Shirotashi Posted September 8, 2016 Share Posted September 8, 2016 Thanks to TSN 1040 of course for the interviews. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyCuddles Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Gud guy Gudbranson. Loving this guy more and more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mathew Barzal Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Well spoken dudes, time to see if they can put their money where their mouth is because both of them will be expected to play a little outside of their depths on this team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maniwaki Canuck Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 All three interviews were pretty impressive. These guys are no dummies, Malhotra in particular. Chances are he ends up as a head coach down the road: I hope it's with us. Gudbranson is going to walk right into the leadership group on this team and set an example as a peer for a lot of the younger players. Things are getting better around here and we are going to be a whole lot tougher to play against. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PrinceGeorgeGoon Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Sometimes I forget brandon Sutter is on the team. Looking forward to seeing him take a step forward this year. The team is going to be hungry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salacious Crumb Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Gave me a broner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chon derry Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 5 minutes ago, Salacious Crumb said: Gave me a broner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckylager Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 For those of us that will be crowded by children if sound starts vibrating from their hand held devices... Transcript please and thanks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggins Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Thanks for posting those. I think Gudbranson will quickly become a fan favorite here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony Da Tigre Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 Gudbranson was an excellent addition to combat the likes of Thornton, Benn, Getzlaf, and Kopitars of the West. However, other than Eriksson, it doesn't seem like we've done enough to address the scoring department unless some super rookie steps up. Juolevi needs more physical development and I think Boeser has one more year in juniors. Expecting the Sedins and Eriksson to provide most of the offense is not the greatest gameplan... =\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammertime Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 7 minutes ago, Tony Da Tigre said: Gudbranson was an excellent addition to combat the likes of Thornton, Benn, Getzlaf, and Kopitars of the West. However, other than Eriksson, it doesn't seem like we've done enough to address the scoring department unless some super rookie steps up. Juolevi needs more physical development and I think Boeser has one more year in juniors. Expecting the Sedins and Eriksson to provide most of the offense is not the greatest gameplan... =\ I do expect more scoring form this team this year. We won't be a top scoring team by any means but I expect Sutter Baer Etem Granlund to all top their point totals from last year and if Rodin can add a few to that great. It might even be enough to make a playoff birth but doubtful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggins Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 2 hours ago, Tony Da Tigre said: Gudbranson was an excellent addition to combat the likes of Thornton, Benn, Getzlaf, and Kopitars of the West. However, other than Eriksson, it doesn't seem like we've done enough to address the scoring department unless some super rookie steps up. Juolevi needs more physical development and I think Boeser has one more year in juniors. Expecting the Sedins and Eriksson to provide most of the offense is not the greatest gameplan... =\ Having Sutter for a full year will certainly help as well. The added benefit being Horvat having an easier role against easier competition. With Sutter in I think Horvat will have a very productive season. Sutter/Horvat is certainly an improvement over Horvat/Vey or Horvat/McCann. Their wingers benefit as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HorvatToBaertschi Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 2 hours ago, Tony Da Tigre said: Gudbranson was an excellent addition to combat the likes of Thornton, Benn, Getzlaf, and Kopitars of the West. However, other than Eriksson, it doesn't seem like we've done enough to address the scoring department unless some super rookie steps up. Juolevi needs more physical development and I think Boeser has one more year in juniors. Expecting the Sedins and Eriksson to provide most of the offense is not the greatest gameplan... =\ Boeser has one more year in college Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Surfer Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 2 hours ago, Tony Da Tigre said: Gudbranson was an excellent addition to combat the likes of Thornton, Benn, Getzlaf, and Kopitars of the West. However, other than Eriksson, it doesn't seem like we've done enough to address the scoring department unless some super rookie steps up. Juolevi needs more physical development and I think Boeser has one more year in juniors. Expecting the Sedins and Eriksson to provide most of the offense is not the greatest gameplan... =\ Adding a 30 goal, 60 or 70 point forward is a pretty good start! > Eriksson. Really, also getting 20 goal Sutter back plus expected natural growth from Bo, Baertschi, hopefully Jake & Etem should at worst stabilize things. They are ALL still in the growth phase of their careers. This should definitely lift us from being poor last year. Other moves? Rodin add's a guy who can dangle, duck, make moves, snipe the odd shot, drop passes onto other guys sticks. I think he'll help. Larsen is, of course, a money puck play. But last years money puck guys on the back end Bartkowski & Weber sucked! Bart had zero career goals at age 26 or 27. No one should have been surprised that did not work out. If Larsen can do what Weber did 2 years ago, I'll be thrilled. My own opinion is the back end is actually the critical component that will determine if we go substantially up? You may be right if you were expecting us to move all the way up to being a contender? But I am happy we have improved... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baggins Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 27 minutes ago, Canuck Surfer said: Adding a 30 goal, 60 or 70 point forward is a pretty good start! > Eriksson. Really, also getting 20 goal Sutter back plus expected natural growth from Bo, Baertschi, hopefully Jake & Etem should at worst stabilize things. They are ALL still in the growth phase of their careers. This should definitely lift us from being poor last year. Other moves? Rodin add's a guy who can dangle, duck, make moves, snipe the odd shot, drop passes onto other guys sticks. I think he'll help. Larsen is, of course, a money puck play. But last years money puck guys on the back end Bartkowski & Weber sucked! Bart had zero career goals at age 26 or 27. No one should have been surprised that did not work out. If Larsen can do what Weber did 2 years ago, I'll be thrilled. My own opinion is the back end is actually the critical component that will determine if we go substantially up? You may be right if you were expecting us to move all the way up to being a contender? But I am happy we have improved... Yet he scored 6 goals here last season to tie Edler for most goals from the D. His real problem was you could flip a coin whether he'd make a good play or a bad play in our own end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Canuck Surfer Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 38 minutes ago, Baggins said: Yet he scored 6 goals here last season to tie Edler for most goals from the D. His real problem was you could flip a coin whether he'd make a good play or a bad play in our own end. Maybe the real problem with Bartkowski was that they offloaded Bieksa. Its indirect. But at that time we were sold that having faster guys who would get to pucks and clear them before pressure arrived... (I called BS at that time btw) And we spent Bieksa's money on Sutter. ie not a D man. Really we had too poor an investment, in fact de-invested, in defemseman last year. Forget any one name, Bartkowski or otherwise. So Bart was asked to do more than he ever should have? Often from his off side. And with higher expectations than we should have had for a player like Bartkowski! If he was just a seventh D man (even now) I bet he would be fine. Great? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phat Fingers Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 We will have much improved scoring this year. We basically picked up a 20g scorer with a healthy Sutter, and added a 30g scorer with Eriksson. Added any improvement from our younger players, within reason and barring major injuries we should score 30-40g more than last season. Hoping that we can have improved goals against as well. Again reasonable with the development and addition of Guds. IMO EW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gameburn2 Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 20 minutes ago, Eastcoast meets Westcoast said: We will have much improved scoring this year. We basically picked up a 20g scorer with a healthy Sutter, and added a 30g scorer with Eriksson. Added any improvement from our younger players, within reason and barring major injuries we should score 30-40g more than last season. Hoping that we can have improved goals against as well. Again reasonable with the development and addition of Guds. IMO EW. Although I'm not sure we will get as much extra goal production as the additions suggest, I do think the improved D and the continued development of the likes of Markstrom and Virtanen should help win games. Sutter is unlikely to be out most of the coming year, and I suspect Tryamkin and Gudbranson will reduce the number of cheap-shots the Sedins receive. So, we have to be considerably better -- especially in consistency. How that works out in total points is hard to predict. 15 more? Some of the other teams in the West have improved too; I suspect we'll see some of our gains in points against teams outside the West. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phat Fingers Posted September 9, 2016 Share Posted September 9, 2016 2 hours ago, gameburn2 said: Although I'm not sure we will get as much extra goal production as the additions suggest, I do think the improved D and the continued development of the likes of Markstrom and Virtanen should help win games. Sutter is unlikely to be out most of the coming year, and I suspect Tryamkin and Gudbranson will reduce the number of cheap-shots the Sedins receive. So, we have to be considerably better -- especially in consistency. How that works out in total points is hard to predict. 15 more? Some of the other teams in the West have improved too; I suspect we'll see some of our gains in points against teams outside the West. 15 or more team points makes us a bubble team. Which is what I believe we are this year. Assuming we can lower our goals against by 25 or so and get an extra 30 or so goals. A net of plus fifty or more on the differential and we can push to be relevant in March and April. Hopefully that hat gets us more than an additional 15 team points. EW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thad Posted September 10, 2016 Share Posted September 10, 2016 Gudbranson sounds like a 30yr old vet in his prime who also won 10 cups for the Montreal Canadiens in a previous life. I wish I had another sister so he could marry her haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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