enough for you to get angry once in awhile, but some of us just didn't take that kind of deliberate mismanagement nicely. And to have such a brilliant scribe who listened to and used fans contributions the way he did was unheard of. We just played the Rangers. Here's a column after a win last season against them. He was positive when he saw positive play. https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/the-provies-the-flow-abides-positive-power-garys-dunk-and-the-wild-dogs-of-negativity Full of great quotes, funny takes. informative video clips. He even got some Bettman digs in there. I loved he was the first reporter to have the balls to publicly believe and defend Burrows in a column during the AugerGate incident. As well his great ode to Alex Burrows column, when he retired. https://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/the-vilification-of-alex-burrows-is-it-justified "...suggestion made by some, including ESPN, that Burrows may have embellished the pregame conversation because he was “embarrassed at his role in his team’s defeat.” Embarrassed? He scored two goals and was called for a penalty Auger simply made up out of thin air. No, Burrows was telling the truth, at least his version of it. There is no other motive to speak up. Whatever your perception, Burrows is an intelligent player who knew he risked being vilified and marked and knew there was little which would come of it all. Burrows spoke out because he felt his team was wronged." Heck, back in 2016 he even mustered up a top ten reasons to feel positive about the Canucks start. This is just from a couple of minutes of googling. Jason Botchford: The top 10 reasons to feel good about the Canucks' mediocre start: https://vancouversun.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/jason-botchford-the-top-10-reasons-to-feel-good-about-the-canucks-mediocre-start On top of that he was hilarious. He was the only one I think that could shut Pratt up. Was he loud, obnoxious, arrogant at times? Sure. But he spoke truth to power. Our cities most revered pro sports team's management at that. Some just couldn't handle the truth. So they defined it as "negativity". I guess there are two types of fans. Those that see criticism when warranted, as an overall positive thing if it means pressuring management to get its act together. And those that theorize that if a reporter is critical of management he is a bad machine. I'm sorry if this word is not allowed, but its the only one that describes him. He had balls. And he used humour to make his points. One of the best we've ever had here IMO. I really miss him and his take. RIP. I'm just sorry that on a Canuck fan board, Jason Botchford, the most fan-centric reporter, who travelled with the team, and got more from the players because of his personality than anyone else, was so misunderstood and unfairly maligned, IMHO.
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[PGT] Vancouver Canucks at New York Rangers | Oct. 20, 2019
kilgore replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
I don't know about "freaking out". Extreme disappointment would be more like it. After playing the best hockey they have all season for the first two periods. But facts don't change if the lose. It caught up to them in the third, plus i'm sure Rangers were read the riot act between 2nd and 3rd. They had been embarrassed in their own barn for two periods by a team playing a second game in two mornings.