DIBdaQUIB
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Bad start to the season but i'm reassured about management after they announced the major deal with Rogers. Comforting to know they are on top of things.
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It is essential to have a lead in order to be able to blow it.
All is going as planned.
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This team plays a very consistent style.
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17 minutes ago, -DLC- said:
I don't buy that for a second.
His personality is one of a competitor who hates to lose. Nope.
If he didn't care he'd likely be closer to home by now...he saw something here in this team and wants to win with them.
Then he better start playing a 200 foot game, Deb. He has been on the ice for every goal against.
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3 hours ago, Alflives said:
So Benning and his management all get the axe. Five Scouts get the axe. These ones today from the performance get the axe. But Ron Delorme stays?
So far. I don't think jr is done by any means.
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24 minutes ago, -DLC- said:
"The current team" isn't the same over the years...that's the part that you're failing to see.
Petey, Quinn, Hoglander, Podkolzin....all drafted within the past 5 years and on the roster. I'm not sure it's fair to pin "failed for years" on a team that's breaking in many players.
The composition is new players being worked in to the team along with a supporting cast.
The current roster is much different than the one just a couple of years ago....so it's really not relevant to pin this roster with past failures.
I mean, this roster here and now or this one (from 3 years ago):
Everyone acknowledges pro hockey is a business yet they seem to accept a company that consistently underperformed and sometimes flat out fails. In the real world businesses need results to succeed. The Canucks have had a revolving door of players, coaches and staff for years but have always iced a team that at best might make the playoffs. Some are satisfied with the hope and promise of rhat model. JR obviously is not and is cutting out anything he sees as part of the rot that led to long term mediocrity. It is long overdue.
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King's helmets look like something from Tron.
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2 minutes ago, bishopshodan said:
Might have mentioned this before....
Stud.
So you're saying "trade him."
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20 minutes ago, kilgore said:
Yup, sure would've been nice for JR and Alvin to have more of a clean slate and extra cap going into next season that would have happened if Benning had simply allowed LE, Roussel, and Beagle's contracts to run out. But he just had to, or the owner had to, have just one more "we can turn this team around quickly" screw the future re-furbish.
One thing I will never forgive Benning for, and am reminded of it every time we play Calgary. How he indirectly handed Calgary Markstrom, Tanev, and Toffoli. Three important pieces in their success.
Markstrom he should have seen the writing on the wall earlier and looked to trade him....to an eastern conference team. "But but but he didn't know if Demko could handle the load".....that is why he is paid the big bucks and we are not. He is closer to the players, its his job, and his staff, as professionals to evaluate that talent. Hopefully a better position than a hockey message board. And early enough to make a difference. Their hand wringing about it too long meant we not only lost him for nothing..but to our closest rival. Unforgivable
Tanev should have been re-signed. Management should have realized that he brought more than his on ice work to the team. He was a key "team culture" player. Even if they thought if they gave him the 4.5 x 4 that Calgary paid, was an over-payment, he brought so much more as far as team chemistry. The GM should have been more aware of that. And barring a deal, if you don't think you can afford him, a trade to the eastern conference would have been prudent.
Toffoli is an even more indirect acquisition from us, but it still was put in motion by the topsy turvy way JB managed the team. The lack of communication with both Tanev and Toffoli (and Stecher) did not help. Toffoli should have remained a Canuck. Never gone to Montreal in the first place. Who then had no qualms sending him back out west to Calgary.
Yet another missing value+ you missed.....besides the extra 12 mill in cap, and the extra high picks, the return we could have gotten for Marky, and/or Tanev. And the fact we lost Madden and a second round pick as well.
Yes some will say there was a timing issue. And the unexpected flat cap. And other excuses for JB. Sorry but the buck stops with him. Its why he is in that privileged position. He has to find a way. The utter lack of communication was just a symptom of the kind of confused "day to day" management style of the Benning Weisbrod regime.
I'm just glad he was too dim to realize his mistake in re-signing Green. Another "great" evaluation of talent by him. If he'd have gotten Boudreau in here sooner, we may never be rid of him.
Ultimately it falls on ownership. They keep GMs beyond when they should and allow them to make desperate moves in a failed effort to save their jobs. this leaves a mess for the next management to have to clean up. It always sets the team back and limits the opportunity for new management to make the moves they would like.
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Not hard to see how Minnesota is achieving success. The refs are allowing them to mug with impunity. Obvious interference and a slew foot in the last few seconds alone and no call. The NHL continues to manage outcomes. It is and always will be the least professional league in all of pro sports.
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Boeser having an impact already
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3 minutes ago, Jack in the box said:
Looks like a draw.
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Tyler myers the canuck killer.
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2 minutes ago, Devron said:
Myers trying to make an impossible pass. I could read that a mile away
Which one of his bad passes are you referring to? There have been a few tonight. His situational awareness is noticeable by its absence.
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1 hour ago, DeNiro said:
So why is it that we’re such a better team on the road?
Do the players get nervous playing in front of their fans?
Does Bruce try to line match too much at home?
Do they not like the colour blue? Home cooking sucks?
Like there’s gotta be a reason for it.
Too much sex (if that's even possible) at home.
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Just now, -DLC- said:
NICE SLAM BY PEARSON THERE!
He has played some strong hockey the past few games. He plays a heavy game, well suited to playoff style games
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Everyone just freeze and maybe they won't score.
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6 hours ago, wai_lai416 said:
Lol you are ready to crown him useless in the playoff and podz would be better based on nothing. He performed based on his only appearance in the playoff but you are already saying well thats nothing as its a small sample size. But he had 1 major injury in his 4 years now and he's injury prone apparently. At least I can base his playoff performance on small sample size.. better than you basing him will struggle in the playoff on nothing? So are you saying Miller can't perform in the playoffs either than based on the stats he only has 46 points in 82 games that 1 playoff with vancouver is only a small sample size compared to all the other years.
Your hyperbole is out of control.
Time will tell.
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1 hour ago, wai_lai416 said:
frequently injured and struggling with injury? he had 1 big injury on his wrist so where's the frequent?
1 playoff bubble short track record
1 major injury frequently injured and struggling with injury lol hyprocrit much?
relax champ.
yes. One bubble appearance is not much of a track record to prove playoff pedigree.
He missed a significant part of last year with an injury and admitted to struggling for much of this year with one. That's a lot of down time for a guy who is only in year 3 of his career. Maybe its an indication of durability, maybe its not. only time will tell.
I like Petey and would be thrilled if he becomes what you already seem to think he is. l am just not ready to crown him a playoff star based on what I've seen, you apparently are.
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12 hours ago, wai_lai416 said:
Lol another useless dig at EP.. pretty sure EP did fine against St Louis and Vegas in the 2 playoff series in the bubble... u know 2 of the biggest fastest strongest team in the playoffs?
Pretty short track record and he has been frequently injured or struggling with an injury. Time will hopefully tell if he can handle the heavy going for a long playoff run.
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21 minutes ago, T-Bo said:
I like Pettersson, but he seriously needs to start eating a bucket of chicken and a tub Tom & Jerry’s every night.
Put a few pounds on already, not your rookie anymore. Stop being pushed off the puck.
If this group ever makes the playoffs, I see Podz as being a more effective player rhan Petey. Seeing how big strong teams play in the post season, I just don't see him as being able to survive and produce.
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Tocchet coaching for job security already?