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I like Stecher, but I think he needs to work on his passing. A Vegas goal last night came off of a face off after Stecher needlessly iced the puck. I think he was trying to make a long pass, but Brooks Robinson couldn’t have knocked down that rocket, he ices the puck way too often. Virtanen did the same made a iazy play didn’t get to center before shooting it in. 

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Troy tries hard, but he takes a beating, and occasionally makes glaring errors, gets caught up ice. He's supposed to be an offensive Dman, but only has 5 goals in his 3 NHL years so far. 42 points in 166 NHL games isn't good for an offensive Dman. Once Hughes gets here, Stech is gone IMO. Hughes is a real offensive Dman who will replace him. That's my guess.

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1 hour ago, NUCKER67 said:

Troy tries hard, but he takes a beating, and occasionally makes glaring errors, gets caught up ice. He's supposed to be an offensive Dman, but only has 5 goals in his 3 NHL years so far. 42 points in 166 NHL games isn't good for an offensive Dman. Once Hughes gets here, Stech is gone IMO. Hughes is a real offensive Dman who will replace him. That's my guess.

I don't think so, he's a solid #6 guy and we don't really have much right side depth. We don't know what side Hughes will play, if Green sticks to his handedness thing it he'll be on the left side. 

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17 hours ago, NUCKER67 said:

Troy tries hard, but he takes a beating, and occasionally makes glaring errors, gets caught up ice. He's supposed to be an offensive Dman, but only has 5 goals in his 3 NHL years so far. 42 points in 166 NHL games isn't good for an offensive Dman. Once Hughes gets here, Stech is gone IMO. Hughes is a real offensive Dman who will replace him. That's my guess.

Cannot remember what Vegas goal it was, I think #3, where Stecher got knocked out of position and the pass went across for a tap in. I really like his desire, skating and passing. His 

biggest goal this year had to be his d-zone play. Better than last year. It would be a huge accomplishment for him to be on a CUP contending team.

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Stecher...  I so admire his work ethic and battle...  but imo his skills won’t be enough to make up for his lack of size.  He’s just too NO dimensional outside his agility and battle level. 

 

The Canucks can’t handle big teams.  But I don’t believe this is about size alone.  It’s the current mix of vanilla defenders.  

 

No player outside Tanev has an elevated skill dimension.  Edler is the most well rounded, but still not really great at anything except absorbing minutes in all situations. 

 

This is where looking at potential gets interesting:

Hughes...  exceptional skating, Iq, breakout defender. 

Woo...  Skating, physicality, rock defender.

Juolevi...  cerebral, offensive 

 

Lucky for Stecher that the log jam is on the left side...  but don’t be surprised if they play Hughes on the right side...

 

Edler Hughes

Juolevi Tanev

Hutton Guddy

 

 

Damn I hope we trade Edler at the deadline for a 1st and re-sign his ars for 3 years at a bargain. 

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16 hours ago, debluvscanucks said:

Good thoughts, Tony Stretcher.  Hurry on back, ya hear?   That goof'll get his.  Can't run around doing that for long...if that's his "game", he's deficient.  He'll be set straight soon enough.  Cocky so and so.

Are you allowed to write such things in your role as a super moderator? ::D

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3 minutes ago, MoneypuckOverlord said:

&^@# you refs, why didn't you let Virtanen and him go at it, instead of getting in the way? &^@# you NHL refs. 

I think the refs know when a guy is way over matched, and are taught to protect that player.  Could that have been why in this case?

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Danick Martel hockey player photoPublic Enemy #1. This jerk is only 5'8" and weighs in at a miniscule 160+.He's only played 6 NHL games in his career (1 assist). I suspect that players around the league have watched the dirty hit on Stecher, and will be aware of Martel. Some NHL players might even decide that he deserves to be treated harshly for his bush-league lack of respect game he plays. Here's hoping so. Here's also hoping a stray puck finds Cooper's face behind the bench..

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24 minutes ago, Alflives said:

I think the refs know when a guy is way over matched, and are taught to protect that player.  Could that have been why in this case?

Just game management, refs will let smaller guys go at bigger guys. They let Gourde fight Roussel in that very game for instance, even though he got an extra 2 for some dumb reason. Gourde is 5'8, weighs a buck seventy soak n wet. At this point they were just making sure Vancouver didn't do anything too reckless. It was clear the Canucks wanted Martel there. 

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52 minutes ago, NUCKER67 said:

Danick Martel hockey player photoPublic Enemy #1. This jerk is only 5'8" and weighs in at a miniscule 160+.He's only played 6 NHL games in his career (1 assist). I suspect that players around the league have watched the dirty hit on Stecher, and will be aware of Martel. Some NHL players might even decide that he deserves to be treated harshly for his bush-league lack of respect game he plays. Here's hoping so. Here's also hoping a stray puck finds Cooper's face behind the bench..

You would have been a fun one to watch playing in our commercial B league back in the 70's in my old home town. Got to the point they were having a hard time getting officials to do the games.

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2 hours ago, Alflives said:

I think the refs know when a guy is way over matched, and are taught to protect that player.  Could that have been why in this case?

That is probably why they stepped in. Just like if a player went to fight EP they would step in.  

 

Like you say, that is part of their job.

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