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    [GDT/PGT] Nucks @ Flames / Flames @ Nucks

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    You're in midseason form already.

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    Canucks' Team Toughness

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    58 minutes ago, DIBdaQUIB said:

    Virtanen played like Tkachuk when he came to the NHL but had that coached out of him within a couple months.  Instead of letting him be an impactful - though a little on the edge - young player, making an impact - he was immediately called on to tone it down and become a more responsible 200' player...you know...like Chaput and Megna who play the way they are supposed to.

     

    Tkachuk is walking a fine line but he was arguably the most impactful player on the ice last night and showed more grit and tenacity in that one game than our entire team has all year.

    Apparently Burkey and Gully have no problem with Tkachuk's playing style  either. They just let him loose, the whole team followed his lead and lost the game last night. :P  Still, watching Doughty cringe whenever Tkachuk skated toward him was priceless.

     

    Tkachuk would have been fully domesticated by our League of Extraordinary Gentlemen management and the leadership group, had we drafted him. Just look at what they did to JV18 and his game.

     

    Instead of scoring goals and lacking up penalty minutes, Tkachuk would have been just skating 200ft back and forth waving his stick with Chaput and Biega.

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    Canucks' Team Toughness

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    Just like rebuilding, the soft and passive nature of our team won't change until the Sedins and Edler get moved or retired and the next core takes over with a different attitude.

     

    Edler has flat out stopped caring long time ago, and Sedins will keep turning the other cheek until eternity and even might be telling the kids to do the same -- "Respect is a two-way (Benning's favorite phrase) street. Respect your opponents and they'll respect you back."

     

    Of course they won't. The other team just keeps slapping in the back of your head and laughing at you. The current veteran leaders on this team have gotten so used to being taken liberties with not only themselves, but also watching their teammate gets pummeled and doing nothing (except Miller). Is it always fair to blame the rest of the team not standing up for Henrik/Daniel when the opponent tries to knock their head off?  Maybe there is a two-way street somewhere within the team, indeed.

     

    I'm not a big fan of Matthew Tkachuk's antics, but had we drafted Tkachuk I'm sure Linden/WD/Sedins would have told him to tone it down and play just like the other rookies... you know, without the edge and 'show more respect around' kind of stuff, as if we haven't done enough of that bull**** already.

     

    You never win the cup with size, speed or skills alone. You need the right mixture of all three elements in your team, but the current Canucks brass seems to be obsessed with smallish skilled players -- oh and the overrated "two-way" ability.

     

    Memo to the Canucks front office: Never mind winning environment for now. Do something about the "whimpering" environment first. 

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    SCF: (5) New York Rangers vs (6) Los Angeles Kings

    in General Hockey Discussion

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    Oh well. His multi-million bank account will cheer him up.

    It may help, but that's not all.

    For professiona athletes winning chapionship is the ultimate prize, and not many even get a crack at it. Lundquist knows his team blew it and he may never get another chance.

    Do you think Canucks were thinking about their paycheck when they had to watch the Bruins lifting the cup in 2011?

    SCF: (5) New York Rangers vs (6) Los Angeles Kings

    in General Hockey Discussion

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    Bad news for the Canucks - the Kings can easily return essentially their entire team again next year.

    http://www.capgeek.com/armchair-gm/roster/23785

    it's a bad news for the entire league, fans (except LA's) and the game itself. We'll have to endure watching a style of hockey that will make the "Dead Puck" era hockey look like an art in comparison. Virtually every team will now try to copy LA's style, including our very own Canucks.

    I know the league office won't give a s**t about it though, as long as big US market teams keep winning,

    SCF: (5) New York Rangers vs (6) Los Angeles Kings

    in General Hockey Discussion

    Posted · Edited by 1-d

    The KIngs core is getting old and stale.

    Kopitar - one goal in 18 games.

    Richards - relegated to the fourth line.

    Willie - can't have that many more miles in that punished body of his.

    Doughty - is an annoying whiner.

    Why wait? Start the rebuild now.

    Adding to your list...

    Quick - a bitch pretending to be a tough guy

    Brown - king rat of rats; brad marchand 2.0

    Nolan, King, Clifford - freakin' freaks

    Garborik - think he drank from the fountain of youth? Watch him signing a new fat contract with a lesser team in the off season and then fizzling into retirement

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