70seven Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Well, the fact that Burr had yet to score a goal, not an overwhelmingly significant loss to the team offensively. The depth takes a hit, but I figure we'll see Hansen or Kesler with the twins, while Booth or Santorelli move up into the top 6. kassian will likely draw back into the lineup and Richardson will likely get bumped back to the 3rd line. Just not a lineup thats going to get it done imo. My hope for this season is that they fall out of the playoff race and trade a couple core peices (Edler/Hansen/Higgins/Burrows/Booth/Luongo) for some solid young talent or picks, while opening up the cap space for one or two potential UFA's Vanek/Stastny/Moulson/Cammalleri/Callahan/Girardi/Mitchell/etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
combover Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 classless comments by lots nuck "fans". what have you done for me lately attitude by alot of children posting here. bur will be missed it sucks for him and the team and he leaves a HUGE whole in the top six. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex the Great Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 @imacVanSun: Canucks AGM Gilman said Burrows recovery time from broken jaw won't be known for 7-10 days." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SergioMomesso Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 PK depth will hurt. Means guys like Weisse and Booth will be killing penalties. It only works for so long before they get exposed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbdoubleu Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Burrows, obtenez bien bientôt. Je vais avoir un milk-shake pour vous Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOMapleLaughs Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Burr's agent Paul Corbiel confirmed that Alex had a successful surgery and expects him in the line-up around Christmas time (from @News1130Sports twitter) Jaw surgery isn't epic. Crosby came back just fine. However, this season has been a curse for Alex. Good luck when you come back, Frack! (From Frick 'n Frack.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pears Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 How much would Simon Gagne cost? I wouldn't think more than $1-$2 million. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangelos Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Apparently stupid doesn't have a bottom. The fact that you believe players haven't played through worse in the playoffs makes me question your intelligence. Stupid,stupid, stupid, stupid.... Don't quit your day job Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tangelos Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Are these some of the players now suing the NHL over life long concussion problems? Bergeron played through broken ribs and cartilage damage among other things..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cocanuck Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 By the way did you folks notice where San Jose got Couture and Hertl? In the draft. The best way to fix our forwards is scout properly. I couldn't agree more,,, Hope it changed a bit with this past draft,, we will see but the last 6 or 7 years have left quite a bit to be desired. Draft iether size and speed for grinding or ability to score regardless of size. No more tweeners that are average at both. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Doughty Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 The Vancouver Canucks will be without Alex Burrows for the long term, as the forward suffered a broken jaw during the team's 3-2 win over Carolina on Sunday. Burrows suffered the injury after getting hit in the jaw with a puck on a clearing attempt by teammate Chris Tanev. Burrows played out the rest of the game and even did post-game interviews in the dressing room after the final horn. According to Bob Marjanovich of Vancouver's TEAM 1040, Burrows requires surgery and is out of the lineup indefinitely. In 17 games this season, Burrows - who has also missed 12 games this season with a bruised foot - has three assists. Good pk and energy guy out of the lineup. Can be replaced. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashi Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Oh well, I wish him a speedy recovery. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 For crap's sake On the minimal upside: Burrows to LTIR = money for us to make a trade??? Well, it doesn't allow us to bank any cap space if that's what you're thinking. If he goes on LTI then we'd be allowed to exceed the cap in the meantime but we'd have to be right back to cap compliant once Burrows is healthy. Schroeder's still on LTI, yet we have $2.3M in cap space. If we put Burrows on IR to free up a roster spot then we could call up someone from the farm to use some of that cap space before using LTI, but Jensen's our most expensive player at $863K. That'd leave us with $1.44M in cap space and I'm not sure that's close enough to the cap to qualify for LTI with Burrows. Capgeek actually recently updated their FAQ with a bunch of examples on LTI, worth a read: http://capgeek.com/f...serve-LTIR-work EDIT: not sure if it's been posted but he had surgery already: News1130 Sports @News1130Sports #Canucks - Alex Burrows agent Paul Corbiel confirms his client had surgery last night on his broken jaw in Dallas. Corbiel says Burrows texted him and said surgery went well and he feels fine. Corbiel thinks Burrows should be back in the #Canucks lineup around Christmas time. So that could put it at less than the required 24 days for LTI anyway, unless it's closer to New Years. Not sure why he had to go to Dallas for it, unless there is a specialist there that was worth flying to have the surgery done with over anyone in Nashville or at home in Vancouver. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rawkdrummer Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Oh poop! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
apollo Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Time for booth to step up. Do we get any cap relief ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mangosteens Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Opportunity for Booth or Kassian to step up. Hopefully they take advantage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Ooh, no good. Jaw surgery averages 6 weeks recovery. I read somewhere recently that Gagné is training every day with Quebec Remparts waiting for an NHL team w/ a significant injury to call. But, I don't know, might be better first to use this as a chance to give one of the young guys a shot. Yeah, I could see us looking at Grenier for a top 6 replacement, or maybe bringing back Archibald to push up from the bottom 6 rather than going out and signing someone like Gagne. Not a lot of great offensive replacement options at this point considering we have more to work on, but maybe it even gives Kassian another chance in the top 6 - or alternatively, Dalpe, who hasn't really seen that kind of role apart from limited minutes in Carolina. I wouldn't think more than $1-$2 million. If we're interested and can't get him for $1M or less, then it's probably not worth the roster headache it'll create when Schroeder and Burrows are back healthy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aGENT Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 Well, that's unfortunate. I hope MG finally realizes that there is a top 6 scorer he needs to add to the lineup. The fact that so many posters actually think Gillis is ignorant of this is astounding. The issue isn't whether we need a top 6 scorer (or anything else). The issue is how to fill that (and other) holes. -As far as I know, there's no unsigned top 6 forward UFA's of any significance still kicking around. So there goes the "easy" route. -Next option is to trade someone off the roster. Most players of value have NTC's and/or we don't really want to lose if we're attempting a "reload" rather than an all out blow it all up rebuild. We have maybe three guys who might get a top 6 forward in some sort of package that we could arguably afford to lose. Bur was one of them. -We trade some of our recently acquired and better prospects in a package. Given that we're no longer "favourites" this is a non-starter IMO. You build through the draft in todays NHL and the last five years we've done a better than decent job of restocking the cupboard to have a successful "reload" in the next few years (see: San Jose Sharks). To trade away the promise of the next ~5 years to try to rescue what appears to be a transition year to everyone but the local tabloid media and panicky fans is sheer ignorance IMO. We'll play what we have, maybe with a Utica call up and/or minor trades/signings to bolster depth and roll the dice this year. I know that's not what a lot of fans want to hear but unless the boys get on some amazing, fluky streak, you're going to just have to accept that this is not likely to be our year. That Gillis & co are already looking beyond this season and positioning us as best as possible for years were circumstances are more favourable to the team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MANGO Posted December 3, 2013 Share Posted December 3, 2013 he'll be back in 3-4 weeks with a shield.....healing vibes to Burr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strombone1 Posted December 3, 2013 Author Share Posted December 3, 2013 I was hoping he'd be in shape for the Bruins game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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