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  1. My name is a joke because I had a source that was wrong at trade deadline. samjam99 is a different guy.
  2. Dude, stop assuming. You talk like Horvat playing on the Canucks would be an all or nothing affair. He's not our only prospect and we only have so many roster spots. I expect Horvat will get a couple of games after his season with the Knights. Other prospects will do the same and we'll have something of a revolving door. Not quite. I thought he'd be stuck under Christian Thomas again and didn't realize Thomas was born in 92 not 93.
  3. Amusing lecture when it never occurred to you that Horvat could play a few games at the tail end of the season after the OHL playoffs. Or that Jensen would still feel the effects of a lockout shoving everyone down a league with Juniors being flooded just like the AHL and ECHL. Yup, your frantic leaping to conclusions when there is a perfectly reasonable answer is sure making me look bad. Not bright kid. Just like your Horvat predictions.
  4. Forget quoting you on it, I want to see you make a youtube video saying you're a retard and know nothing about junior hockey if you're wrong. Up the stakes and we'll see if you stand behind an assertion as dumb as that one. World Juniors, another go of the Memorial Cup on a dominant team, a chance to prove he has more offense than he's been given credit for and possibly as the captain of the Knights. It's never happening that he makes our roster. He might get a few call ups to supplement all that Junior success and give him new goals. Jensen's choice to go oversees was to do with not getting buried on a roster because of how many NHLers were stuck in the AHL.
  5. I'd rather not. As Plum mentioned, Nichushkin has one move which requires playing on international ice. That would be fine except his other tendencies also lend him to international play as well. There's raw potential and a hell of a lot of "disinterested Russianness" in his play. He's ultra high-risk and high-reward, while Horvat is low-risk, high-reward. Gilman used the words "Potential Captain" about Bo for an idea of just how impressed the Nucks are with him.
  6. Who cares that we're not on CBC? Shorty and Garrett >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Ball, Hrudey, whichever other Leafs yes-man commentates. TSN is fine by me too but when I have to watch CBC I regularly consider turning it off midway through. Play Detroit: Datsyuk boner. Play Minnesota: Brodin of all people gets complimented all night. Play the Flames, Baertschi's crap doesn't stink. Not interested.
  7. I assume you mean Playoff Performer since Domi is nowhere near as good defensively.
  8. That's why he'd be playing in Utica if not on the Nucks. The kid is 19 though, curb your enthusiasm.
  9. He plays on the perimeter and regularly fails to get by defenders even with the massive ice. I've watched him have this problem for a while. I'm not saying he can't adapt but when it comes to scoring goals, he does it by going around people not through them. He is remarkably weak on his stick meaning he can't pull off power moves. Quite small defenders who play the body on him might not knock him off his feet but he is almost guaranteed to lose possession when facing a physical opponent. In the AHL he is going to be in for quite a surprise. If he adapts, he's got speed, size and a shot. If not, he's not going to get far.
  10. Sutter sounds like he doesn't like Gaunce. Brendan was a beast that camp.
  11. You sure you meant to post that in this thread? Seems a bit out of place... And I'm pretty decent with Photoshop, just waiting a few weeks until I can change my name (can't do it too often).
  12. "Nobody knows" "You can't know for sure" Laughably indignant but nothing worth saying. "If I'm still typing I haven't been proven wrong, right?" "....Right guys?"
  13. Tanev has no negotiating power. Gillis knows it or would have signed him by now but instead they're not even talking to him. And you think Gillis might overpay. Cool story bro, the "well you can't ever know for sure" defense.
  14. Dat backpedal. He can't file for arbitration and must be released by the Canucks before he can sign elsewhere. This is a game of chicken where MG is in a train and Tanev is tied to the tracks.
  15. Are you high? He's the one laughing while Tanev's agent leaks these made-up rumours.
  16. Tanev's agent is just putting on the full dog and pony show before caving. As these "rumours" leak, the more inevitable Tanev's signing for a reasonable rate becomes. I give it 2 more weeks at this point.
  17. I think this is the point at which you have to accept that, while you have made all reasonable efforts to speak sense, wallstreetamigo's selective reading has taken over. Good luck getting him to acknowledge that his disagreement has been based on his misunderstandings.
  18. I can't speak for oldnews but I feel like you're on the cusp of being extremely insightful but keep falling into the trap of melodrama and trying to weave everything into a big "MG is a failure" narrative. If you just let that go, you would have a lot to say that I'd respect. You're both so close and yet so far from having interesting things to say that it consistently drives me nuts
  19. Haven't you heard? He loves Ballard. Ballard just "never got a chance". It just takes time for him to be won over by those overpaid plugs, preferrably when they've left the team and he can complain about how MG never should have let them go.
  20. Plus Nichushkin has one power move that only works on big ice. Horvat can force a turnover, turn on the jets and go. He gets such quality breakaways because no one can interfere with him most of the time.
  21. Thanks for this gem, Captain Conjecture. Where's your sidekick The Presumption Kid?
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