Jump to content
The Official Site of the Vancouver Canucks
Enter Search Term. Use arrows to navigate between autocomplete results. If no results appear, use Enter to do a full site search.
Forum Closure ×
Canucks Community
Forum Closure

Edler switching gears - knee on knee on Staal at the World's

Socrates

By Socrates
in Canucks Talk

Recommended Posts

VanIsleNuckFan Canucks Prospect

VanIsleNuckFan

Posted
Posted

Are you serious? Surely you don't mean to the extent of injuring someone and taking them out to win, that's just cheap.

You do realize it goes both ways right? How pissed would you be if every time we played someone they took out one of our star players.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
nuck nit Canucks First-Line

nuck nit

Posted
Posted

Pu$$y name..... Pu$$y ideals...

For once can everyone stop giving too craps about how other people "view" this team... I for one could care less how dirty, in the trenches, and messy the team is... It's our team, and we need to do "whatever it takes" to win! It's hockey... This is the way it's always been and should continue to be.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Bananas Canucks Regular

Bananas

Posted
Posted

All the Edler lovers hide after his brutal show in the play-offs, and like clockwork the cavalry rides in to the front line when he does something blatantly stupid.

If Edler was trying to check him, his stick would be near the ice and near the puck. Not on the complete opposite side of the body.

If Edler was trying to hit him open ice, he'd have done it like we all know he can.

Instead, Edler skated by, completely oblivious to the play at hand.

His intention moving into the play could have been anything, but he made no attempt to make a hockey play, nor did he attempt to avoid contact when he knew it was coming.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
VanIsleNuckFan Canucks Prospect

VanIsleNuckFan

Posted
Posted

No.

Forty years ago padding and skates and all equipment was not gladiator -like it is today.

Nobody wore a helmet and the slap shot was just being rolled out by Hull and the boys.

Nobody worked out,guys smoked and drank in the dressing rooms before ,during and after games.

Smaller players with skills could play and the NHL game had very few teams so the game was much higher skilled.

This game now is played at high velocity with monsters on skates in gladiator gear that are pumped up with drugs and every available option they can administer to themselves.

Edler is a clean player without a history of being a jerk.

This game today is nothing like it was in days gone by.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
Dragonfruits Canucks Star

Dragonfruits

Posted
Posted

All the Edler lovers hide after his brutal show in the play-offs, and like clockwork the cavalry rides in to the front line when he does something blatantly stupid.

If Edler was trying to check him, his stick would be near the ice and near the puck. Not on the complete opposite side of the body.

If Edler was trying to hit him open ice, he'd have done it like we all know he can.

Instead, Edler skated by, completely oblivious to the play at hand.

His intention moving into the play could have been anything, but he made no attempt to make a hockey play, nor did he attempt to avoid contact when he knew it was coming.

Link to comment
Share on other sites
nuck nit Canucks First-Line

nuck nit

Posted
Posted

I'm tired of everyone getting squeamish at this sort of thing... crap happens and people get hurt... It should bear no reflection on the judgement of a player personally..

Yes players are different now, but there was even more bullying in the past, ie: not that many small players made it.. There are way more small players now that are succeeding, name more than just Henri Richard pre 1975...

I agree, the padding stinks, they should go back to leathers or contract a sports company like Nike or Reebok to create synthetic leather like pads for the players, so they are not weapons...

That being said, most dudes are squeamish little pu$$ies these days, and it's bloody laughable! If I feel like a comment reflects this hilarious attitude, I'm calling them out for it...

Link to comment
Share on other sites
nuck nit Canucks First-Line

nuck nit

Posted
Posted

Is that your reply?? I'm out to lunch? So just cause you played some hockey before I was born I can't study the subject? "I'm older, I win at conversation"... Well... good point I guess, go have another warm beer for me..

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

Go to topic listing

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...