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Many on CDC ARE real Canuck fans who want to see that we have realistic expectations for our prospects and players. I have seen this group all too often turn on guys when they don't live up to the fan boys expectations. If our prospects and players exceed our realistic hopes, then that will be a wonderful thing to celebrate, but I hate to see people on CDC dumping on our prospects because they don't live up to unrealistic expectations. I'd much rather be pleased when a player does better than we hope than disappointed because he can never live up to unrealistic expectations, and even though he becomes a useful player, he just ends up being a whipping boy because he disappointed someone's daydream about him. For the first time in years, I like the prospect pool management has built - lets not ruin it with overblown expectations leading to disappointment, leading to sniping at these young guys.
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+"...largely, it seems, due to his wife being homesick". I believe this may be a false assumption and a damning one at that - seems I read on this thread earlier that they went home so that his wife could finish her education - which apparently now has been done. If you are going to be an NHLer where you are away from home a lot, you'd better have a happy wife. Nothing can ruin a player faster than a disintigrating relationship on the home front. When it comes to commitment, the best place to see it is on the ice. There was nothing shy about Tryamkin's commitment on the ice - he stood up for his teammates, answered the bell, made a lot of very impressive contact on the opponents' forwards, cleared the front of the net, moved the puck up ice both with the pass and his feet.
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He doesn’t, he needs to be on the ice at the same time as the other team’s best player. You do not protect your best player by fighting his attacker, you fight it by attacking the other team’s best player - mutually assured destruction, the principle of deterrence.
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Not many players backed off the defense at their own blue line like Bure. He also put the fear of God in pinching defensemen... just in case he chipped past them, or left the zone early on a turnover - the other team had to surrender the Canucks' blue line a lot when Bure was on the ice, and possession was in doubt.
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Not really, Sautner is very sound defensively, not much offense. McEneny is very good offensively, good defensively, and has more size. Very unfortunate injury for McEneny this year, he was off to a great start - first PP unit and first PK unit. Sautner has steadily improved ever since he came to the Comets - his +/- is no accident - Wiercioch -5, Holm and Brisebois -6, Sautner +9... and Sautner had the more difficult defensive assignments.
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I can see this happening... IF he is matched with one of our young centers, and if that young center has a great start to his career.
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According to Elite Prospects, Palau is 179 lbs. - that makes a big difference when you are 5’7”. He’s like a scaled down version of Horvat physically.
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Good response, but the proof, they say, is in the high test.
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This was Carl Neill 2016/17 67 games 13 goals 56 assists 69 points. We did not sign him, this year doing well in college hockey - apparently, the main issue was his skating. The question mark with Brassard is that he too is ‘heavy footed’. We shall see. 2016-17 Sherbrooke Phoenix QMJHL 36 10 36 46 34 2 -- -- -- -- -- 2016-17 Charlottetown Islanders QMJHL 31 3 20 23 12 19 13 2 9 11 10 2017-18 Concordia University OUAA 28 5 26 31 10 0
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The big question for teams that might select him is who they can put him with to take advantage of his qualities. Well, this guy is not exactly what you are looking, but: “It was Oct. 3, 2010 when the Florida Panthers decided Michael Grabner wasn't worth a roster spot and placed the 22-year-old on waivers. Two days later -- on Grabner's birthday -- the New York Islanders claimed him, and he's been the gift that keeps on giving this season.Grabner is 12th in the NHL and leads all rookies with 31 goals. He has 22 goals in his last 32 games and is a major contender for the Calder Trophy with 48 points, second among rookies behind Carolina's Jeff Skinner, who has 53.”
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A quick look at Guddy's record tells a lot. In his last two years of junior, he played 41, and 44 games. He has never played a full season in the NHL In 2011/12 he played 32 games. In 2012/13 he missed 18 games - almost a quarter of the season, and in 2015/16 (the year before we took him) he missed 18 games - again nearly a quarter of the season. Then in 2016/17, he plays 30 games out of 82, and most of those games he was hurt. But then Benning signs him up for another term, unable to admit that he gave up a first rounder plus for this guy, that's like when you go to Vegas and you are losing your shirt and you throw your car keys on the table. Benning's only out now is to get whatever he can for the guy before he hurts himself again. Staying healthy is for by far the most part, a skill and something that you train for - how to position yourself to make a hit, how to block a shot, how to position your body to absorb a check, and Gudbranson is like Tanev and Baertschi, they don't have it. The Sedins, when they werre younger, had that ability, but a dozen or so years of being cross-checked in the back ot the neck will slow down all of your thinking skills and your ability to make and take passes and handle the puck - exactly the things that the Sedins have lost. And as players of previous generations have often said, "It's the hands that go first." Well, that is the symptom. The cause is all that accumulated whiplash over a career.
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Man, what a pile of excuses! Sbisa played in the top six because everybody ahead of him was hurt and because Benning had signed him to an outrageous contract for what he showed (when he wasn’t hurt). Basically let’s just concede that he was ta seven or eight defenseman on a 28th place team. Gudbranson is a bottom pairing D on a team about to finish last in the league. Juolevi has proven nothing while several D in the same draft are in their second year in the league. Pouliot is a Pittsburg reject with good reason. About Stetcher, you said it all yourself - he’d be wonderful, if only he was bigger... he’s not going to get any bigger, he is exactly what you see - a small energetic defenseman that brings no offence. He is only playing because we are a last place team and we have no-one else. If this team is to ever again become a contender, the only players currently on the roster that will be playing for it will be Boeser, Horvat, and maybe Leipsic and Virtanen. All the rest will have been replaced and upgraded, if they aren’t, we will still be at the bottom of the league. That is why there is no excuse for keeping the Sedins for another year, and why there is no excuse for not trading any of the others for whatever draft picks he can acquire.
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Gudbranson’s injury record makes him look like Tanev2, without the redeeming factor of being a sound defensive D. The value of players who are injured all the time is subject to the law of diminishing returns. Move these guys while they still have value. We are rebuilding, get draft picks and/or high level prospects. In addition, not bringing back the Sedins creates cap room for free agents - if there is a time for Evander, it’s now. If there is a quality free agent D under 28 capable of being a 1 or 2 available, sign him - that would decrease the time of a rebuild tremendously. We should have tons of cap room with no Sedins, no Tanev, and no Gudbranson.
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Well, there are some pretty good defencemen that weren’t even drafted at all: Steve Duschesne, Dan Boyle, Brian Rafalski, Mark Giordano...
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Don’t enjoy being a dark cloud, but we won’t be a contender until we have a defence worthy of the name. Even a quick look at our assets on defence tells us that that is still years away - without an unlikely run of good luck or a miraculous couple of trades that brings us great values at near zero cost.
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Looking at how our other young defencemen have developed under Cull, I wouldn’t mind a bit if Juolevi spent a year there - it developed Holm enough to get us Leipsic.
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I’m more worried about a bruised kidney.
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Yep, a couple of hungry, nasty dogs and a beast. Jake is making a bigger imprint in every game he plays now. The way he is generating opportunities through his skating and phyical is exactly what was hoed for. Bertuzzi pretty much called it on Jake. Seeing Green put Jake out there in the last minute of games and periods is quite a statement. Leipsic seems to be really taking advantage of what Jake brings. Now if Gaudette draws into that, as you suggest, it might turn into quite the line. Other teams might begin calling them the West Coast Depress, because of how you feel when you have to ply against them.
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Until we have a defence in front of them, I’d be careful of pre-judging the goalies.
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Yeah, Smyl is listed on hockeydb at 5’10 - in Stan’s dreams. Most of the guides of that date listed him at 5’8, and from the way he looked compared to the height of the players he ran over, that would seem about right. He was listed at about 195 and SOLID. He drove to the net well and his nose looks like it ran into a lot of chest high sticks in his life. Not as bad as Tiger Williams nose, of course, Tiger was described as hanging a face so flat he could bite a wall. Palmu seems to have a stature like Smyl had - low centre of gravity - hard to get off his edges.
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Yeah, a year ago Tanev was probably worth a mid to high first and a prospect. Now, who knows?
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Does Tanev play for us? I thought mostly he was just hurt. Last year he played 53 games, if we are lucky, he might get that many again this year - that is if we count all of the games when he is subpar because he if playing hurt and thus less effective. Staying healthy is a skill, and Tanev does not have it - it s not merely a matter of chance that some players are hurt so much and others not. Injury is more attached to the way players play and train. Players that are injured a lot tend to keep getting injured until they breakdown entirely and can no longer play the game. The time to move Tanev is before that happens, and with the way he keeps getting hurt, I’d say we have a closing wi where his value in trade diminishes with each new injury.
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The problem with the Oilers is that they drafted virtually all high-scoring forwards and hardly any D with their high draft picks. One of the deals there is that a great D may be on the ice for 25 to 28 minutes, and a high scoring forward, if he doesn't also penalty kill, might play 18-19 - guess who has a bigger effect on the game. And what if that high scoring forward, as is often the case, doesn't play well in his own end? He might get you ahead, but can you trust him to keep the lead? The Doughtys, Keiths, Suters, etc. are effecting nearly half of the game and most of the critical times within the game. When I look at our picks, I only see one high draft D, and the jury is out on him as to whether he can bring trying offensively to the NHL, and from what I saw in Penticton, there is a lot to be desired in his defensive game, as well. He got walked a lot in Penticton. I sure hope his game has improved, if it hasn't, we have a long wait until we are a contender. We are late in accumulating quality D,and by the time we draft, let them get physically mature and develop them, our forwards might be past their prime.
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What is he now, 4th or 5th in points per game in the WHL? Nice pick.
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Putin should wear a bra.