mll Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 3 minutes ago, Phil_314 said: I wonder if anyone's ever considered that Jim might be sitting him to keep him from being eligible for the upcoming expansion draft? (haven't scrolled back much in this thread to see if anyone's mentioned this, nobody got time for that) According to Cap Friendly's expansion sim, Rodin needs 37 more games to be eligible to be picked. The team has played 44 out of 82 games this season. Perhaps by game 46 they'll bump one of the space-holders (either trade Burr, demote Megna to a lower line or send another player down) out of an offensive roster spot and let Anton have a shot (given that his knee is ready) for the remainder of the season? Doesn't make sense that they say they recognize someone's value only to not use them so that would be my best guess. Then again, this team's done weird stuff before so if they legit don't intend to use him then it'd just belong in their list of potential screw-ups. Hope that's not the case though. Every player that is not protected is exposed. The team can only protect 7Fs. Among the players that are left unprotected there needs to be at least 2Fs with 40NHL games or 70 NHL games over two seasons. Rodin is exposed regardless of the number of games he plays unless they use a protection spot on him - he will simply not be one of the 2Fs with the minimum game requirements.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAZY_4_NAZZY Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 How Megna is still on the PP is beyond me. Willie is so stubborn its nuts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckledraggin Posted January 14, 2017 Share Posted January 14, 2017 1 hour ago, CRAZY_4_NAZZY said: How Megna is still on the PP is beyond me. Willie is so stubborn its nuts He's on the PK? Hey Rodin...Get out there and block some shots for us son Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skategal Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/anton-rodins-left-knee-just-not-right Anton Rodin had just finished practice and another lengthy, at times uneasy, question and answer session with the media. He was alone, in the locker-room, when one of his teammates, out of uniform, stopped by. “How is the knee?” his teammate asked, thoughtfully. Truth is, Rodin’s knee is not right. Maybe it’s right enough to play, and maybe it’s not. No one will find that out Sunday. He will not be in the lineup against the New Jersey Devils. The knee, actually more than anything else, is the reason why, and it’s a bit heartbreaking because no one knows when it will be right. “It’s not (100 per cent),” said head coach Willie Desjardins. “We all want it to be 100 per cent. We all want him to play the way he can so when he goes in, we get a great evaluation. But with that, it’s hard to take guys out of the lineup to put in a guy who doesn’t feel he’s 100 per cent. “That is a tough thing to do.” Vancouver Canucks forward Anton Rodin has played just three games for the team this season. He is currently sidelined with a left knee injury. Jeff Vinnick / PNG Desjardins had been planning to play Rodin this week. His team’s power play looks punch drunk. It needs help, desperately. Helping power plays is what Rodin does for a living. At least, when he’s healthy. Addressing the Rodin situation in unusual detail last week, Desjardins said it’s not just management pressuring him to play Rodin. It’s “everybody.” There is good reason. This city has little patience for plugs, so-called two-way players, the ungifted ones. Brandon Prust may have been something of a fourth line folk hero in Montreal. In Vancouver, they couldn’t get rid of him quickly enough. The city craves offensive heroes, the skilled ones. Everybody wants to see Rodin play, because he has the potential to be one of them and there are not many in this organization who do. “But I have to make sure that knee is totally ready,” Desjardins said. “I want to get him in.” The fact Rodin is not right, at least not really, is one of the most confusing turns of this Canucks season. You can almost feel his heart drop when he looks down at his left knee to describe what he’s been through for a year. “I couldn’t have imagined a year ago, I’d still be here talking about this knee,” Rodin said. “When it happened, I thought they were going to stitch it up and I’d miss a practice. Then, I thought it was going to be two or three months. It’s frustrating. “I do know why it’s been like this. There is no point in me saying it. I actually don’t even know how to explain it.” What he said next is something that will stick with me for some time. You see, Rodin has wanted nothing more than to play in the NHL. His MVP season in Sweden is what got him back here. His explosive quickness, especially on his first three steps is what helped him have that season, and really it’s what the Canucks love most about him. He was asked if he could feel that quickness returning, and he said: “It’s been so long, I don’t even know where I was before anymore,” he said. “I don’t even know where I am now. “All I can do is compare how I feel now to how I feel yesterday.” You hear him say it, and you can’t help but feel for him. It’s been so long, he doesn’t remember what it’s like to feel healthy. Rodin described his knee situation as a “work in progress.” “It’s going to be like that for me for a while,” Rodin said. “But, it’s all right.” Rodin has played in three games this season for a total of 26 minutes and 44 seconds. In his last one, on Jan. 6, his knee pad slipped and in a nondescript fall, he hit his knee, bruised it, and was seemingly unavailable, though he did dress and not play the next night. It was another hit in what has been Rodin’s most difficult year as a professional. “I’ve been in tough positions before, but I could get back to 100 per cent,” he said. “But not it’s like going up and down, going up and down.” Even at the start of pre-season, when he played a lot and the team was telling people he was healthy, things weren’t right. “It was tough in the beginning of every game, I want to say the first couple of minutes,” Rodin said. “But as I got warm, it got better. “I played five games.” In those games, he played on the power play, playing the half wall on both sides of the ice. Listen closely, and you can almost hear it. jbotchford@postmedia.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boudrias Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 14 hours ago, skategal said: http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/anton-rodins-left-knee-just-not-right Anton Rodin had just finished practice and another lengthy, at times uneasy, question and answer session with the media. He was alone, in the locker-room, when one of his teammates, out of uniform, stopped by. “How is the knee?” his teammate asked, thoughtfully. Truth is, Rodin’s knee is not right. Maybe it’s right enough to play, and maybe it’s not. No one will find that out Sunday. He will not be in the lineup against the New Jersey Devils. The knee, actually more than anything else, is the reason why, and it’s a bit heartbreaking because no one knows when it will be right. “It’s not (100 per cent),” said head coach Willie Desjardins. “We all want it to be 100 per cent. We all want him to play the way he can so when he goes in, we get a great evaluation. But with that, it’s hard to take guys out of the lineup to put in a guy who doesn’t feel he’s 100 per cent. “That is a tough thing to do.” Vancouver Canucks forward Anton Rodin has played just three games for the team this season. He is currently sidelined with a left knee injury. Jeff Vinnick / PNG Desjardins had been planning to play Rodin this week. His team’s power play looks punch drunk. It needs help, desperately. Helping power plays is what Rodin does for a living. At least, when he’s healthy. Addressing the Rodin situation in unusual detail last week, Desjardins said it’s not just management pressuring him to play Rodin. It’s “everybody.” There is good reason. This city has little patience for plugs, so-called two-way players, the ungifted ones. Brandon Prust may have been something of a fourth line folk hero in Montreal. In Vancouver, they couldn’t get rid of him quickly enough. The city craves offensive heroes, the skilled ones. Everybody wants to see Rodin play, because he has the potential to be one of them and there are not many in this organization who do. “But I have to make sure that knee is totally ready,” Desjardins said. “I want to get him in.” The fact Rodin is not right, at least not really, is one of the most confusing turns of this Canucks season. You can almost feel his heart drop when he looks down at his left knee to describe what he’s been through for a year. “I couldn’t have imagined a year ago, I’d still be here talking about this knee,” Rodin said. “When it happened, I thought they were going to stitch it up and I’d miss a practice. Then, I thought it was going to be two or three months. It’s frustrating. “I do know why it’s been like this. There is no point in me saying it. I actually don’t even know how to explain it.” What he said next is something that will stick with me for some time. You see, Rodin has wanted nothing more than to play in the NHL. His MVP season in Sweden is what got him back here. His explosive quickness, especially on his first three steps is what helped him have that season, and really it’s what the Canucks love most about him. He was asked if he could feel that quickness returning, and he said: “It’s been so long, I don’t even know where I was before anymore,” he said. “I don’t even know where I am now. “All I can do is compare how I feel now to how I feel yesterday.” You hear him say it, and you can’t help but feel for him. It’s been so long, he doesn’t remember what it’s like to feel healthy. Rodin described his knee situation as a “work in progress.” “It’s going to be like that for me for a while,” Rodin said. “But, it’s all right.” Rodin has played in three games this season for a total of 26 minutes and 44 seconds. In his last one, on Jan. 6, his knee pad slipped and in a nondescript fall, he hit his knee, bruised it, and was seemingly unavailable, though he did dress and not play the next night. It was another hit in what has been Rodin’s most difficult year as a professional. “I’ve been in tough positions before, but I could get back to 100 per cent,” he said. “But not it’s like going up and down, going up and down.” Even at the start of pre-season, when he played a lot and the team was telling people he was healthy, things weren’t right. “It was tough in the beginning of every game, I want to say the first couple of minutes,” Rodin said. “But as I got warm, it got better. “I played five games.” In those games, he played on the power play, playing the half wall on both sides of the ice. Listen closely, and you can almost hear it. jbotchford@postmedia.com Sad to read. Rodin could possibly be seeing his career ebb away. I rather he be put on LTIR for the rest of the season than risk what opportunity he has left. One has to question whether he was given a premature OK last fall to play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 3 hours ago, Boudrias said: Sad to read. Rodin could possibly be seeing his career ebb away. I rather he be put on LTIR for the rest of the season than risk what opportunity he has left. One has to question whether he was given a premature OK last fall to play. Without being privy to Rödin's medical reports, it's hard to know what the best course is from here on out. But I just hope that the Canucks are working toward a goal of getting him back to truly 100%, and not just getting him "close enough" so he can get back into some games this season. If there's any risk involved with playing on that knee (beyond the risks every player faces when they step on the ice), I'd rather just shut him down for however long it takes. Even if that means (like you suggested) spending the remainder of this season on LTIR. And even if Rödin doesn't play again this season, I'd still try to re-sign him. I've seen enough, between his SHL MVP, the Canucks preseason, and limited action playing on one leg with Utica and Vancouver this year, to say with some confidence that a healthy Anton Rödin would be a useful NHL roster player. So getting him healthy needs to be the primary focus IMO. What that entails is anyone's guess. And unfortunately, it doesn't seem like Canucks management/coaches , the trainers and medical staff, or even Rödin himself knows what he needs or how long it's gonna take. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ilduce39 Posted January 15, 2017 Share Posted January 15, 2017 I'd love to see him in the lineup this season but I just hope the Canucks take care of Rodin this year so he re-signs and we see what he's capable of next year. He missed his entire off-season training program, played on a bad knee and he still looked electric in pre-season. Guy's worth investing in. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghostsof1915 Posted January 16, 2017 Share Posted January 16, 2017 - Have a specialist look into his knee. - If the best thing going forward is to shut him down for this year, and he will be good to go next Fall, so be it. Sign him to another year, and see how it goes next year. I'm finding the Canucks medical staff seem to really be bad at diagnosing problems, and putting forward plans for recovery from injury. There's like this top secret veil of secrecy around injuries. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrDrFunk Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hammertime Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 6 minutes ago, HerrDrFunk said: People will still find a way to blame coaching and management. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HerrDrFunk Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Just now, hammertime said: People will still find a way to blame coaching and management. Oh, undoubtedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 Good news and bad news. Or maybe bad news and good news? The bad news is obvious. Rödin is out indefinitely. His knee just isn't right. The good news IMO is that the Canucks have finally made the call on shutting him down. Getting scans done and specialist consults. Rest and then rehab. This is absolutely the best choice under the circumstances. It's heartbreaking for Rödin given how hard he's worked to get here. But this gives him the best odds to recover fully and hopefully give the NHL another shot once he's 100%. I still hope the Canucks re-sign him and he can get a chance to really showcase his abilities in 2017-18. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numb3r 16 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 get well soon Anton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckinEdm Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 22 minutes ago, SID.IS.SID.ME.IS.ME said: Good news and bad news. Or maybe bad news and good news? The bad news is obvious. Rödin is out indefinitely. His knee just isn't right. The good news IMO is that the Canucks have finally made the call on shutting him down. Getting scans done and specialist consults. Rest and then rehab. This is absolutely the best choice under the circumstances. It's heartbreaking for Rödin given how hard he's worked to get here. But this gives him the best odds to recover fully and hopefully give the NHL another shot once he's 100%. I still hope the Canucks re-sign him and he can get a chance to really showcase his abilities in 2017-18. Unfortunately this might be the end of Rodin's NHL dream (lets hope not) he's missing an entire year and a half from hockey with this injury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GB5 Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 1 hour ago, HerrDrFunk said: I wonder if this still means to Willie that Boucher has to wait for Rodin to get a chance to play first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
b3. Posted January 17, 2017 Author Share Posted January 17, 2017 That's brutal. He clearly wasn't even 100% in pre-season, he shouldn't haven't even played until he was. Really makes me wonder what goes on behind closed doors, when it comes to the medical staff and management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheOgRook Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 3 hours ago, hammertime said: People will still find a way to blame coaching and management. And still get angry and demand answers as to why he's not playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustABandwagoner Posted January 17, 2017 Share Posted January 17, 2017 rip Hope he signs a 1 year deal next season with us. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elvis15 Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 (edited) What, it's not a conspiracy against Rodin by the Canucks and Desjardins? Edited January 18, 2017 by elvis15 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Salmonberries Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 (edited) 5 hours ago, CanuckinEdm said: Unfortunately this might be the end of Rodin's NHL dream (lets hope not) he's missing an entire year and a half from hockey with this injury. There is no reason we can't sign him to another one year contract and try again next year. He is still young. Providing he returns to 100 percent health, that is. Edited January 18, 2017 by Salmonberries 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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