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  1. Yep, the Canucks want to start buying skates by the pound and sticks by the foot.
  2. Comparing Edler to Murzyn is ridiculous, comparing him to Lowe (as was done in the post you replied to) is simply entirely inapplicable - they aren't the same kind of animal at all, as to comparing players to themselves, i.e. letting them develop into their own best version of themselves, that is entirely apt.
  3. I don't know about only Orr, that is quite a presumption and is is also presumptuous to compare him in any way with Orr. There have been several D who used mobility the way that Orr did (in most cases with nowhere near the same success) - Coffey, Leech, Housley, Zubov, to name a few. Don't bury this young kid under an overburden of excessive expectations - let him find his way.
  4. Tryamkin, Hughes, and Pouliot are all left shooting guys who can play the right side. Heck, so do Sautner and McEneny, is it comes to that. Worth remembering that Sautner played very well at the end of last year - nothing wrong with having a wealth of depth.
  5. Brassard will also be interesting to see. He had big numbers after a slow start.
  6. Steve Smith’s own goal as a rookie. Turned into a good defence man, though, sadly a play of his on Bure blue out Bure’s Knee for the first time - good play, though, just bad luck for Bure, I think he caught a rut in the ice.
  7. That’s true, but the question I answered was whether the Flames won a Stanley Cup so long as Coffey was in Edmonton, and they did not.
  8. For sure, if we can get that out of Hughes, he’ll get butts out of seats like nobody since Bure.
  9. No, they did not, but they did break Edmonton’s run, I believe, in 1986. Calgary lost to Montreal in the final. Calgary was beat to hell from playing Edmonton to get out of Alberta. Reinhart had 18 points in 21 playoff games that year, but that really didn’t speak to how valuable he was to Calgary’s run. In my opinion, he was their best player, on a team whose greatest challenge was that they were in the same division as the Oilers.
  10. Paul Reinhart. Sadly, with a trick back, at the end of his career. He was Calgary’s answer to Paul Coffey when Calgary was a near great team. We got to see him for two seasons in Vancouver - sadly, no team to put around him.
  11. You also have to remember that another, similar player is also in the pipeline - Rathbone. If Rathbone turns out to be a player (and he is very promising right now) there could be a logjam of small players on the blue line - particularly is Pouliot sticks. Rathbone, Pouliot, Stetcher, and Hughes would make for a very small defence. At least two of them will be redundant.
  12. Now we better get Tryamkin back to pair up with this kid.
  13. “Chuck Norris versus Communism” - brilliant, hillarious, eye-opening documentary about how a handful of Romanians delivered Western Movies into Communist Romania and had a lot to do with the overthrow of the Communist government. 9/10. Also check out Jeremy Renner in “Wind River”, Oscar Isaak in “A Most Violent Year”, Stephan Rea in “Citizen X”, Tom Hardy in “Drop Box” and “Child 44” and the TV series “Nootka”. If you can handle sub-titles, watch foreign film academy award winner, “The Lives of Others” and the original Argentinian version of “The Secret In Their Eyes” (avoid the US version like the plague - it is awful by comparison). if you like older movies, try “The Count of Monte Cristo” with Jim Caviezel and Guy Pierce, and “Les Miserables” with Liam Nelson and Geoffrey Rush, get your kids in front of the TV for “October Skies”, and “Iron Will”. I am not a religious person, but If you like inspiring movies, you might like “Temple Grandin”, “Amazing Grace”, “Something the Lord Made”, “The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler”. If you like westerns, you might like “3:10 to Yuma”, “Hombre”, “Shenandoah”, “Crossfire Trail”, “Open Range”.
  14. I think it’s watching too many North American movies.
  15. You don’t share my opinion that of the 164 possible games for Chris Tanev over the past two years, he only played in 95 of them, or that Gudbranson only played in 82 of them, exactly half, or that Gudbranson is not a career -70? Cheers.
  16. All that Gudbranson and Tanev have established is that they can’t stay healthy. At least Tanev can play when he is not hurt, Gudbranson has not even established that he can do that - a career -70. At Tryamkin’s age , he has to play to get better, went back to Russia and played big minutes in all situations.
  17. Guddy is so tough he continually breaks himself and can't stay on the ice more than two or three games in a row. Breaking all the time is not tough - like Tanev, Guddy is Mr. Glass 2. Trayamkin was genuinely tough - he hit people hard and did not break himself - and it was some of the toughest guys in the NHL that he out-muscled. Guddy, like Tanev, needs to be traded; the problem is, who the heck wants guys that are always broken? If we ever get a stretch of 20 or 30 games where Guddy and Tanev play well and don't break - take advantage - trade them - we might not get another opportunity.
  18. The did something 29 other teams were unable to do.
  19. Right. The other issue with McDavid is that he is a money vacuum. He sucks up so much cap space on the team that between him, Draisatl, and Lucic there is hardly any room for a supporting cast. Just look at Las Vegas for what you can do when the talent is spread out over four lines. Take the third or fourth best forward on thirty teams, the third or fourth best D from 30 teams; put them on one team, and you have Las Vegas
  20. Yeah, the last guy I remember with such an unusual training method was Bure, who dragged around a parachute when he skated in training. The I remember him stepping around all kinds of defenders and they would hook him, and he would just pull through the hook.
  21. Thanks for that, I wondered what the heck happened to him. Didn't seem reasonable that he didn't play if he could.
  22. "Their job is win the puck battle and make a good, quick first pass to transition to attack and let the fwds drive the play." In beer leagues, many forwards have the view that the D exist to give them the puck, therefore their is no need for the Coffey's, the Orr's, the Karlsen's, the Bourque's, etc. - defenders who can actually skate the puck out of trouble and then create the play - and why shouldn't they, when often they are far better offensive players than the forwards that they (according to the person I was quoting) should '...win the puck battle and make a good, quick first pass to transition to attack and let the fwds drive the play....'. The puck should spend its time in the possession of the player who can best drive the play no matter where he lines up for faceoffs - forward or DEFENCE. Why should Paul Coffey, for instance, have considered it his only purpose in life to move the puck up to Semenko as quickly as possible?
  23. Sounds like the typical beer league forward strategy.
  24. This guy has amazing balance, which he achieves through changes in the angles of skates, then uses his legs to step past the defenders. I don’t see many people doing this, even in the NHL. He took on two defenders getting to the net - straight through the middle of the offensive zone... and stayed on his feet, still making plays on the puck - now this is a guy you want to follow to the net. Now, can he do this in the NHL?
  25. Cuz Lucic has brought so many cups to Oddmonton.
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