theminister Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Classy... I bet you'd like Kassian to throw career ending injuries on Keith and Marchand too? Stay Classy, Canucks fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.DirtyDangles Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Classy... I bet you'd like Kassian to throw career ending injuries on Keith and Marchand too? Stay Classy, Canucks fans. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
мeтpо Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I am soooo sick of this useless phrase. Hockey is a savage sport played by savage modern day warriors. This soft, weak ass, watered down league we have now where utter wastes of skin like Avery(in the past) Marchand, Kieth, Carcillo, Cooke can run around without the fear of justice. There really is not a whole lot of class needed or wanted out there on the ice. If guys are targeted it is for a reason. I am not justifying that guys comments on Hodgson but seriously comments like yours do nothing for the thread or the forum. What are you part of the NHL and it's disciplinary team ? Pff please get over yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Such a sad thread. Honestly, that trade was horrible and this is the only fuel you have to power the engine of denial. Wow that came out great, kinda proud of myself there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Junkyard Dog Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 So you're saying players deserve to get their careers ended because you don't like them? You must be a Don Cherry fan. Disgusting mindset of some Canucks fans.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.DirtyDangles Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 So you're saying players deserve to get their careers ended because you don't like them? You must be a Don Cherry fan. Disgusting mindset of some Canucks fans.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
мeтpо Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 LMAO you are hilarious. your lack of knowledge of how this game is played is brutally obvious. Where did I say I wanted players careers to be ended ? It is players like those I mentioned that try to end players career or are you completely blind when watching a game ? They need to be policed on the ice or tossed out of the league to send a message that kind of play will not go unpunished. Your assumptions about every post are so far from the point I truly question your level of reading and comprehension. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.DirtyDangles Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 You're funny, Red Wings fan. You wanted Kassian to "lay out" (meaning knock out) Hodgson for being a "primadonna". Classless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theminister Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Guys, I'm convinced metpo is either a troll, an opposition teams fan or is new to the game. He has over 400 posts in a few weeks and almost all of them take an inflammatory/oppositional stance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.DirtyDangles Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Guys, I'm convinced metpo is either a troll, an opposition teams fan or is new to the game. He has over 400 posts in a few weeks and almost all of them take an inflammatory/oppositional stance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Industrious1 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Meh...most of these conversations in the off-season need to be taken with a grain of salt anyways. Half of the threads turn into a battle ground between the over-enthused and the underwhelmed over how next season is going to play out (especially line up threads lol)...and a good portion of the topics never get back on track So I will try to stay on topic....Although I admire the offensive abilities of Hodgson, at this point I'm happy that Vancouver has a player with the potential of Mr. Kassian that also appears to be a character guy and is much less maintenance than Cody was. The last thing the Canucks needed after this Luongo/Schneider debaucle was a major contract fiasco to further demoralize our fanbase. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xbox Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Don't worry, Dad to the rescue! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caboose Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 utter wastes of skin like Kieth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.DirtyDangles Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 If a two time Stanley Cup Champion and Olympic gold medalist is an utter waste of skin what does that make you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hudson bay rules Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Here comes the immature "Hodgson is an idiot" comments... Stop being butthurt about this and leave the kid alone. Great hockey player who doesn't want to be lowballed by Buffalo. Good for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lock Posted August 11, 2013 Share Posted August 11, 2013 To be honest, I was wondering how Hodgson was going to fit on the Canucks before he was even traded. I never really felt it to be a shocking trade at all. I liked the trade. Even if Hodgson proves to be a better player, Kassian still has a better chance at making an impact on this team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BedBeats™2.0 Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Winter is a total dink. None of you ever read the BS he pulled with Slats when he was aggressively trying to get his client at the time, Grant Fuhr, re-signed?? Fuhr and his agent, Rich Winter, made headlines during the summer of 1989 because of a protracted and bizarre dispute with Edmonton general manager Glen Sather. Winter and Sather had long disliked each other, dating back to Fuhr's 1987 contract negotiations in which the two engaged in a shoving match. By 1989, Winter was accusing the Oilers of cheating their players by trading Wayne Gretzky so that none of them could earn their projected bonus money for the 1988-89 season (i.e. the team would be unable to win the Stanley Cup without Gretzky). Winter and Sather were already arguing over the contract for another Winter client, Esa Tikkanen, when Winter announced that Fuhr was considering retirement if the NHL and Oilers did not agree to a special waiver of the league's rules on licensing rights. Winter had cut a reported five-year deal with the Pepsi-Cola Company that called for Fuhr to wear the Pepsi logo on his pads, beginning in the 1989-90 season. The NHL strictly prohibited players from selling advertising space on their equipment. Winter told the Oilers that Fuhr would retire if he was not allowed to wear the Pepsi logo. On June 8, 1989, Fuhr presented signed retirement papers to Sather, which, if filed with the NHL, would rule Fuhr out of the 1989-90 season. Convinced the retirement was nothing more than a negotiating ploy -- because Fuhr had asked the papers be held in trust until further notice -- Sather waited until training camp to see if Fuhr was really serious about quitting hockey. Event though five year's remained on Fuhr's contract, Fuhr and Winter vowed that Fuhr would not report to training camp unless he could wear the Pepsi logo. The goalie said he would rather sell cars at an Edmonton-area dealership than play under licensing restrictions. Fuhr claimed that he was trying to win a victory for players' rights, but others were sure that Winter had orchestrated everything to force a renegotiation of Fuhr's long-term contract in exchange for which Winter would drop the logo request. This was the same contract Winter had begrudgingly advised his client to sign two years earlier. When signed, the deal was thought to be worth $500,000 per year, but turned out to be worth closer to $400,000 per year. There was also speculation that Winter hoped to force a trade to Detroit, which was willing to pay Fuhr more than he was earning in Edmonton. Fed up with Winter, Sather cut off his Fuhr talks with the agent, making Fuhr's status for 1989-90 even more uncertain. As media criticism of Winter mounted, and as he acknowledged he really didn't want to retire, Fuhr shifted his legal work to Edmonton attorney Ramon McKall in an effort to get out of his Oilers contract. The situation was finally resolved in a two-hour meeting between Fuhr and Sather on Aug. 24, 1989. Following that meeting, Fuhr announced he was not going to retire and would report to Edmonton's training camp as scheduled. He had no trouble walking away from the Pepsi deal, either, and said he was surprised to find out that the NHL, rather than the Oilers, was responsible for his not being allowed to put the logo on his pads. Winter still argued that the NHL did not have the right to ban the Pepsi pads, but his client had already lost interest in the arrangement. Some years later, Fuhr would drop Winter as his agent, saying he was uncomfortable with Winter's negotiating tactics Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lock Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Winter is a total dink. None of you ever read the BS he pulled with Slats when he was aggressively trying to get his client at the time, Grant Fuhr, re-signed?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BedBeats™2.0 Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 Why does this man even still have clients? Complete sleeze. You'd think he'd have a bad enough reputation to the point where he has no clients. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Lock Posted August 12, 2013 Share Posted August 12, 2013 It would make sense that some players simply focus on hockey and don't focus on anything else. I wouldn't be surprised if Winters approached him and offered to be his agent. A simple "yes" without research would have made it happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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