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  1. Any of the play-off teams would want the 4-5-1 LA Kings to just about anyone else. They lost 9-3 yesterday to Colorado & I’d like to see a similar result vs CLB on Saturday.
  2. Canucks need to win this one going away! Chia-pet gets a goal, Dries gets a goal, every Canuck should feel like they can score a goal vs ARZ, tonight! Go Canucks Go!
  3. Loved your post - with the exception of calling ‘Ron MacLean’ a superstar. His villification of Burrows in support of a justly disgraced & discredited former NHL referee & then enabling Don Cherry’s pro-Bruins-brand of hockey propaganda to proliferate across this nation for the majority of his CBC tenure - is frankly unforgivable. He chose to vilify Canada’s last 2011 team standing, to all Canadians coast to coast, simply to appease an NHL BOG President for his contractual security. Well, that apparently back-fired when the following year, true hockey fans & corporate sponsors protested on mass. His incessant name-dropping & appeasing of “the man” only gets Ron so far….& when/where character mattered, he was on the wrong-side of history attempting to vilify & demean players & persons of such quality as the Sedin twins. ^He wears that shame forever & cannot be lauded with any praiseworthy superlatives, as a result.
  4. Just wishing there was a miracle bag & a trick or two up Rutherford’s sleeve, should this young scrappy-upstart team actually make it into the big show this season.
  5. ^He is legitimately post-Covid affected & may be unable to return & in jeopardy of losing his playing career - but scenarios such as these can be legit…or formulated & fraudulent, also. What if?? Loop-holes need some fixing - damn straight!
  6. Should we wait to see if Brandon Sutter re-emerges after it is known that the Canucks may or may not be making the play-offs? Probably shouldn’t joke about someone legitimately struggling to return to the game. And - he would not be as big of a play-off score as “Mr. Stamkos” & Mr. K were in Tampa Bay in subsequent years, but what’s good for the goose is good for the gander, eh?. It’s clearly a way to hide your aging veterans on expiring contracts, who may still wish to take a run at a cup with your team…yet not wish to put in a full season, in order to be much healthier to do so. ^LTIR-Cheating-the-Cap-gate
  7. Yet, they wouldn’t let a legitimate long-term creative contract stand by grandfathering it in & our non/O-6 or southern US market Canucks got screwed-over with recapture penalties on Luongo’s contract. This league is so controlled by insiders. By a pack of old-school insiders. I’m hoping that Rutherford has amassed enough clout that can be extended to cover all of the affronts Aquilini has made to those very same power-mongers. We may not be an old-school franchise, but perhaps it’s time for the more progressives to rule the day! Other keys to victory is the favour of the NHLOA & who assigns officiating crews, or who is appointed to sit upon the DPS & helps to levy suspensions. Right now, the DPS doesn’t seem to have enough regional representation upon it….or term limits. With league parity, these variables can easily exert influence & help decide hockey games, play-off spots, series & Scup/winners. And when it gets bad, you’ve got to wonder if it’s merely a series of poor calls & some mildly biased decision-making by certain zebras or is it a calculated effort to interfere in the process & favour certain teams & marketplaces over others. Where there’s investigative smoke there’s fire & the NHL’s head office, board rooms, back rooms & chat rooms are full of smoke & noise! (Campbell-gate, Auger-gate, Fraser-gate, Brian Burke’s consultation-fee-rewards program, the NHL’s violence/anti-violence mixed-messaging in the Mark Messier leadership award, etc) cough* cough* cough*
  8. April 28 vs LA… on a back to back with April 29 vs EDM… as the last 2 games of the season - could be the end-games that this team MUST win. What a tough ask… but, I still BELIEVE!
  9. Yah, and with this laudable-group vetting prospects, I believe character issues will not likely be the main failings being questioned in their draftees, again.
  10. I hear ya! How they could have let the situation drag-on so that the fans actually needed to demand Benning’s firing en-mass in a chant, is beyond me! A few turn-around wins even a week earlier, may end up being the calculated difference. Aquilini’s hesitancy is to blame if they fall short. But, they are making a charge forward & their faith in one another & in this coach is something to admire. It’s seems far & away from the position they were in just after the Christmas break.
  11. Definitely targeting LA & 3rd spot in the division instead of a wildcard. LA’s record over the past 10 is the worst of all the play-off spot holders & chasers still alive, in the conference. That’s the path.
  12. Canucks won the special teams battle tonight, 2/3 on the PP vs 0/3. That’s something too!
  13. Hope it doesn’t get any worse. Yah - Rogers find some life to help these lads along! Go Canucks Go!! Chant!!
  14. I wanna see Garland perform & execute a Burr-wrap-around goal! He’s been in the process of doing it so many times!
  15. They did it in the second & they do ^hat frequently, enough…its when the passes aren’t launched or mental mistakes cause teammates to fall out of sync. Failure to launch or support the launch is on the D-corps.
  16. Canucks owned the 2nd period. They need to play the rest of the 3rd like they played in the second. Bullish & more determined!
  17. give our guys a second wind… give our guys a second wind… give our guys a second wind…
  18. Yup, getting passes out, containing the opposition along the boards & squeezing them off of pucks more often, would be nice!
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