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Canucks Flying Skate Jersey Could be Making a Comeback
Kevin Biestra replied to Me_'s topic in Canucks Talk
Arbitrary math? It's not that difficult to count years and count Cup finals. It's grade two stuff. You are just making up nonsense numbers as a strawman. The other stuff I proposed - cumulative character and results - could well be evaluated somehow and nothing would be as stupid as the word and number salad you just spewed out. -
Canucks Flying Skate Jersey Could be Making a Comeback
Kevin Biestra replied to Me_'s topic in Canucks Talk
Their best teams by far... If you take the results and cumulative team character wearing blue and green divided by 35, and then the results and cumulative character wearing black red yellow and divide by 15, I'm going with black red yellow. In over twice the time, half the Cup finals. I would not say at all that the Canucks have had by far their best teams in blue and green. -
Canucks Flying Skate Jersey Could be Making a Comeback
Kevin Biestra replied to Me_'s topic in Canucks Talk
The Canucks have been around for over 50 years. They had the flying skate logo for around 15 of those years, less than a third of it, but had 2 of their 3 trips to the Cup Final wearing it. There was little reason to change it and I don't think people who actually like it will start complaining about it if they get it. -
Predict The Score Contest: VAN @ CHI Oct 21st 2021
Kevin Biestra replied to goalie13's topic in Canucks Talk
I think it was 11-0. At least Jeff Reese didn't pull a Patrick Roy and say he was never playing for the Flames again. Not that management would have cared too much... -
Is Pettersson not the same player we expect him to be?
Kevin Biestra replied to b3nnyb's topic in Canucks Talk
You have the same eyebrows as Adolf Hitler. -
Is Pettersson not the same player we expect him to be?
Kevin Biestra replied to b3nnyb's topic in Canucks Talk
People read too much into a specific comparison. Petr Klima was Gretzky like in his stickhandling...arguably the best in the league. He was just a substantially above average player overall though. -
Is Pettersson not the same player we expect him to be?
Kevin Biestra replied to b3nnyb's topic in Canucks Talk
Pettersson is absolutely not yet on par with Matthews. It's not even particularly close. Pettersson is very good but he has to actually live up to his projections and upside, not just be credited with having achieved those when he has topped out at 65 points or so. -
Is Pettersson not the same player we expect him to be?
Kevin Biestra replied to b3nnyb's topic in Canucks Talk
The bears are who we thought they were. -
Predict The Score Contest: VAN @ CHI Oct 21st 2021
Kevin Biestra replied to goalie13's topic in Canucks Talk
14-0 Chicago. -
Your opinion of Corey Hirsch's colour commentary work?
Kevin Biestra replied to nuckin_futz's topic in Canucks Talk
Hrudey doesn't age because he keeps pumping his face full of canola oil or whatever anti aging thing. I remember the first time he did it about 15 years ago, I was watching with a buddy and he just said "what the hell happened to Kelly Hrudey's face?" But yeah I think he has found slightly more natural looking methods and his hockey talk has always been pretty good. I like what Ray Ferraro has to say about hockey but I was first introduced to him (or reintroduced to him post playing days) as a Team 1040 guy and he was always doing audio commercials for garbage scams and you never get a second chance to make a first impression. 1040 was really bad when it came to selling their ad time to whomever. They would have let Bernie Madoff or Jim Jones advertise on their station if they offered $1 more than the next guy. Goalies always seem to drift into the business of TV and radio personality at a way higher rate than the skaters. -
Your opinion of Corey Hirsch's colour commentary work?
Kevin Biestra replied to nuckin_futz's topic in Canucks Talk
Garrett is one of the most underrated color men in the league and his stories are actually the kind of stuff I want to hear between plays. The guy has seen it all from WHA goalie brawls to the NHL All Star game and tells it in a friendly way. -
Yes if you line them all up in a redraft by games played he goes somewhere mid-1st. But like I said, we got a close up look. The guy was only in the lineup because of sunk costs and the hope that he would live up to his draft position, and that was squeaking into the lineup of a crap team that finished at the bottom of the league nearly every season. I mean, we all saw Virtanen. Did he really turn out substantially better and contribute more than, say, 180 game Haydn Fleury... He just played more games because we wasted more time on him.
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I still think Virtanen is a bust, games played be damned. In this case, we were able to see the quality of games whereas we might just have to go with the games stat with someone from another team. He wasn't a stop gap until younger guys developed, he wasn't a glue guy, he wasn't a defensive guy, just a "blue chip" offensive talent who scored very few points. He was just a waste of a roster spot where someone else could have developed. On top of that there were character questions before the pick was made and...holy moley did that turn out to be the case. As to Chris Phillips... Can't judge him too harshly. His draft year was crap, maybe worse than the Sedin year. There were very few players that turned out better from that draft, even though Phillips was pretty middling as first overall picks go.
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How can he not be a success with 32 points in 43 games last year. 3 points in 2 games so far this year. We were Geoff Courtnall's 5th team when he arrived here. Meanwhile, I would say it is too early to give credit to Podkolzin as a successful pick. So I would say he is 4 for 6 in actual first rounders drafted. I guess 4 for 8 if you insist on counting the traded away picks... But I don't see the point in calling a traded pick an automatic failure as an amateur scout, nor classifying a too early to tell pick as a failure for the percentage (which is what was done with a 3 for 9 or 33%).
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I think 1991 Ronning was probably the first ever beast mode. At least if goalies aren't counted.
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It's Brodeur or Naslund in my books. Alek Stojanov was basically nothing where Naslund became a league MVP. The cost for Brodeur was switching 5th rounders with another team, basically equivalent to getting someone on waivers, and it resulted in a trip to the final. There were plenty of other great trades but in all of those we had to give up quality pieces...Sundstrom, Butcher, Linden, McCabe, Vaive, Derlago, Lever, Fraser, etc. We got Brodeur and Naslund for essentially nothing. If we still had Sundstrom in 1989 (plus what we got for him) we beat Calgary. If we still had Vaive and Derlago in 1982 we might have beat the Islanders. If we still had Stojanov after the Naslund trade he wouldn't have made the team, nor would not switching 5th round picks have had any consequence.
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Yeah a lot of that is luck of the draw. If Mike Liut or Don Beaupre had been on the Oilers, they would have been Grant Fuhr, same as Andy Moog if there had been no Fuhr to compete with. Liut did the same thing...started leading the league in GAA right at the end of his career... Liut is still arguably a Hall of Famer anyway. Essentially won the Vezina in 1981 under the modern criteria, beat out Gretzky for the Pearson, Vezina finalist and post-season All Star another time, and the 1981 Canada Cup. Now people just know him as a player agent...because he was on the Blues and Whalers instead of the Oilers.
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His Vezina this last season probably put him over the top. Until that he was kind of in the same boat as Chris Osgood.
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Good news for you homes, Hossa is already in. And yeah, Doughty and Kopitar are pretty much locks to get in as well.
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What the heck are you talking about? And he didn't play 20 years anyway.