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  1. Could work, too bad Louie isn’t worth a similar deal
  2. Unless Juolevi improves his skating, if he gets up at all, it won’t be for long.
  3. You are right. Interesting bias toward right hand shooting D as well.
  4. It’s interesting this year in Utica, impervious years usually three, sometimes four of the defencemen were not Vancouver picks - they were Utica signings. This year we can ice the whole defensive lineup: Brisebois Rafferty Juolevi Chatfield Teves. Sautner with Eliot for good measure. Adding Rathbone to the list will be amazing, if we also add Woo, it will be a wealth of riches for defensive prospects.
  5. Huh, guess he boarded their whole first line and the debris injured the guys sitting on the bench...
  6. Yep, coaches being volatile can lead to a short coaching career... unless you are Torturella, or Keenan.
  7. Playing on the second unit for most of the year last year with checking unit responsibilities.
  8. It was a shame, indeed. Under the orders of the Soviet military they could keep his appetites Under control, but without a discipline imposed from above he was a lost soul. After Makarov, he was supposed to be the best of the Russians, but sadly we could not make the remaining two thirds of the KLM line work. Of course, Larionov being here for Bure May have been what made that work at the start of that great career.
  9. We called him Kruton at the time cuz the last thing he ever did was opt for the salad.
  10. So what? There are thousands of hockey players that didn’t score in their first game, does that make them all equally ineffective and therefore have no future? What you said is just dumb. Sanguinetti had a history of weak defensive play - the downfall of most NHL wannabes. Rafferty has played well defensively - at least at an AHL level. Rafferty has only played two NHL games during which he improved on almost every shift. Only time will tell what his future holds, but what he isn’t is Sanguinetti, as anyone who has watched them both play can attest.
  11. Adam Fox also played for Harvard. In his second year he had 27 points in 28 games. In his third year, he had 48 points in 33 games. Rathbone also plays for Harvard and is his second year. This year, Fox is 31 points in 61 games for the Rangers. Fox is 5’11 180, Rathbone is 5’11 190. Rathbone has a rep of being better defensively than Fox. Since they played on the same team last year, meaningful comparison is possible. But, will Rathbone develop at the same rate as Fox, will his game translate to the NHL - will he get the opportunity that Fox did? Who knows, it’s beyond me, but it would be interesting to see. Hopefully, he will be at the Young Stars in Penticton in September - a great time to get a read on him.
  12. BS back on ya. There is more to toughness than Just punching peoples’ lights out. Bailey goes to the net to get his goals, and he does this often by challenging defenders in open ice or driving past them on the wall. He takes a lot of crap to get to the net. Another kind of grit is when you earn a shot in the show, you get a few shifts and acquit yourself well, get sent back down and don’t skip a beat - 2g 1a in his first game back in Utica.
  13. The previous European player that the Canucks had that relished tubular meat didn’t work out for us either. I’m thinkin’ Kruton.
  14. Doesn’t look like a guy that relishes a challenge. He could have gone up and played in the top Swedish league, like Petterssen, and at the same time, but he stayed in the lower league. Came to Utica, found the going tough and left two different organizations to go back to a league where he could be a star.
  15. Tanev, Stetcher, and Benn and replace them with what? That is half of our D - how will that save cap space for other purposes? One way or another that D will have to be replaced and Stetcher and Benn, at least, are relatively cheap. Even replaced internally, say by Tryamkin, he will cost as much as S and B. And Tanev, for what he does, is middle of the cost range. Agreed on Jake, though, he is exactly the kind of forward we need in the mix - young, hard shot, strong skater, physical, and years still,left ahead of him. He has improved each of the last two years, and looks like he is still capable of more upward progress.
  16. Especially it this point in Toffoli’s career. He’s been around a long time, he’s 27..... gosh it’s hard to think of that as old, but in hockey, now days, that is getting up there
  17. Two ways (of many) to look at this: The dark side - JB is desperate to save his job. Toffoli is 27, he probably has three years left in what might very well be the waning years of his career. Adding a forward to a team with this defence (other than Hughes) is like lip-sticking a pig. We are giving up Madden who will absolutely lead the Kings to another Stanley Cup three years from now. The extra cap pressure of this contract will keep us from re-signing Pettersson? Hughes? Markstrom? Fill in one of the above. Blah, blah, blah....... The bright side - I am desperate to see the Canucks win a Stanley before I surrender this mortal coil and I have only a few seasons left. The Leipsic on our defence will make opposing forwards reluctant to get close to them. Toffoli is the second coming of Miller. There are no more key injuries in the offing. We actually have a plan to survive the coming cap tsunami. I think I feel incipient schizophrenia - my only possibility of escape is to not be invested in this team in any way. I feel a rush of pity for anyone who is an owner of a hockey team as an act of love - it must be awful to be jilted so harshly and so often.
  18. If Hardy had written a couplet about Schaller’s stick, it would have gone: (For ‘smile on your mouth’ substitute ‘puck on your stick’) “The smile on your mouth was the deadest thing Alive enough to have strength to die;” from Neutral Tones by Thomas Hardy
  19. The number of uncontested opportunities in front of our net also matters.
  20. I think our forwards, for the most, concluded that our end of the rink is exclusively for D, and our D have concluded that the front of our net is a zone for which they are handing out free passes.
  21. You do not understand efficiency, this is a multipurpose blindfold - if after the initial shock to the eyes one has not recovered, he can buy a bottle of screech or porch-climber which he can consume until he actually goes blind.
  22. We are playing just like last game except Markstrom isn’t making impossible saves. Our D is asleep, and with a couple of exceptions, so are the forwards. Better snap out the ammonia and take a strong breathe. I do like the way MacEwen is playing, he acts like he wants to be there.
  23. Myers has the third most icetime per game among Canuck defencemen - a minute and a half per game more than Tanev - who has the FOURTH most time per game. This does not argue that Myers is in some way not being worth what we pay for him. He only gets a few seconds less than Hughes or Edler. At this point, he plays more PP than Edler, and of late the second unit appears to be more effective than the first, even with far less TOI. Here is the icetime per defence man as per NHL.com: http://www.nhl.com/stats/skaters?reportType=season&seasonFrom=20192020&seasonTo=20192020&gameType=2&position=D&playerPlayedFor=franchise.20&filter=gamesPlayed,gte,1&sort=points,goals,assists&page=0&pageSize=50
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