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  1. ya he has been largely forgotten by almost everyone covering the team.... more talk about richardson on the 3rd line than schroeder (and as far as can be told, he has more time auditioning than schroeder as well?.. not sure about that) anyways, make or break this year - richardson on the 4th, schroeder on the 3rd, and horvat and gaunce another year or 3 later...
  2. nooooooooooooooooooooo............ not this thread again!
  3. Gaunce is looking like a great 3rd line center at some point. If you think there is a problem with that - think of how valuable a Manny Malholtra type player can be for us
  4. funny how one of the best goaltenders on the planet ... oh never mind
  5. got 2 players in first round. really - drafting is a complete crap shoot. you've got entire teams of experienced hockey people selecting what they think are the best players available. sometimes they miss a player and you get detroit-gems from the late rounds. sometimes they are dead-on. but it is a total crap shoot, you get lucky. period. it's kind of like playing the stock market: you would do better to go with the index. don't bother thinking you know anything, cause you are just deceiving yourself. you know jack. nobody knows anything but jack. take your picks with the index and you'd probably be right the same or better % of the time. detroit got a good string of luck, but it has run out lately it seems? btw, that is why I don't like the canucks gms consistently thinking they know which kid they want, etc etc, even picking them above where they are on the index. and then selling one who "they" have higher up as falling to them, etc. for moneyball players they don't agree with central scouting very much but maybe that is good, time will tell if they got lucky. so we have 2 picks in first round this year, 4 picks in the last 3 years. got a chance each will work out, might be a star in there, might now. do the percentages, that will tell you more than anything else. but imho, trading a star goalie for a player who is slated to be a mid first-rounder... is not well thought out. desperation. so this horvat kid has way too many expectations on him, and if the team doesn't do what's right and develop him slowly, it is going to end poorly. if they care about what the media thinks - and evidence says they do - this kid is in for a roller coaster of a ride, hopefully he is in one piece a few years from now playing well in the bigs.
  6. Isn't a bunch of player movement what this team needs? The players that tune out their coach cause it isn't what they want to hear are the same ones who have been enjoying the country club atmosphere and not getting ready for playoff games.... so GOOD! I don't think it is going to be the Keenan era over again - Torts isn't going to be GM for one. Totally over-reacting here, just chill out. One benefit is we might get some actual accountability again. Players that don't play well won't play as much, and that can be nothing but good imho. Is it risky? Sure, but let's see how the dice fall before getting all negative. Why not be positive and see what happens first, and let reality dictate your negativity instead of your own ... well I better not get into that - we're all the same at the root node, we all live in glass houses Friday night, enjoy the evening!
  7. garrison will hold up better than salo in the playoffs. as long as he finds his game and is good defensively, it's all blah blah blah fun though...
  8. /disagree His first strength is his defensive ability. And his second strength is offensive potential. That is why he got the 4.6m. A year from now he will probably be on pace for 10 goals or so per season, in this more offensive-oriented team (than Florida). Well, as long as we do trend that way, we aren't scoring tons right now... Anyways, middle-tier players don't have an impact right away, they usually take time to fit in, especially on defence - a more difficult position to fit on a new team. If he was a Pronger, then his impact would be right away, cause those kind of players dominate. He is not that kind of player, he needs to fit into the "team" before you see him shine. He is not good enough to dominate. What part of that don't people understand?
  9. hard to convince anyone of anything isn't it...
  10. and anyways, he is a defensive specialist... not a scorer.
  11. So. Really... Is this kid ready? He is the last top draft pick where the Canucks were looking at speed and skill without size. Can he play? Does he deserve 20 games (remember mason Raymond was supposed to be "given a chance" when Mg took over.... Is this kid at the same dev level and skill?)? Or can he play but AV might give him the cody treatment?
  12. Total bs thread. Get your heads out of your ass if you think Burrows isn't a top 6 player. Another team would love to pay him 3-4 mil. 20-30 + goals every year. Defensively responsible. Gritty enough. Scoring touch. Take any decent winger and put them with plumbers to play - that is the argument on this thread. No, He isn't the second coming of Christ.... Give it up!!!!
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