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2-2 9 seconds left in the 3rd see Tryamkin thread for link to live.

Looks like it is 2-2 in the last couple minutes of the third for SKA (Pods team?).

Siberia wins in OT!! 2 down; 2 to go. See you on Sunday Big Friendly Guy!

This is great! A little glitchy on my old computer but really neat anyway. ("Neat": from the 60's, lol.) Tree-Am-Keen's game is in a scoreless tie after the third, heading to overtime. ("Keen": also from the 60's.) Also, Podkolzin's team is in this same list of KHL playoff games. Thanks HH, really appreciate it!

Ya! Undt hee vill pomp yoo upp!

March 2 loss, plus 3 more losses for Auto-Driver March 4th, 6th, & 8th = Tryamkin free to join Canucks. And, so it begins: Scene 1: March 8th, Russian winter still blowing cold, really, really cold. Quietly, out of the blowing snow, an Avro Arrow decends, and lands in a hockey arena parking lot. A giant of a man, cloaked in a mikkim-skin full-length hoodie can be seen hunkering towards the beautiful jet. A quick shuffling and ducking and settling in and the Arrow is already lifting off for a streaking flight directly over the North Pole. Landing at Vancouver, the Avro disgorges and the giant boards a waiting chopper bound for Raw Jazz Arena. **************************************************** Scene 2: Still March 8th, Vancouver is still warm from the beautiful spring day. It is now game time in the Pacific Time Zone, but there seems to be a problem with the lights in the arena. The players are milling around and the croud is getting fidgety. The announcer comes on the PA and asks for patience while the techs fiddle with their systems. The lights come up. And stay up. But what's this? A vampire? Gary Bettman is seen rising to a makeshift podium atop the Zamboni at centre ice as the croud starts to boo mercilessly. "I think you're gonna want to hear this" the little man with the Dracula persona pleads. "According to the Collective Bargaining Agreement, NHL Admin, and the NHL Players Association, the collective wisdom of the CDC, and with the hope that we are all right, really, really hope we are all right, the Vancouver Canucks are pleased to announce, the addition of Nikita Tryamkin to the Canucks roster for the game tonight!" Bonus Pic: Remember this? Neither does Johansen!

What a wonderful final post.

Tick, tick, tick... Counting down your CDC experience.

More of this: Less complaining and negativity please. Go Canucks Go (Blow Leafs Blow)

"The smear; the smear." (Apocalypse Now) [How was that even a penalty?]

That picture was (supposedly) taken this morning.

Whatever your hopes, it is always best if we Win The Cup this year!

How's the weather in Ottawa today?

Canucks’ Overseas Prospects Update What’s going on with Vancouver’s European and Russian NHL prospects? By CanucksAbbyFan2 Feb 26, 2020, 1:47pm PST Share this story Share this on Facebook (opens in new window) Share this on Twitter (opens in new window) SHAREAll sharing options Nikita Tryamkin stretches prior to a game during his first NHL stint with the Vancouver Canucks. It’s playoffs time for Vancouver Canucks’ prospects playing overseas. They have four players located in Russia (Nikita Tryamkin, Vasily Podkolzin, Artyom Manukyan and Dimitry Zhukenov), three in Sweden (Nils Hoglander, Linus Karlsson and Arvid Costmar), two in Finland (Petrus Palmu and Toni Utunen) and one in the Czech Republic (Karel Plasek). NIKITA TRYAMKIN His Avtomobilist KHL club finishes its regular season tomorrow. The Big Friendly Giant celebrated the coming of the second season by planting an opposition Avangard player into the boards in the first period of his team’s game yesterday morning. I was watching the game of another one of the Canucks’ KHL crew so I didn’t actually see it. BFG was tossed from the game. I am unsure as of yet if the hit will be suspension-worthy. See CanucksAbbyFan2's other Tweets Those of us who’ve dreamt about the post-Soviet Russian Drago potentially re-joining the blue-and-green for their playoffs push and hopefully a long playoffs run appear set to be disappointed. The best information (although not yet clearly definitive enough for my liking) is that Tryamkin is ineligible to sign a contract to play for the Canucks this season and cannot do so until July 1st, 2020. It appears since he was a restricted free agent (RFA) when he left Vancouver in 2017, he is governed by the same rule that prohibited Oilers’ property Jesse Puljujarvi from signing an NHL contract after December 1st, 2019 this season. The Russian shutdown defenceman has played in 57 of his club’s 61 games this year scoring 2 goals and 11 points. He is a plus 9 on the season and has fired 116 shots on net, doled out a 108 hits and blocked 96 shots. His team is seeded 4th in the KHL’s Eastern Conference and they will take on the 5th seeded Sibir squad. Only six points separate the two clubs as the regular season winds down. BFG’s season could end in mid March if Avtomobilist loses its first round series. See KHL's other Tweets VASILY PODKOLZIN His SKA KHL team finished its regular season yesterday with a 4-1 victory over its top Western Conference rival CSKA. The nomenclature reminds me of the Roughriders and Rough Riders of the old CFL. Who really knows which team is which? SKA is currently the 1st seed in the West but if CSKA gets at least one point in its final regular season game tomorrow then it will finish in the top slot. Both teams are expected to run roughshod over the lowly 7th and 8th seeds in the Conference. The battle for top seed will likely just determine which club has the extra home ice game advantage in a future Conference finals series barring of course any upsets along the way. See KHL's other Tweets Whatever the KHL post season brings for him, the key development for Podkolzin is that he has now emerged as a bonafide KHL forward at the tender age of 18. In his first 17 KHL games this season he didn’t tally even one point during very limited ice time. In his subsequent 13 games he has scored 2 goals and added 6 assists for 8 points. He also has been averaging nearly 13 minutes of playing time per game. His squad’s first round of the playoffs begin in early March. ARTYOM MANUKYAN His team Avangard is seeded 3rd in the KHL’s Eastern Conference. He suffered a serious hand injury during the KHL pre-season in 2019. After surgery and a long rehabilitation he returned to Avangard’s line-up in January hoping to get the rust off in time for the playoffs. He scored two goals in his first six games and it looked like he was primed for a stellar playoffs. Then in his seventh game back he re-injured his right hand on this seemingly innocuous play ending his 2019/20 season for good. See CanucksAbbyFan2's other Tweets Hopefully, he will be fully healthy by the time the KHL’s 2020 pre-season starts up in late July. His contract with Avangard ends at the end of the 2020/21 season. He would then be free to further pursue his career in North America in the Canucks’ organization if both parties are agreeable. DIMITRY ZHUKENOV His VHL regular season with Gornyak Uchaly ended about a week or so ago. He finished with an impressive 15 goals and 26 points in 52 games played. His KHL contract with Avtomobilist runs for one more season. He was not summoned from the VHL to play even one game for Avtomobilist this year. His 6th seeded club trails two games to one in an ongoing Best of Five first round playoff series with 3rd seed rival Dinamo St. Petersburg. Zhukenov scored his first playoff goal of the series earlier today in Game Three of the head-to-head combat. See CanucksAbbyFan2's other Tweets Should his VHL season end it’s unclear if Avtomobilist will summon him as an extra body for their KHL playoffs run. The Canucks still retain his NHL rights so he is not out of their future plans at last word. His SHL regular season is winding down and his Rogle club will qualify for the playoffs. However, he is mired in an offensive slump and his play has looked listless lately. In his last ten games for Rogle he has only managed to produce one lonely primary assist. His most recent goal of the season was scored eleven games ago. He has scored 7 goals and 13 points in 34 SHL games this season. Some had him pegged to make the Canucks’ NHL roster for the 2020/21 season. His recent play appears to indicate he may need another season in the SHL or alternately will need a season in the AHL before seriously challenging for a spot on Vancouver’s top team. It will be interesting to keep tabs on his performance through the SHL playoffs to see if he can bump his slump before his hockey season is over. He is eligible to be selected to play for Sweden at the IIHF World Championship tournament in May which takes place in Switzerland after the SHL playoffs conclude. It is unclear whether or not he will play in North America this season. See Vancouver #Canucks's other Tweets LINUS KARLSSON He has been sidelined with a shoulder injury for the last couple of Allsvenskan league games but returned to action today. He wears jersey #94 for Karlskoga and plays on their first line. See BIK Karlskoga's other Tweets Prior to the injury, he was a force on his new Allsvenskan team putting up 3 goals and 9 assists for 12 points in 9 games. Overall he has tallied 11 goals and 34 points in 44 total Allsvenskan games for his two clubs this season. He added a goal to his above totals today in Karlskoga’s 4-2 victory over Sodertalje. Karlskoga will qualify for the Allsvenskan playoffs that begin in March. They have a chance at winning promotion to the SHL next season. I expect Karlsson to stay in Sweden next seaon and play for Karlskoga rather than sign with the Canucks and play in Utica. ARVID COSTMAR The Canucks’ seventh round 2019 draft pick is lighting up the Swedish SuperElit J20 league like he is a first round NHL draftee. He has scored a gaudy 25 goals and 22 assists for 47 points in 27 junior games for Linkoping this season. The 18 year old was also recently promoted briefly to Linkoping’s SHL club as their 13th forward and managed to snipe his first professional goal during very limited ice time. See Anton Johansson's other Tweets Linkoping’s SHL club will miss the playoffs but not face relegation to the Allsvenskan league. So it appears that Costmar will play out the rest of the season in junior hockey and compete with his team for the Anton Cup which is the SuperElit league’s version of the NHL’s Stanley Cup. I expect he will play for Linkoping in the SHL next season and also will be on Team Sweden’s squad on Boxing Day for the start of the 2021 World Junior U20 ice hockey tournament. PETRUS PALMU He got off to a hot start after the Canucks’ loaned him to JYP of the Finnish Liiga. He has cooled since then but still has accumulated a respectable 11 goals and 31 points in 42 games. His club is in eighth place in the Liiga and will have to win a Best of Three playoffs series to qualify for the quarter-final playoffs round. It appears Palmu’s Finnish hockey season will end some time in March. He is expected to then re-join Utica for their Calder Cup playoffs run. If he doesn’t join them then expect his agent and the Canucks to come to a mutual termination agreement of his contract prior to next season. 20 people are talking about this TONI UTUNEN He hasn’t been the same since he suffered a serious leg injury playing for his Tappara club in a Champions Hockey League game in early September 2019. He had been established as a solid third pairing defensive defenceman with the club prior to the injury. When he returned to action in late October he got his third-pairing D-spot back. Since then though he has been demoted to his team’s 7th D-man and also has been healthy-scratched for another defenceman who has a prior ECHL resume. He has not scored and only has three assists in 29 Liiga games this season. I was hoping that his offensive game would emerge at the professional level this year but he has regressed overall instead. He is only a plus one defenceman on a powerful second place Tappara club. If will be interesting to see how much ice time he gets during what is expected to be a long playoffs run for Tappara. In any event, I don’t think he will sign with the Canucks and play in North America next season. I think he will instead play another year in the Finnish Liiga and try and re-establish his pre-injury game and hopefully make some offensive strides in his professional game. He has shown he is able to produce offensively at his junior peer level in the past. 20 people are talking about this KAREL PLASEK He is playing for Kometa Brno in the Czech Republic’s top professional league. He started out on the second line at the beginning of the season but has mainly been playing fourth line minutes recently prior to suffering a shoulder injury which has kept him out of Kometa’s past couple of games. He has tallied three goals and three assists for six points in 34 Extraliga games this season. He also played on the Czech Republic’s 2020 World Junior club and came back from the experience to the Czech league a more confident player. See Czech Prospects's other Tweets His Kometa Brno team will qualify for the playoffs which begin in March. I expect Plasek to play again in the Extraliga next season and try and establish himself as a full time top six forward. If all goes well perhaps the Canucks will sign him to come over to North America and play for Utica in the AHL during the 2021/22 season. With hockey playoffs season starting to ramp up overseas, it is a signal that the NHL playoffs are no longer that far away on the horizon. Hopefully, Vancouver fans will soon have a good reason to get their Canucks’ car flags out of mothballs and wave them proudly across the Lower Mainland. It feels like it might be our time again to get to the Western Conference Final and beyond. After all, why not us? 159 people are talking about this

From nucksmisconduct.com By CanucksAbbyFan2 What’s going on with Vancouver’s European and Russian NHL prospects? https://www.nucksmisconduct.com/2020/2/26/21125698/canucks-overseas-prospects-update WARNING: Big file. Would you guys prefer I just quote parts of the article?

When we make the playoffs ('when', not 'if'), I expect (I am a homer) the Canucks to have considerable success. Without going into the reasons for my optimism, I profer the idea that many Canucks will have positive feelings about the team as a result. It will help JB's plan to have a tightly-knit team that knows it can win and with whom they will want to remain. My conclusion therefore is that it will be easier for management to fit the pieces together after said success.

Good thing you're not the GM nor the coach then.

Thanks Deb! Go Nux Go! Beat those stinkin' habs.

Pair him with Q; that'll get the puck out in a hurry.

He will be another year older, have a 3rd World Juniour Championship under his belt, and another year of KHL pro experience, plus 2 years of KHL playoffs experience. He will be better at English and a well-rounded but still young professional. He'll be fine. He'll be more than fine. (And so will Tryamkin.)

Translated from Scotch to English, I think I agree with you. There was a price to pay to dump Schaller.

I agree with this. One thing I don't see anyone talking about is including Schaller in the deal. We needed cap room and I look at Schaller as being, at least in part, a cap dump. So we got TT and dumped Schaller for a prospect unlikely to make the big club and a 2nd round pick.

Thanks but no thanks; if he's traveling with the team he must be close to returning to play.