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Miss Korea Bob.Loblaw

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  1. That is not how the league rules work and you know it. The onus is on the hitter not the aim for the numbers and he had his back turned to Maroon for some time. Maroon runs straight into Gio, and not from the side. Maroon should know better. Now, a roughing call is BS. Honestly, what specifically should Gio have done?
  2. What is a player here supposed to do to protect themselves? It's against the half boards and he's going straight to the puck.
  3. The ref 5 feet away should've absolutely called that. And the ref from centre ice should be telling the other guy to wake up. That is a penalty any day of the year.
  4. Dangle losing his mind is kind of his thing and he knows it. He rages as hard as he does because Toronto has consistently been a good team that seems to choke in the playoffs. I do wish Vancouver had a more energetic fan like him. I think even Calgary and Edmonton have guys like him on YouTube.
  5. Does anyone here enjoy watching the Steve Dangle casts? I actually like it because he sometimes quiets up and I can just hear the sounds of the game and arena. When he's dialed in he just starts mumbling random Leafs stuff and I can just focus on what I'm seeing.
  6. So a team like Arizona would try to get Vancouver to pay up for such a move. They wouldn't just claim any deadweight contract without asking for something in return. So we go back to Myers getting traded away, not claimed via waivers. I think there's a good likelihood Arizona is on that no-trade list.
  7. When Vancouver people got together in the past, a mini-riot was likely to break out. People from the '94 riot looked back like it was a cool moment in the city's history. 2011 definitely changed a lot of things. You always hear stories about fans rioting in the streets following a victory. Why is it that Vancouver was the only sports city to riot twice after losing the Cup Finals? Do people think other big American cities have no anarchists roaming their streets?
  8. ding ding ding ding It's tiring seeing multiple people post every single day how Myers can easily get traded away after his bonus gets paid. It gets paid out Sept. 15. That is super late for a team to be making large cap moves. And that team must indeed a place Myers is willing to go. He signed a great contract to basically ensure his five years would be spent here and only here.
  9. We are going in circles here because you keep pivoting. You said 3 coaches were getting paid and that's why Boudreau wasn't fired right away. What kind of reasoning is that? I'm saying it makes no difference firing a coach in December or February - you still have to compensate him. Your theory on his point production isn't based on anything that you can see on the ice. It's just a narrative. Surely you saw the tactics being deployed: feed Horvat in the high slot. Nobody except him tried to shoot the puck until they started to regain form in February. Horvat was NEVER the #1 option here until this year. You remind me a lot of Skip Bayless in this clip, and it's not a good thing:
  10. Don't overlook Florida just yet. Boston is having to deal with their own injury issues. Bergeron is clearly not 100% and Krejci has gone down too. But should Toronto advance and lose to Boston in round 2, I think it would depend on the manner of how they lose.
  11. No ownership wants to pay 3 coaches at the same time, but we ended up doing that anyways. Worse, we waited too long to the point that the new coach didn't have enough time to even try to make the playoffs. As for Horvat, did you forget your own argument? I gave you multiple reasons to try and explain why Horvat was playing better this year, but I was the one saying his finishing% was a fluke and unsustainable. You are the one trying to say it was not a fluke and that he was doing it purely to chase money. People can't just suddenly score at such an insane efficiency because they're trying harder. Please go back and read my post on why Horvat played well with us this year and respond directly to that.
  12. What are you agreeing to disagree with? You tried to make two points: 1. Boudreau was kept on for longer than necessary because he was already under contract. Whether you fire someone in December or February, you still had to pay the man. 2. Horvat was more productive this season because he was "playing for his contract, plain and simple." That isn't any kind of insightful hockey analysis. I'm not going to let you get away with that kind of oversimplified argument.
  13. What point are you trying to make about Green? You keep talking about Boudreau getting fired to save money. Whether we fired him yesterday or today, it wouldn't matter - we'd still have to pay him. Same for Boudreau. The Canucks didn't save anything by waiting two months to fire him. We paid three head coaches this year, and the timing of Rick Tocchet would've never changed anything. Bo Horvat did play better overall in almost every way, but his finish skyrocketed to unbelievable heights. Everything he touched seemed to go in. There is absolutely nothing plain and simple with how players improve. That is just your typical, generalizing sports journalism BS. I already mentioned earlier in this thread that Horvat became the clear #1 option on our Canucks powerplay. For various reasons, Miller, Boeser, and Petersson were all having a rough first half of the season. All of them are valid shooting options, but Horvat was the only in-form shooter on this team. So it was a sensible idea to throw everything to him in the bumper slot. That's a much better effort at trying to explain his improved production than a nonsensical suggestion that "he was playing harder for his contract". Note that his production began to regress back to the mean during his last 10 games in Vancouver, right around the time the other players returned to form.
  14. If I genuinely think you're the wrong man the for job I'm not going to keep you on for another 2 months and completely give up on this year. You keep mentioning how Boudreau was under contract. He still was when he got fired in February. There is no doubt that keeping Boudreau cost us more games than necessary. Any normal team would've fired him immediately and put Mike Yeo on as an interim until Tocchet was ready. It just didn't make any sense to humiliate Boudreau and embarrass the team image for no good reason. In any case, this is about Bo Horvat, not Bruce Boudreau. Neither of them were trying to prove anything. Horvat is not a natural 20% shooter - he couldn't recreate that magic even if he played his guts out for New York. I hate this sports trope fans love to use that "they didn't try hard enough". That is complete nonsense. Unique circumstances led to Horvat being the #1 option on the PP (to which he excelled in), and it inflated his value until he got traded and our other stars returned to form. Your talk about country club culture makes no sense when the leaguewide hockey community thinks the coach was done dirty by management, who is still here.
  15. There is a reason hockey fans around the league have nicknamed him "Dale Makar" An aside question - has anyone else here wondered why Nichuskin is out of the series? What do you folks think is going on with him?
  16. Nope. Don't even try. As soon as management publicly states they don't believe in a head coach, you've got about 7 days to get rid of him and begin the search for a replacement. It took over 2 months, and we just kept losing and losing and losing. Rutherford openly admitted he mishandled that situation so don't try to play it off like this was a normal, overblown thing. It completely cratered our season and made our Tocchet surge meaningless.
  17. Using Bruce Boudreau as an example of culture and actions v. words.... doesn't that seem ironic to you? Management threw him under the bus then hid for two months while the players and Bruce had to deal with the media circus. It was humiliating and earned the hatred of hockey fans all over the world. Literally everyone agreed that Vancouver was doing him dirty. It's not like I'm that satisfied with Rutherford/Allvin's performance so far. But even if they do really well next year, they will never have my full support because of how unprofessional the Boudreau firing was handled. Never forget that.
  18. Absolutely. Start winning some games and it doesn't matter what ownership/management/players do wrong. The fans will eat it all up if they're winning.
  19. The only metric that stood out at the time of the Horvat trade was his unreal finishing percentage. Before this year, the only time Horvat looked like a potential first line centre was that wild run during the COVID bubble. That's it. At no real point would I have looked at Horvat and figured he was worth $8.5 million. Certainly his performance in London helped elevate our expectations, but we never thought he'd be a first line centre. Paying a firm 2C that much money is a serious overpayment.
  20. Right, and he was apparently offered the RNH contract, according to rumours. But that is more than just a discount. He turned down a 41 million contract and accepted one that was 68 million. He ended up getting more than 50% of what we could offer. Even if that was a massive overpayment, in hindsight the RNH contract is indeed a low blow compared to what Horvat bagged. We offered him multiple extensions but simply couldn't pay him his true value, which I think is around $6.5M. We gave that to Boeser. We made our choices. For the record, RNH came off an abysmal season when he got recommitted with Edmonton. 35 points. Turns out he's a late bloomer who plays a far better offensive game than a two-way game. Horvat would've accepted a $5M extension had he not scored 30 goals the season before and struggled this year too.
  21. That is some hard revisionism. At the end of last summer, the writing was on the wall that Horvat wasn't going to be able to extend his contract. There is no doubt that had he been offered an extension by Vancouver, he would've taken it. But we offered it to J.T. Miller instead. We had re-signed Boeser and signed Mikheyev to max out our cap. Both sides accepted the reality that there simply wasn't any room left for Horvat. It's why all the Horvat fans were annoyed with the Miller/Mikheyev contracts. They knew what it meant. It's far cry from your suggestion that Horvat essentially abandoned the team.Him scoring at such an insane clip seems more like a fluke than anything. Nobody can sustain a 20% shot percentage. He was the #1 option on the PP because... Boeser and Miller had miserable first halves, and Petey was still a bit injured.
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