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  1. Jannick Hansen said the same thing in an intervew on Friday as well
  2. Miller has all the leverage because he's the leading scorer. Benning would lose a lot of cred if he moved him. Also, Green would lose cred if he cut his ice time. He also loses cred if he admits to his GM that he is having a hard time with a player and may be losing the room
  3. I can tell you're a bit of a Miller fan. I think he's a bit of a prima donna and a showboat. All the F-bombs and door slamming during games tells me it's more about him and less about the team. He can be a great player in the right situation clearly but since the playoff success in the bubble the Canucks have lost most of their leadership group: Marky, Tanev, Edler, Stecher, and Sutter. It's not the same team any more. The whole situation is really frustrating. I wasn't meaning to criticize you in particular or single you out. I don't know what they need to do. Firing the coach may shake things up and it may work out. I still don't think they have the depth. The players still have to play. No coach can get out there and do it for them. So in that respect Hirsch is right. Turing over half the team in 1 year doesn't help with team identity either. I guess it's really a combination of GM, Coach and players.
  4. Hirsch knows that he's sticking his neck out by speaking up. He's an emotional guy and he's Canuck alumni. Like he says, it hurts him to see this happening to the Canucks so he spoke out, and he really hesitated going there but he couldn't help himself. And to all of you who think you know better than Hirsch and slag his credibility because he was only a back up goalie and not a very good colour guy. He is a great interview because he calls it like he see's it. You don't get the candy coated group speak that you get from 99% of the media who are afraid to step on toes from Hirsch. To the people who never saw the inside of a pro sports locker room who think they know how things work.....You don't. Green has to work with what he has. If he goes to Benning and says look Jim, I think that I'm losing the room here and it's because Miller is poisoning the water..... Then Benning goes, hmmm..... my job may be on the line here too. I know the only way to fix this but the top guys have been slumping and the coach is asking me to trade the leading scorer..... is he doing it? Nope. It's the same reason why Green can't bench Miller. He's damned if he does and he's damned if he doesn't. If the players believe that the coach is not good, they can get him fired. It has happened many times before. And it can start with 1 guy. FWIW, it's pretty hard to hire an experienced coach if it gets around that there is a coach killer in the room.
  5. The Hirsch interview seems to have disappeared into the ether. That's 650 for ya
  6. Ya, and there were 3 guys between Horvat and McNabb. This line of criticism is baseless
  7. I'm thinking that Poolman was a little choked that he was checked late and with a stick near his face. His action was worse but he's the one with the major and the 2 games. The suspension is a little rich imo
  8. You know that Linden hired Benning. Linden was his boss. Linden was President. Benning GM. That's the way it's supposed to work but this is hockey. So there's that. There was talk that Benning went directly to ownership with his plan which was more in line with what ownership wanted than what Linden had proposed. Ownership loved it and Linden resigned. To back track, Linden was interviewing GM's and others around the league as to strategies to rebuild the team. He was reportedly more in line with the Winnipeg model. Benning promised something faster. So what happened to the faster plan since the summer of 2018 when Linden left? 2016-17 BOTTOM with 69 points in 82 games 2017-18, 73 points, Boeser as a rookie was the top goal getter with 29 and was the all star rep, tied Daniel with 55. Sedin's retire and Linden resigns. 2018-19, 81 points in 82 games, Petey's rookie year and leads in scoring with 66 points, Horvat 61, Boeser 56 coming off scary back injury in rookie year 2019-20, 78 points in 69 games in the covid shortened season. Playoffs - lost in 7 to Vegas in 2nd round. Top 5 pp. Miller 72, Petey 66, Horvat 53, Hughes (r) 53, Pearson 45, Boeser 45 2020-21, 50 points in 56 games. Bad year with early slump and the team was slammed by covid. Petey hurt for much of the year. Boeser 49, Miller 46, Hughes 41, Horvat 39, Hoglander (r) 37, EP 21, Myers 21, Pearson 18 2021-22, 12 points in 16 games. Top line slumping, special teams struggle Miller 16, Hughes 12, Garland 11, Horvat 10, EP 9, Boeser 8, Hoglander 5, Pearson 5 We endured Drance slagging Benning for mismanaging the team in an appalling way these past 2 seasons but is he right? Is it Benning or is it ownership not wanting to spend money when there is no income from the gate and they're trying to survive on tv revenue alone? Look, it's hard to tell when the team is close to turning the corner and it's time to leave them alone and let things unfold. Also, last year, Benning tried hard to land OEL but it just didn't pan out and he settled for Schmidt but he only gave up a 3rd round pick. I don't understand why Schmidt had to go necessarily. Sure, he didn't adjust that well but circumstance around the team wasn't great. Everybody had a bad year. Does that mean that they needed to move on from Schmidt? Maybe there was more to the story than we knew. This past offseason, Benning pulled off a very good looking deal, bringing in OEL and Garland and shedding a lot of wasted cap at the same time. He also added a lot of bottom 6 players, many of whom, didn't make the team in the end. So we all think that there must be great improvements in the team yet they slump anyway. Are they rotten to the core, or are the changes just taking a long time to manifest themselves? I'm pretty sure that Aquilini won't pull the plug until the mid season reviews at least. In the meantime, here's hoping that we can turn this season around
  9. I'm just waiting for that weasel Kadri to start taking cheap shots now that his team has a big lead
  10. You're right. A lot of what goes on behind closed doors is not leaked to the media in sports or business or politics for that matter. However, there is news reporting which deals in facts and there is editorial reporting which is based in fact of course, but a lot of it is opinion, educated guesses and conjecture. We must try to keep these 2 approaches in mind when consuming the media because often times, editorializing turns out to be flat out wrong. Other times it is pretty close to the truth. I think that the majority of sports media are not trained journalists these days and are not having to pass their stories past an editorial desk like they used to. Editors would not pass a story that was too much speculation because the reputation of the news paper was at stake. Media types are leaving newspapers and are entering the realm of the internet where there are no rules. Much of modern media is click bait and many celebrity bloggers know little more than fans on CDC. It's a lot to generalize about and most of us have some members of the media that we trust and like and others that we prefer to ignore. There have been big changes in the last 5-10 years.
  11. Do we really have to continue flogging the vaxx issue? It is a moot argument because Hamonic has had the jab. The Canucks have rules wrt vaccinations. Everybody with the club from top to bottom must be vaccinated. There are practical reasons like international travel as well as health reasons. We know that the Canucks had maybe the worst bout with Covid of any NHL team last season. But that's the Canucks choice. Hamonic couldn't be with the team until he had the jab. He agreed and got his first shot, then he joined the team. He still could not travel the the US until 2 weeks after he had his 2nd shot. This is why he's missing this 3 game road trip. I-Mac said this much in his tweet from November 1. He did not say anything about missing further road trips so I assume this means that Hamonic will be in Pittsburgh on Nov 24. He misses 3 games total. Rathbone has been called up for these 3 games and I expect that he'll be back in Abbotsford at the end of the trip. Hamonic is in Abby because he needs to play and continue to progress to mid season form. So ya, getting the vaccination is, and should be a personal choice. But at the same time, many organizations are demanding that their employees are vaccinated which is also their right and the Canucks have good reasons for this.
  12. Follow the bouncing ball Alf. Hamonic has had his first shot before he joined the Canucks. 2 weeks after he gets his 2nd shot, he'll be able to travel to the US. I-Mac has referred to a mid-November road trip that he will be unable to take. That is the upcoming trip. The trip to Pittsburgh etc for the game on Nov 24 is at month end so presumably, he'll be good to go on that. He misses 3 games. I am inferring here so it's possible that I'm wrong
  13. They aren't crooked but they have this culture of game management that has been going on for ever. The 60's at least
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