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WD vs Torts vs Mr. Gant, One Team, Similar Results.

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So what's the difference?

The teams have about the same number of points.

This year the team has had way more practice time and fewer games crammed together.

No elephants in the room.

Everyone is supposed to be happier.

Mr. Gant is the coach, he runs the team into the ground, trades away young players, creates a goalie controversy, alienates Kesler and finally his team bombs and he is gone.

Torts gets parachuted in, while my preference was to get a coach familiar with west coast travel, he has experience training young players but he inherits an aging team with schisms in the dressing room. The team has to deal with a compressed schedule due to the Olympics and the most man games ever lost due to injury in the team's history. A gong show develops when he goes ballistic with an old coaching rival after Andrew Alberts career is finished by a check the other coach praises. Both Sedins, the scoring punch on the team, get injured. He calls up just about every decent player from the farm and gives Kassian the best chance he has had to date. But people zero in on his watching TV, like he isn't supposed to do anything else but heal the injured, calm the excited, psycho analyze the goalies and pull rabbits er, players, out of thin air. Let's get one thing straight here, I am not praising everything he did or didn't do, but if AV and WD can be given passes for the way the players play as being not their fault then no should crucify Torts for the hand he was dealt.

It is easy and convenient to blame one person for where the team is at, old and no trained prospects from within the system. Nobody questioned the Luongo deal after all that drama.

The board is cleared, just about every decision making person is replaced.

WD is anointed almost as soon as his AHL team is finished. No real NHL experience, no real experience dealing with multi millionaire players but loads of experience dealing with players that will do just about anything and everything to make the show. He is given a pass to many things and given credit for....well not much of an improvement. The Sedins are playing lights out but still doing the same things as last season, things Torts was crucified for, shot blocking, PK duty and maybe 45 seconds less ice time than last year. Essentially WD has more depth and a relatively healthy line up. No elephants in the room. An easier schedule to start.

When the team wins "all" get praise and when they lose the silence from the media is deafening.

There is still a lot of hockey to be played, I am not sold on this team's cup contender ship, the prospects are not ready and not really getting any NHL time.

The scary part is that they may just be good enough to miss out on every top draft pick this year, as well as every other Canadian team.

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So what's the difference?

The teams have about the same number of points.

This year the team has had way more practice time and fewer games crammed together.

No elephants in the room.

Everyone is supposed to be happier.

Mr. Gant is the coach and his shlt don't stink, he runs the team into the ground, trades away young players, creates a goalie controversy, alienates Kesler and finally his team bombs and he is gone.

Torts gets parachuted in, while my preference was to get a coach familiar with west coast travel, he has experience training young players but he inherits an aging team with schisms in the dressing room. The team has to deal with a compressed schedule due to the Olympics and the most man games ever lost due to injury in the team's history. A gong show develops when he goes ballistic with an old coaching rival after Andrew Alberts career is finished by a check the other coach praises. Both Sedins, the scoring punch on the team, get injured. He calls up just about every decent player from the farm and gives Kassian the best chance he has had to date. But people zero in on his watching TV, like he isn't supposed to do anything else but heal the injured, calm the excited, psycho analyze the goalies and pull rabbits er, players, out of thin air. Let's get one thing straight here, I am not praising everything he did or didn't do, but if AV and WD can be given passes for the way the players play as being not their fault then no should crucify Torts for the hand he was dealt.

It is easy and convenient to blame one person for where the team is at, old and no trained prospects from within the system. Nobody questioned the Luongo deal after all that drama.

The board is cleared, just about every decision making person is replaced.

WD is anointed almost as soon as his AHL team is finished. No real NHL experience, no real experience dealing with multi millionaire players but loads of experience dealing with players that will do just about anything and everything to make the show. He is given a pass to many things and given credit for....well not much of an improvement. The Sedins are playing lights out but still doing the same things as last season, things Torts was crucified for, shot blocking, PK duty and maybe 45 seconds less ice time than last year. Essentially WD has more depth and a relatively healthy line up. No elephants in the room. An easier schedule to start.

When the team wins "all" get praise and when they lose the silence from the media is deafening.

There is still a lot of hockey to be played, I am not sold on this team's cup contender ship, the prospects are not ready and not really getting any NHL time.

The scary part is that they may just be good enough to miss out on every top draft pick this year, as well as every other Canadian team.

Do you really think that a coach never experiences losses?

They've lost twice to blowouts in recent memory. 5-1 and 5-0.

Maybe the team and the coach would learn from it.

All you've highlighted is that everyone was cheering for Torts BEFORE Christmas. How easy is it to turn on someone so quickly, like how this thread has turned into.

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yeah okay getting a top 10 pick in a deep draft is a scary part. Its a deep draft if the canucks manage to squeak into 9th or 10th they will still get a solid pick. If the canucks some how make the playoffs that will be great but who knows. This team just is depressing to watch on the powerplay. that 2011 team had a pp that was lights out.

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