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  1. Only if he can also deliver one punch KO's.
  2. Funny, but not apt. Tryamkin is not best known for icing, he is more well known for crushing guys against the boards or decking them crossing the blue line, and in Russia, when he was on the PP in his first year back there, scoring them. That year he was 51 gp 9 g 16 a 25 pts +12, with 109 pm - pretty much a forty point 200 pm pace in an 80 game season. However, the next year management changed and changed the deployment of the defense - after a year as a stud they required him to be a mouse - 31pm and his 100mph shot was no longer on the PP.
  3. If he keeps scoring four goals every three games we won’t have to worry about and decision regarding protecting him.
  4. Naw, the hip check was no more responsible than Sedin being speed-bagged, or Mason Raymond getting stick between his legs and driven on a rail face first into the boards, breaking his back. Even more responsible were the injuries to Kesler picked up in the prior series where he threw the team n his back and carried them to the win. For the playoffs up til that time he was our best player, and it is still true no matter how much he is hated now.
  5. Well now, you’re saying all the things I didn’t want to say cuz I would lose my reputation for niceness.
  6. yep, Lucic would have been the guy with a back problem if Tryamkin had been in Hamhuis spot. Not saying LLucic did anything wrong other than be a size mismatch for Hamhuis.
  7. I didn’t see Newell skating out there, what number is he? The second unit doesn’t play like this, they are way more direct, even I& without the skill - I’m sure they get more chances pe4 minute played on the pp. But Miller and Horvat have been playing like they each have a pair of broken wrists - weak ass passes that don’t even reach the target. Petey’s playing like he needs a goo$ meal and some nap time. And Hughes is being overplayed - Juolevi has been playing well, play him. Hughes is not the same player when overplayed. But basically, Calgary defence i# better than our defence, and their goal-tending is better than hours. Not saying Demko hasn’t played well, but Markstrom has been so good the the Canucks are all trying post and in an$ therefore missing the net - Mary is in their heads - Canucks have spent too much time reading hi# press clippings. They have to remember that Marky gets off his game when he gets contacted, they should know that, they played with him behin$ them.
  8. I think it more about focus, but yes, similar effect being described. Jake: time to start the game: oh look! A butterfly! If there was a way to teach focus, Jake could be salvaged as a hockey player. Of course, if there is one thing subject entirely to free will, it is the choice (more precisely, the act) of focusing the mind - it is purely an act of volition - only you can focus your mind. There was a wonderful experiment done by the Canadian/American neurosurgeon, Dr. Wilder Penfield. He used a probe to stimulate the surface of the brain of people who were awake - usually epileptics, if memory serves, with the object of finding a treatment for their condition. One person, when stimulated, moved her arm, he asked what she was experiencing: “You’re making me move my arm!” she replied, illustrating part of the subjective difference between an act of volition, and an automatic stimulus/response action. Now, if someone can get Jake to focus (his attention to the action of the game) we could get what we hoped for when he was drafted. This, of course, is not a situation limited to Jake, everyone that I know of, to varying degrees, has a limit to the extent to which they can focus - including the fact that there are things that we have no interest in focusing on. Maybe there is a sport’s psychologist that deals with such things. Of course, that would only be of value if It was something Jake desired. It reminds me of the old saw asked of a California psychologist: “How do you change a lightbulb?” Answer: “First,, it has to want to change.”
  9. I did, and two more goals and an assist today for McDonough.
  10. What a difference to see a rested Canuck team that finally had a chance to get in some practice time, essential to integrate new players into the defence. Not a weak player on the ice tonight for Vancouver in a game almost entirely without unrecovered mistakes. Even Eriksson was effective tonight. I thought the defence was especially good and really it was only Markstrom that held the Flames in it. I thought our first year guys were especially effective - Juolevi - calm and effective, and made a really impressive pass in the third period in the offensive from the point to the far side corner- gosh knows how he saw it - wonderful read and perfect execution. Hoglander has an amazing work rate. Markstrom was definitely the Flames best player - he held them in it.
  11. Hummmmm, wonder if we could use a player who can score?
  12. I’d rather let him go and bring in Podkolzin - a bigger, very defensively responsible winger with a motor like Hoglander.
  13. I think one of the major requirements of being Hughes partner is that he can help to keep him healthy, another is that Hughes needs lots of help in front of or near our net. But I do see your point, it is another way to go - Schmidt is only one of two Canuck defencemen without a growing minus in his +/-, the other is Juolevi, who is actually a + player - probably in part because of protected minutes, but still it is encouraging. On the other hand, increased playing time has exposed Chatfield as the kind of player he was in Utica. Superficially, he looks busy and aggressive- the kid can skate and work hard, but he is often caught running around out of position.
  14. I must have, I have a tendency to being literal. My sarcasm meter is pretty much non-existent - too many years crunching numbers.
  15. Coaches are largely defined by who they have available to play for them. Being asked to win with: Eriksson. 6,0 Baertschi. 3.6 Ferland. 3.5 Sutter. 4.4 Beagle. 3.0 Roussel. 3.0 Spooner. 1.0 24.5 million bucks worth of fourth liners and concussion cases is a lot to ask of any coach. Add to that 3 mil that Benning is not responsible for in Luongo - that is 27.5 mil - a third of the cap pretty much unproductive. Previous management, namely Burke and Quinn also fought the NHL head office for a more fair schedule - which Burke was successful in getting. Subsequent management has not bothered. Gillis couldn’t draft for crap, but boy he sure made some great trades and free agent pickups - Ehrhoff, Hamhuis, Luongo, Higgins, Salo, Malhotra, Samuelson, Tanev come to mind. Got us to the Stanley Cup final
  16. I Don’t think that is the only thing he could bring to the Canucks. After his year in Vancouver, he returned to Russia to play in the KHL. In that year, he was their top minute defenceman and their top scoring defender. In 51 games he had 9g and 16a, on top of 102 pm deployed on both PP and PK. The next season, as I understand it, ownership and team strategy changed. They employed 8 d and used them all about equally... and Tryamkin’s role changed. His minutes fell dramatically, and was even cycled out of some games - until they were in danger of missing the playoffs, then his minutes once again rose. Under this management his deployment his been primarily defensive. I’ve heard he has a hundred plus mph shot. A lot will depend on his usage here. Deployment with Hughes at even strength might be a very interesting Prospect with Hughes ability to employ the strong attributes of his team mates. It might also confer on Hughes a modicum of protection, and our goalies the opportunity to see the odd shot.
  17. Yeah, it is a big deal by the time you have had ten or twelve years of developing defensive habits. That is why there are not many guys like Schmidt.
  18. Bailey plays for a Vancouver, there is no rule in the book that states that anyone should get a penalty if they board a Canuck, so therefore i5 is not a penalty.
  19. Everybody plays us for these stupid, overused cross ice passes that we use to the total negation of any other strategy - it is absolute madness to keep doing only that which does not work. Cross ice passes will work when you also do something, anything else.
  20. Well, I can’t say I long for the caves, nor do I hold with ‘head bonking’, but I do believe that learning from mistakes is essential to any kind of progress. If we did not learn from mistakes we’d all still be in the caves picking each other’s nits.
  21. Boy, do we ever need a player who checks like that!p
  22. Experience I s the best teacher, if one is willing to learn from it. Gadjovich appears to be, Jake, it appears, is not.
  23. Jake’s replacement is Russian to the rescue.
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