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  1. The Bellator event will be rebroadcast at 10:30 tonight for anyone interested that can stay up until around 12:30 tonight.
  2. I hope a few of you managed to catch tonight's Bellator event on Spike tv tonight. Was easily the best mma event in months, maybe years. Buried anything that UFC has offered up lately. I'll try to post links to some of the fights as they appear around the net. Anyone not following the weekly Bellator tournaments Thursday nights isn't a real fight fan.
  3. Tiny Tim Rauscheder accepts the Taco Bell Big Box challenge!
  4. Pretty good Bellator event on Spike again tonight. Nova Uniao team mates Eduardo Dantas and Marcos Galvao had to fight each other for the 135 pound belt. Nice knockout win for Dantas. Last Thursday's Bellator event was even better with some spectacular KO's and subs. It's a shame more people aren't tuning in to what is a world class live mma event on basic cable (Spike TV) every Thursday night.
  5. What am I listening to? Why, I'm listening to the African bongoist Chaino all night long!
  6. Everybody seems to think Arniel has been a complete disaster down there. I'm kind of surprised but hey, maybe it's gonna be one and done for him after this season.
  7. In fairness, I'd like to wait until Ebbett is back with the Wolves and it's genuine AHL competition we`re looking at for a reasonable stretch of games instead of hybrid lockout roster comp before we put the hit out on Arniel. The guy gets nothing but crap around here and I get kinda sick of it after a while. Multiple factors are contributing to the Wolves shaky season, injuries, increased lockout level of competition, and yes coaching changes. Also, the Canucks will cast the only vote that counts on the Wolves merits as a development franchise for their prospects when they renew or move on to a new AHL affiliation next year. I`m all for a change myself!
  8. Interesting. Thanks for sharing your insight here DJ. I'll now consider that coaching may just be a significant factor in all this. I'm still inclined to wish for a change in affiliates next year though. The Atlanta fans and beat writer were so scathing in their assessment of the Wolves org toward the end that it's just hard not to think that there must be something to it. Granted, the Canucks do have a paucity of good talent to work with at the minor pro level.
  9. 1)You make the unfounded assumption here that I agree that last year was a stellar year in player development for the Canucks. More like adequate imo. This years club is simply not as competitive in the lockout AHL, which needs to factored into any comparisons with last years team. 2)A team that truly controlled the destiny of it's AHL prospects, like, say, Calgary, would have Polasek playing in it's top six. not Hunt or Matheson. It would be Polasek And Sauve And Andersson not either/or Also, not every team benefited to the same extent from the lockout. The whole competitive balance of the AHL was tilted on it's ear with the Wolves being one of the teams that arguably benefited the least from young NHL talent. It's hard for me to condemn the performance of Arniel, three years removed from coach of the year honors in this landscape. 3) You may be right on this one. I personally thought he should have waited until this year to come over from Europe ala Jacob Silfverberg. The Canucks may have blown this one by rushing a project player.
  10. Meanwhile, why don't we all enjoy another video???!!!
  11. Okay so you watch all them games. I already new that about you. But where are the logical fallacies in my posts. I want to see them. If you please?
  12. Lol, give it two seconds will ya. That was my attempt at humor.
  13. My hunch is informed by the idea that the lockout completely turned the competitive balance of power on it's ear and made the Wolves a less competitive team than they would have been in a normal AHL season. it just isn't the same league with all of those young NHLers around; you want to pin the consequences of this on the shoulders of Scott Arniel. Where was all this anti-Arniel sentiment during the four year tenure in Winnipeg with the Moose anyway. Are you seriously trying to tell me thay he has forgotten how to coach/develop young players in two short years? .
  14. First of all, I'm more than willing to concede that Craig MacTavish is a better coach than Scott Arniel. In fact, I was hoping MacTavish would eventually inherit the head coaching job here in Vancouver. When we assess the performance of the Wolves team this season, I think it's important to recognize the impact the lockout has had on the rosters around the AHL, it isn't really the AHL anymore when the Oklahoma City Barons are icing the entire Edmonton Oilers first line and four-fifths of their first pp unit. I think the lockout portion of the AHL season has been so atypical of an AHL season that it needs to be thrown out when trying to assess performance of the true AHL teams. The Wolves didn't benefit in nearly the same way by the inclusion of quality young NHLers on ELCs as many other teams did. Let's wait and have a look at these teams performance with their true rosters over the second half before we make our final judgement. My hunch is based mainly on the litany of complaints over the years I have read from disgruntled Atlanta Thrashers fans on other hockey boards like HF about the lack of development of Thrashers prospects during their long association with the Wolves. The demotion of Adam Polasek to the ECHL and the stagnation of Anton Rodin are major red flags. Really all Canucks affiliated personnel seem to be underachieving this year. You may be right. It may all be on Scott Arniel. Maybe he forgot how to coach during his tenure with the Blue Jackets. We'll see.
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