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  1. who's the "we" you're talking about? worry about your own garbage. btw, it's a message board, not a team culture.
  2. I wonder if an NHL team has ever played 16 games in 27 days before? There's nothing else going on in these arenas - it's not like they're juggling nights with concerts, monster trucks, etc. What the excuse for the schedule?
  3. that's an impressive ability to find a solution when there appears to be none.
  4. and it's only a month in - so I'm not going to get overly invested in those 16 games in 27 days.
  5. no one signed Fantenburg....no one in N.A. anyway. unfortunately Benn had the extra year or I'd have preferred Fanta. NHL pro scout fail though that no one signed him (assuming he didn't prefer the K).
  6. they should just save the tribute for the first game with people in the stands.
  7. The mark of a professional = "if rumours are to be believed".....'source'. gotta love canucksarmy. what rumours? were they cooked up in-house? or e5 rumours with no origin/source = that is for amateurs. post a source - that is expected even in a lowly place like this message board. that article is all over the place - 9 'best' places, about 50 names thrown in the soup - a lot of it complete non-starter material. there are a ton of whiffs - but a few good ideas in there. Just pick a handful that actually might make sense - and focus on them, instead of drawing a road map of the continent with stops at about 18 cities...(NHL and AHL).
  8. hes a 6 million cap hit and expires next season - and Nashville would want a principal.
  9. that's not 'sheltered' though - not even close.
  10. I'd pass on that deal - certainly would not add. Good bottom six veteran forwards - but I wouldn't take either of them one for one for either younger forward, ket alone both - and get older on both counts in the process. Might take Sissons in a deal (has a 6yr x 2.8 contract, mind you), but only if Trenin were the other player coming this way.
  11. 16 games in 27 days - with primary shutdown and penalty killing minutes aren't conducive to 'looking fast'.
  12. Anyone that is a workhorse like Edler has been is going to have gaffs - particularly when he's playing the principal shutdown role - with a rookie on many nights (that's a tall task for both Edler and Chatfield - but I think overall they've done well). Chatfield stepping into the league at 29.5% ozone starts on a shutdown pairing - is exceptionally challenging.
  13. He's playing difficult - impressive - minutes thus far. 38.3% ozone starts is almost unheard of for a rookie defenseman. And in those minutes - he's +2, with 3.3 on ice goals for, 2.7 against per 60. .922 on ice save percentage. And killing 1:32 of penalties / game. Normally, he and Hoglander would have a market salivating over their future....but here....these young players are 'expected' at this point, after a handful of draft successes (EP, Hughes, Demko, Boeser) - which is ok, but playoff success is eclipsed by a few weeks of struggles in a covid grind schedule....expecting this team to contend at this stage is probably noob-think.
  14. well - it was candida - but imo it has had very little to do with size, physicality, battle - those aren't concerns regarding Gaudette (I think he plays 'big' enough for his size) - for me it's about reading the play, getting to the right areas of the ice, having the instincts of a defensive center....24 is still young, but at the same time, players that play 3C or bottom 6 C roles - tend to have a 'foundation' to their game. I think Gaudette is either an ozone start, secondary scoring type center (which doesn't really fit with this team at this stage or the near future imo) or he's a winger conversion - and as a winger conversion, he has a tough path in Vancouver. I only trade him if there's a comparable talent and slightly different type of player - at a different position. He's an easy player to like - and the truth is that for long streches for this franchise he would have been their top prospect / best young player - but he's somewhat surrounded by a wealth of young forward talent. I think the focus of the forward group has to shift to succession plans at middle six LW and possibly 3C - Pearson expiring, Rousel is someone I'd look to move and replace with a young forward... really, with Motte, Virtanen, MacEwen, Bailey, Hawryluk, they have young 'bottom 6' wingers.
  15. "And then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in one minute. And is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning, because you see it gets in the lungs and it does a tremendous number on the lungs, so it’d be interesting to check that, so that you’re going to have to use medical doctors with, but it sounds interesting to me."
  16. asks for people to crystal ball the mindset of players half a decade into the future... wonders why he gets 'smartass' responses.
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