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  1. Luongo chirps in. Strombone ‏@strombone1 2h @kbieksa3 I always knew those nudes you had of management would come in handy someday..... #congrats
  2. Just found out that there is 4th Canuck on Team Canada Canucks Mike Burnstein is the head athletic trainer for the team
  3. Garry Valk ‏@gvalksportsnet 29m My source told me Linden met with Benning last week and the meeting went great. Caps are also in the mix so Linden better move quickly. I am hoping it will be Benning and Trotz.
  4. KB3 - Captain Canada Excellent choice!! Don Cherry is gonna go nuts!! @tsn_wally: Bieksa has been named team captain. Turris and Chimera are the alternates. @tsn_wally: Team Canada D pairings: Garrison Bieksa Coburn Myers Gudbranson/Rielly Ellis @tsn_wally: Team Canada Lines Burrows Turris MacKinnon Hodgson Kadri Brouwer Huberdeau Schenn Read Chimera Scheifele Ward Monahan
  5. How long before Tortorella's hatchet job on the whole organization. He strikes me as a guy who will go out swinging. I am sure It will be everyones fault but his own
  6. I cannot believe this "Its everybody elses fault that Torts will be fired" The truth is, is that Tortorella is the reason Tortorella is going to get fired! He has no one else to blame but himself for getting himself canned. Absolutely no player, not one, had a good season under his coaching regime. Most players had their absolute worst season under his coaching! Add in the CGY embarrassment, where he exposed himself as the hot headed arrogant fool that he is, He himself has made this decision to fire him a no brainer. Worst hiring since Bill LaForge and he only made it a month before he was terminated
  7. Thanks for posting, I had no idea that Torts had done the exact same thing to DeBoer! Hypocrite is correct!
  8. After this nightmare of a season, Hiring Torts was obviously a big mistake to begin with! Giving him another season would be an even bigger mistake!
  9. Todd McClellen (if the Kings take out the Sharks) Adam Oates Dan Blysma (If CBJ takes out Pens) Barry Trotz John Stevens Mike Johnston (Winterhawks) Marc Crawford
  10. BREAKING NEWS: A 6.7 Quake has shifted the earth on the West Coast of BC... the stars are aligned for a Cup run win next season!
  11. Will John Tortorella survive Benning? And if you want to speculate what Benning might do about a coach, know this: he does not possess the type of personality that tolerates a coach who provides a juicy sound bite each time he's near a mike. Nor, after his time playing in Toronto where he was depended upon more than was good for him or the team, will he want a coach that glues his bottom six forwards to the bench and overuses the veterans on the top six. In other words John Tortorella will last as Canucks head coach for about as long as the Boston Bruins last in the 2013-14 Stanley Cup playoffs. Read more: http://www.digitaljournal.com/sports/will-jim-benning-be-the-next-gm-of-the-vancouver-canucks/article/381415#ixzz2zNxBeG51
  12. Stastny is the #1 pick of the UFA's He will be worth every penny of the $7M to $8M he will get. I seriously doubt that he will sign in Vancouver, if Tortorella is the coach!
  13. Do you think that any quality UFA's are going to want to sign with the Canucks if Torts is still coaching the team after this debacle of a season? Stastny Gaborik Boyle Vanek Ryan Callahan is the only quality UFA I can think of that would even consider it! We got rid of Gillis, who had trouble making trades partially because the other GM's in the league had no respect for him or just plain didn't like him. He is gone now and a new GM is coming in with a clean state and connections throughout the league. Something that Gillis had none of. Torts could have that same affect on potential UFA's, nobody will want to sign into his "system" Torts is a Gillis hire, Gillis is gone, Torts should go with him.
  14. Tortorella says "the Canucks core is stale, old and living in the past" Maybe Tortorella "should keep his mouth shut" If you went to Chinatown and went into one of the old creepy stores back rooms, and then down into the basement where these old people are living, and then thru that trap door into the sub basement and down there in the sub basement is where the old weird guy that is covered in green scales lives. That guy would be a better coach than Tortorella!
  15. Tampa Bay Lightning are disputing the OT goal. They have video showing that Weise's chin was 4 feet offside entering the zone, also on the scoring play, that Weises's chin was clearly in the crease and blocked Lindback's ability to make the save. So Weises chin was offside, in the crease and was clearly goaltender interference! The video did show that his chin was below the crossbar, so the puck was not batted in by a high chin.
  16. 04/15/14 Victoria $10,000 for actions by Club deemed detrimental to the League at Portland on April 10 04/11/14 - Steven Hodges - Five games for g.m. at Portland on April 10 - He threw two separate punches at an unsuspecting opponent during altercation 04/11/14 - Brandon Magee - 12 games for match penalty at Portland on April 10 - It is the second match penalty for the player this season - There were separate crosschecks to the heads of two opponents during incident
  17. Mackcanuck, on 14 Apr 2014 - 7:54 PM, said: So that's the reason why Royals lost to Portland? No, the reason the Royals lost was because Portland had the better team.
  18. CALGARY, AB. - The Western Hockey League announced today the disciplinary action which has been taken against the Portland Winterhawks franchise for a series of violations of the WHL Regulations. As a result of a series of player benefit violations which have occurred over the past four seasons, WHL Commissioner Ron Robison has suspended the Portland Winterhawks from participating in the first five rounds of the 2013 WHL Bantam Draft and the forfeiture of their first round selections in the 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017 WHL Bantam Drafts. Should the first round selection in 2014 not be available due to a conditional trade, Portland will surrender their second and third round picks in the 2014 WHL Bantam Draft. The WHL also announced the Portland Winterhawks have been fined $200,000 and Winterhawks General Manager and Head Coach Mike Johnston has been suspended for the balance of the 2012-13 season, including the 2013 WHL Playoffs. “All WHL Clubs understand they are required to fully comply and respect our League Regulations or they will face significant consequences,” stated WHL Commissioner Ron Robison. “WHL Clubs are required to fully disclose all commitments they make to a player in the WHL Standard Player Agreement. Our independent investigation in this case revealed there were multiple violations over an extended period for player benefits that are not permitted under WHL Regulations and were not disclosed to the WHL. It should also be noted through the course of the investigation there was no evidence of any payments or enhanced education benefits provided to players that would be contrary to WHL Regulations as previous media reports indicated.”
  19. What I get from that interview is an arrogant man blaming everything and anything on anybody but himself. His philosophy is, I am right and everybody else is wrong. I find it strange that all the players interviewed took ownership of this debacle of a season, But Tororella choses to accept only the smallest,slightest minimum of responsibility. If Tortorella gets fired,( I trully hope he does, we can do so much better than him) It is of his own incompetence, If he stays, and I hope he does not, what big time UFA is going to sign to play under this nutcase! Think about it! I don't want this guy anywhere near our young players. Enough damage has already been done to this team under his misdirection
  20. Kesler has an NTC not a NMC A NMC means no movement, period! A NTC could mean many different scenarios, depending on the language of the contract. If Management told Kesler to supply a list, then he is contractually obligated to supply one if it is in his contract. I believe Kesler when he says he wants to stay.
  21. CAR leads 4-1 early in the 2nd period Manny has one of the goals!
  22. We hold the #6 pick after last nights loss. If we lose to CGY tonight we lock up the #6 pick with the 6.2% chance of winning the lottery pick on Tues. If we win against CGY we would drop to the #7 pick only if CAR loses @PHI, No matter what, we cannot pick worse than #7 now If CAR beats PHI @ noon today, then we could lay a beat down on CGY and still hold the #6 pick! NOTHING COULD BE FINE A, THAN A WIN FOR CAROLINA
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