Seven pounds soft Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Newest? Where have you been for the last year? Sbisa has been the whipping boy since he arrived and people put unrealistic expectations on him because he came in the trade for Kesler. By newest I meant most recent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rush17 Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Too sit in the pressbox in place of Weber if he continues give grade a quality chances to our opponents top players. On team 1040 they mentioned minus the giveaway in the 1st he had the best corsi rating hes ever had a period. Maybe he has improved on some aspects of his game but he needs to learn to be a little more poised with the puck. He isn't the ali baba pizza delivery guy at the arena. (Does ali baba do pizza there? lol) You get my point!!! (I'm thinking of at the Save on Foods Arena in Vic.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Outsiders Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Just don't mess with Hutton and his confidence by playing bad defence. Hutton should make the team. Honestly if Hutton gets 25-30 ish points Sbisa you had a good season lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amish Rake Fighter Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Anybody here old enough to remember Bieksa's first few years in the league? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honky Cat Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Besides Sbisa's poor clearing attempt (which led to a goal),he had a good game....Did anyone notice Dan Hamhuis' pizza tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckylager Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Anybody here old enough to remember Bieksa's first few years in the league?Hell ya, painful stuff. He'd just be drifting, lost in space... Hopefully he'll be better than Bieksa, and he's not really that far off right now. Talk about pizza's, KB knows a thing or two about mozzarella. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cyoung Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 If you don't like a player, you are more likely to nitpick every little thing they do.... Sbisa If you like a player, you will overlook many stupid plays they make. Sbisa hasn't been that bad this year, im actually very happy he's trending upwards, last year was ugly but it's alot of pressure coming to Van. We have some of the most overly critical fans in the NHL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckylager Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Hopefully he doesnt ruin the start to young Huttons career. I do not know why willie would pair him with sbisa, maybe he was satisfied with his film studyI had a very similar comment a few days ago, JR had a very interesting insight which changed my view on that. Edler and Erhoff- Canucks coaching staff had Edler focus on positional play because Erhoff was always jumping up on the rush. Having Hutton play with Spisa may have the same effect and actually make Spisa a more responsible defensman. The guy just gets lost out there sometimes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RRypien37 Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I try to give him the benefit of the doubt because he brings much needed size and physical presence to our D corps but damn..... I used to think Edler was a turn over machine...but he is just on another level....dare I say it....even more so than Bieksa... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggins Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Lack of communication led to the goal. He went to curl left and there was a Flame there. So he reverses and curls right and there's another Flame right there. He doesn't have eyes in the back of his head. Somebody should have been calling to him to play it hard around the boards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejazz97 Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 What would be an acceptable scenario for Sbisa where the team and fanbase (most of it) would be satisfied with how he turns out? Plays when Hutton plays. Passes to Hutton in our own end. Does decent in the O-zone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JAVA-1 Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Make 5-6 mistakes then benched in the third period. So with this in mind it would only be fair if then Edler (and the others)was held to the same standard........ right? Geesh you guys act like he makes the only mistakes out there, start watching the other players as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonberries Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 Lands us a second rounder at the deadline. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boudrias Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 The d-core was faster last night but also lucky that the Calgary forecheck did not get rewarded more, they had chances. Fans have to hope that Sbisa's game matures as he and Edler have decent size and that is much needed. My hope has always been that WD would rein Edler's offensive game in a tad and refocus him into a more physical d-zone player. The game film will tell Calgary to maintain their two men deep physical forecheck. Van's d-core is on the small side and should cough the puck up. What happens in the first month is not as important as how the team matures through the season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
C.S.Strowbridge Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 He's only 25. He needs to learn some poise, but he could grow into a second pair defenceman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggins Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 So with this in mind it would only be fair if then Edler (and the others)was held to the same standard........ right? Geesh you guys act like he makes the only mistakes out there, start watching the other players as well. it seems to depend on how much fans like a player to begin with. It's far harder to get out of our fans doghouse here than the coaches. And once in the fans doghouse they often only watch for the mistakes and ignore any good plays. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amish Rake Fighter Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 He's only 25. He needs to learn some poise, but he could grow into a second pair defenceman. same age Bieksa was when he played his first full season Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smithers joe Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 What would be an acceptable scenario for Sbisa where the team and fanbase (most of it) would be satisfied with how he turns out? they are looking for him to replace bieksa's grit...he is still making some poor decisions but defensemen take longer to hone their skills...i root for him to develop into bieksa 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarM Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 I would like to see more aggressive play similar to what he was like when he first came here. He would be far more effective playing the type of game Bieksa played in his prime. Aggressive with a bit of a mean streak. I am willing to withstand a bit of growing pains as I went through the Dana Murzyn (Pilon) era. Some of you are lucky to not have gone through that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbdoubleu Posted October 8, 2015 Share Posted October 8, 2015 He's aggressive, if not mean-spirited, which I really like about him. He's probably our only D man other teams have to worry about skating around with their heads down (although on days when Edler woke up on the wrong side of the bed he can be deadly - he almost killed Johnny Hockey last night). Sbisa is above-average in skating and passing, but his decision making with the puck constantly gets him in trouble. He can be slick, but he's always trying to be slick. Part of being clever, is being clever enough to know when to try it. Peeling back when he should have played it around the boards, etc. Too often to gives up the simple play, the play his teammates are expecting him to make, to try to make something happen. It's great to look off a forecheck and peel off, but if no one on the ice is expecting it, you haven't created anything. He's almost too confident, and too selfish, for his own good. He's more Chris Tanev than I think he'd like to be. He seems to want to be the QB all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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