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  1. The only similarity is losing. The Rangers are losing due to puck luck. They outplayed LA the first two games and the start of the third game. The Rangers are relatively healthy while the Canucks in the finals were beat to crap. What the hell is a coach supposed to "adjust" to make up for six of his top nine forwards out or playing injured and five of his d-men out or playing injured? The only hope we had in those finals was Lou playing like a Vezina winning goalie every game. He did in 3 games and wasn't close in the other 4. I still believe that if we were just relatively healthy in that final we would have won. No amount of coaching can compensate for that number of injuries when the opposing goalie is playing like a Vezina winner in every game.
  2. Schroeder was 45.9% on faceoffs this season. Keslers rookie season (28 games played) he was 40.2% and his first full 82 game season he was 46.8%. Henriks rookie season (82 games) he was 44.1% on faceoffs. So really Schroeders faceoff percentage isn't really anything to be concerned about at this point.
  3. The difference is when Grabner had his 11 points in 22 games he played on the second line. The reason he was dealt was he was waiver eligible, our entire top six had a career year, and he never once showed up to camp in game shape ready to compete. A problem he's continued to have. While Schroeder played primarily on our fourth line this past season and half his games the season the season prior he was playing with a shoulder injury on the third and fourth line. Certainly not the same opportunity Grabner had in his 22 games. Btw, Grabners hat trick came against superstar goalie Curtis McElhinney. Unlike you I'd be very surprised if Schroeder wasn't claimed off waivers. A bottom feeder has nothing to lose claiming a talented young guy for free and giving him a shot just as a desperate bottom feeder claimed "I take the summer off" Grabner.
  4. Ummmm.... Brad Marchand 5'9" 183 lbs. The only real significant differences are Schroeder isn't the weasel Marchand is and he hasn't been given the same opportunity. You're unlikely to prove your skill playing fourth line. This thread seems to be a mix of extremes. He's a bust or he's the next great one. He's neither. He's a question mark that hasn't had any real opportunity to prove himself. Until he gets that opportunity he can't be called a quality top six or a bust.
  5. Yet the past statistics show otherwise. Other than his partial rookie season, where he scored 1 goal on 10 shots, Edler has a career high scoring percentage of 7.1%. The only time he's been above 7% since that partial season. The fact that Garrison has seasons at 8.3%, 8.5% and 9.5% would indicate he actually has the more accurate shot. Edlers career shooting percentage is 5.4% to Garrisons 6.5% but you're certainly welcome to believe what you want. Edler should be better at reading off the Sedins as he's had years of playing behind them while Garrison has had rather limited time behind them. Given the way Edler has played the past two seasons he may be the one better suited to the 2nd pp unit where he's less likely to get burned on a bad pinch and has the oppositions 2nd unit defending against his shot.
  6. And yet his "pathetic" scoring percentage was tied with Edler as best among our top four. With Bieksa at 2.4% and Hamhuis at 3.3%. All four about half or less than their shooting percentage the previous season under AV with Garrison leading the top four with 8.5%. He also has previous seasons at 8.3% and 9.5%. Ehrhoff has only been above 7% twice in his career and has never hit 8% or higher. But I was actually talking about hitting the net, not putting in the net, which what so many have been complaining about regarding Garrison. Btw, Ehrhoff's shooting was 3.7% this season. Is that good?
  7. So true. I first checked Garrisons percentage of shots on net by comparing to Ehrhoff when somebody said how much he's missed here because he "always" got the puck on net. Ehrhoff hit the net slightly less often than Garrison this past season. What was truly surprising was that Garrison hit the net more frequently this past season than Ehrhoff did in the 10/11 season when we led the league in scoring and had the best pp.
  8. NHL.com doesn't have the shots broken down to situation, just the total shots and total missed shots. But I thought I'd check Doughty out and on 274 shots he hit the net 64.6% of the time. Karlson, the best offensive d-man in the league, took 383 shots with 67.1% on net. I'll say it again, Garrison missing the net too much is rather overblown here.
  9. Garrison missing the net is rather overblown here. The percentage of shots on net by our top 4 d-men... Bieksa 72.9% (229 shots taken) Edler 72.3% (246 shots taken) Hamhuis 72.1% (208 shots taken) Garrison 69.6% (260 shots taken) To put that in perspective Edler hit the net roughly 5 times more than Garrison per 200 shots taken.
  10. St Louis went undrafted. At 22 the Sens offered St Louis a tryout and released him. He went to play in the IHL for Cleveland. After struggling with the Flames, at 25 the they bought out the final year of his contract making him a UFA. His breakout season came in 02-03 with 70 points at age 27 for Tampa. Some players take longer than others. St Louis is a prime example of giving up too soon and a poor one for you to use in this case.
  11. If he was he'd be making close to double what he currently is.
  12. Who ever said the players coached themselves?
  13. He suffered a concussion in January and still wasn't cleared to workout in July and wasn't cleared for contact in August. I'd call that pretty serious. Gillis said he was still interested in signing him but not until he showed he could take full contact. LA signed him before he was cleared. They took a big chance and it paid off for them.
  14. Winner of the longest fart on cdc. Just keep blowing it out your.....
  15. I don't buy that at all. He's given far more credit than he deserves for Sedin success. His first season here was also Burrows first full season on the Sedins wing. I think Burr's 35 goals & 32 assists had a greater effect on the Sedins numbers than replacing Salo with Ehrhoff. Also the Sedins increased pp numbers in 10/11 coincides with moving Kesler to the first pp unit. In 09/10 the Sedins combined for 48 pp points with Ehrhoff on their point. The only change to the pp in 10/11 when they combined for 77 pp points was Kesler.
  16. Most here are, and always will be, what have you done for me lately fans. I've never seen so many so quick to turn on their own players. It's pretty sad.
  17. Personally I think tas is really hoping Kesler is moved and is thus simply believing what he wants regarding Keslers honesty about the city.
  18. I agree regarding the fans. I'm not so sure any players actually love the fans. Not so much regarding the city though. Although a player is unlikely to slag the city while still there, if he didn't like the city he would be unlikely to stick around for a decade or more. But still, you can't say what the player says doesn't represent his true feelings either. Do you know Kesler personally and what his opinion is away from the general public? I'll guess not. Therefore you can't make any assumptions about his honesty regarding the city. It really isn't the same a band passing through town.
  19. The Canucks just have a heaping helping of them.
  20. For some location is more important than money or even an improved shot at the cup. Lacking the proverbial crystal ball you can't really say it would be impossible for him to win a cup playing here. You could have said the same about Mitchell signing in LA. What a waste of time for his career. They backed their way in to the playoffs and were rather unexpected winners. You never know what will happen down the road and Kesler still has years of playing time ahead of him. In the end it will be his decision alone to stay or go based solely on what he sees as best for himself and his family.
  21. Which at that age a quite an advantage in junior over an 18 year old. It's an extra two years of physical and mental maturity while playing against kids as young as 16.
  22. A rock band that appears in a city once a year is not quite the same as a hockey player that lives 9 to 10 months in one city for a decade with his wife (sometimes a local girl) and their kids now is it. I'd have to give the hockey players honest opinion of the city far, far more weight than a band just passing through.
  23. Torts ain't no saint..... On Dec. 20, 2011, coach John Tortorella’s New York Rangers visited their rivals the New Jersey Devils at Prudential Center in Newark for the first time that season. It was a key division game, and one that would set the tone for the rest of their season series. The Rangers, as the road team, would determine the personnel on the opening faceoff. In their previous two road games, New York started No. 1 center Brad Richards’ line for the opening draw. In this game, Tortorella opted for a different look: Fourth liners Mike Rupp, Ruslan Fedotenko and Brandon Prust. Devils Coach Pete DeBoer responded in kind: Rather than throwing Zach Parise to the lions, like Randy Carlyle did when he lined Phil Kessel up next to John Scott this season, DeBoer skated out Cam Janssen, Eric Boulton and Tim Sestito. The result? Comedic mayhem. What might have been a line brawl to begin the game was instead Rupp vs. Janssen. David Clarkson and Brandon Dubinsky would have another fight 1:44 later. Whatever spark Tortorella was searching for, it appeared to work: The Rangers won the game, 4-1. Fast forward three months, and the Rangers and Devils met again at Madison Square Garden. This time it was DeBoer that sent out the goons: Eric Boulton, Ryan Carter and Cam Janssen. Tortorella was forced to send out Brandon Prust, Brandon Dubinsky and Mike Rupp. Dubinsky was recovering from sinus damage, so defenseman Stu Bickel took the opening draw, knowing what was bound to happen. Tortorella loudly scolded DeBoer from the Rangers’ bench, pointing and hurling F-bombs at the opposing coach … for doing exactly what he had done in Jersey months earlier. “I guess in John’s world you can come into our building and start your tough guys, but we can’t do the same in here,” DeBoer said. “He’s either got short-term memory loss or he’s a hypocrite. So it’s one of the other.” Said Janssen, via Fire & Ice: “If they didn’t want to do it and didn’t think it was necessary, then they wouldn’t have done it. It takes two guys to fight and we both agreed upon and we both obviously thought it was necessary and that’s why we did it." Tortorella’s response when asked about the line brawl: It was “none of my business” who the Devils started in the game. When asked about the Canucks/Flames line brawl on Saturday night, Tortorella said: "I thought my players responded tremendously," said Tortorella. "Listen - it shouldn't be in the game, that stuff. I don't want it in the game. But I have to protect my team, too. So all the pundits, all the people pissing and moaning, they don't have a clue what a locker-room's about. They don't understand the whole circumstance involved in that type of situation." But Tortorella does. Because he’s used the tactic himself, and he’s been the victim of it. When he’s dishing out the medicine, it’s part of the game. When he’s tasting it, it shouldn’t be in the game. And when he’s tasting it courtesy of a coach he has little respect for, it makes him completely snap. https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/puck-daddy/john-tortorella-awkward-history-faceoff-fights-bob-hartley-211638086--nhl.html Torts can dish it out but he clearly can't take it. Hartley played him for the hotheaded fool he is.
  24. I supplied the available factual stats. You supply opinion without evidence. So if that's you're argument YOU prove it. That aside my response was regarding the ability to HIT the net. Opinion says Ehrhoff was better than Garrison. Facts say otherwise.
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