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Kevin Biestra

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  1. I was not a fan of Juolevi's development at all. I've just seen Benning pull the rip cord too early several times - Forsling, Bonino, McCann, Dahlen. There wasn't much reason to take the risk with Juolevi after this particular preseason.
  2. Most of that just makes the on ice performance and off ice dismantling all the more unforgivable.
  3. I'm just quoting a couple of points. Lidster is a good hockey man and an all time great Canuck. I think he was let go prematurely and I don't think his successors have been better with the possible exception of Brad Shaw. As for Smyl...the guy was tried out at pretty much every role over the decades and he's kind of a jack of all trades, master of none when it comes to life off the ice. He's just a good "glue guy" to the extent that such a role exists for those that wear suits instead of jerseys. He's not really a coach but could fill in for a spell if absolutely necessary, he's not really a GM but could fill in for a spell if absolutely necessary.
  4. A lot of complaining going around about Chiasson on the PP but the thing is - he is the only player on the team with >1 PPG for the season. So the sad question is...where would our PP be without him? The guy everybody wants off the PP is the team leader in PPG. Everybody else is on pace for 7 PPG or 0 for the season. Juolevi...I mean, I was ready to call him a bust but at the same time, there was really no opportunity cost to testing him out for another year and waiving, say, Hunt instead. I'm not big on casting a guy out because of one incident of silly optics... Gretzky peed his pants in the middle of a game once. Everyone made fun of Bobby Smith's hairpiece. Unless it's horrible character or locker room cancer kind of stuff, Juolevi really just made himself look dumb in a practice.
  5. It was ridiculous. Gretzky went to LA and wore the "A" behind Dave Taylor. He didn't even need a letter at all on the Rangers. And who is the guy with the leadership award named after him...
  6. I'm glad for you. It was unbearable. There have never been worse times to follow the team and I am pretty confident there never will be. We had to watch as every decorated old soldier - Linden, Babych, McLean, Odjick, etc. - was basically taken behind the woodshed and shot. It was nothing at all like the "glass half full" mutual departures like Edler or Burrows.
  7. No man, we had a team with Bure, Mogilny, Messier, Naslund and Linden that finished 7th out of 7 teams in the division. Also traded away the starting goalie at least twice that season. Had four different starting goalies over the course of the year. Three of those starting goalies played in multiple NHL all star games and the team was still atrocious.
  8. Beliveau is a great example of a Lady Byng player but I'm against changing the trophy names. The trophy exists because Lady Byng established and donated it.
  9. Dahlen, Forsling, Bonino. Dahlen is looking like a serious player, and I remember the "not allowed to criticize the Canucks" types turning on a dime when we traded him - nah he'll never be anything, he just takes for granted he'll play with Pettersson, him being around will be bad for Pettersson, etc.
  10. Or hits but doesn't realize it (McCann). Same with trades (Dahlen).
  11. I think he might get tempted... For a "drafting guru" he seems to be of the mind that if ain't top 7 it ain't nothing. I think if the Canucks are in real danger of missing the playoffs Francesco will just outright forbid Benning to trade the 1st and 2nd rounder while he decides whether to can him.
  12. Hey the good news is we didn't descend to the basement, we just stayed there from last year.
  13. Maybe, this whole trajectory thus far is reminiscent of Frankie Corrado. So was Juolevi.
  14. Cheechoo is the GOAT of going over a cliff and I agree that Pettersson won't follow that trajectory. But it's still well within the realm of possibility to be Joe Joneau, Jimmy Carson, Alexei Zhamnov or Dale McCourt.
  15. I insinuated nothing of the sort. If you read the discussion you would have seen that the Victor Salva timeline was a direct reply to somebody else talking about people re-entering industries after a few years following wrongdoings. It's not that hard to follow.
  16. None of these were my point and it looks like you may be using strawmen to support your indignation, and I'm not sure why that indignation is being directed at me.
  17. I think Brodeur matched it in 1982. You listed some good times... There have been a few. Didn't Gino skate out for his first ever game wearing #66 to piss off the Penguins, not to mention his 16 goal season, his fight against everyone on the Blues (it is still funny seeing Glenn Anderson packpedal away like a bullfighter with a red cape). Tiger riding his stick, Ronning riding his stick. Gary Smith winning the first ever playoff game. Roger Nielsen with the towels. Stan Smyl getting his face slashed by Billy Smith in the final two minutes of Game 4 against the Islanders and doing nothing while blood poured down his face to make sure his team didn't go shorthanded. John Garrett at the all star game. Beating the Flames 11-0. Linden sending Jeff Norton right through the glass.
  18. Pretty easy to picture Torts laying the smack down. Even easier to picture Pat Quinn just banging Aldrich's head off the wall and then throwing him out a window. But Joel Quenneville was by most accounts one of those guys. A leader of men and a big brother figure back in his playing days in Hartford, where it was always predicted that he was the guy who would end up a coach one day. You see what people are made of once the rubber hits the road. Not beforehand and I daresay also not with "here's what I would have done" on the internet the following Monday.
  19. I would say it also didn't really help Luongo. Only got one tiny sniff of the playoffs ever again on a crap team. Kevin McCarthy quietly requested a trade after losing the C in 1982 and I think his career was significantly worse for it.
  20. He went for the money after that Sedin year, simply to the highest bidder with no other considerations. He then immediately played his way out of the league, getting traded mid-year, getting one point in his last ten games, and then nobody in the NHL ever being interested again. Obviously not the kind of long term albatross deal that Ehrhoff signed, but neither of Carter's next two teams were thrilled.
  21. Schneider wasn't really a bad contract. The Devils got Vezina finalist caliber years out of Schneider. Ehrhoff was terrible. Anson Carter probably got overpaid by his next team as well.
  22. It's not my all time favorite memory but it's one I don't think anyone else remembers. In Trevor Linden's final season, where he got healthy scratched twentysomething times, he was in the lineup during the season and on the penalty kill. The other team had a 5-on-3 for either a full two minutes or close to it. Linden went out and killed the first minute or so as the only forward and then there was a stoppage in play. Linden skated back to the bench, exhausted, and then Vigneault looked up and down the bench for a better option and sent Linden back to take the faceoff. It's the only time I've ever seen a standing ovation for player deployment on a penalty kill.
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