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1 hour ago, Brad Marchand said:

Pettersson himself said last year that he won't wear #14:

 

If I were Burrows though, I'd think it would be an honour that the next great thing to join the Canucks would want to wear my number. Burrows is not getting his number retired, so might as well have a potential star player wear it than some plug not doing it justice.

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2 hours ago, MattJVD said:

IMO Crosby and Ovechkin are the only two generational players in the league. Not  Tavares, not Karlsson, not Malkin, not Kopitar. 

 

I guess McDavid is making a case for himself now too. 

By definition a generational player comes once a generation so once every 25 years. So yes, it's been quite overused. 

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On 7/17/2018 at 6:24 PM, Tre Mac said:

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I just posted this to start some more 'how much does he weigh" arguments.  Source: Reddit.

Looks a bit like Paul Kariya in this photo. Anyone else? Love it. Paul was a good looking guy. 

 

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17 minutes ago, theo5789 said:

Remember when Trevor Letowski wore #10? Unless it's in the rafters, any number is fair game.

Not really similar since Bure had already switched to number 96 and hadn't been number 10 for like 5 years.

 

Not to mention he didn't just retire so it wasn't the same circumstances.

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12 minutes ago, NUCKER67 said:

I don't see the issue in wearing #14, but good on Elias to decide to take another number. Burrows made #14 great. Elias will make his own number great. I guess he could do the ole flipperoo and use #41.

Am I missing something? Why wouldn't he just be number 40, the number he was all season?

 

Why would there even be a debate?

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7 minutes ago, DeNiro said:

Not really similar since Bure had already switched to number 96 and hadn't been number 10 for like 5 years.

 

Not to mention he didn't just retire so it wasn't the same circumstances.

Bureau switched to #96 for like one season and was injured for most of it and went back to #10. His legacy will always be with #10. It wasn't retired so Letowski used it.

 

Burrows is a great guy and was great for us, but there is no disrespect in one of your future superstars using the number. Would you prefer in about 5 years that some nobody plug takes number 14 instead? #14 is not being retired, so if Pettersson wants it, then I'm fine with it and I'm sure Burrows will be fine with it as well.

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10 minutes ago, DeNiro said:

Am I missing something? Why wouldn't he just be number 40, the number he was all season?

 

Why would there even be a debate?

It's not a debate. He can wear #40 if he wants (unless Zalewski has an issue) lol

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4 minutes ago, theo5789 said:

Bureau switched to #96 for like one season and was injured for most of it and went back to #10. His legacy will always be with #10. It wasn't retired so Letowski used it.

 

Burrows is a great guy and was great for us, but there is no disrespect in one of your future superstars using the number. Would you prefer in about 5 years that some nobody plug takes number 14 instead? #14 is not being retired, so if Pettersson wants it, then I'm fine with it and I'm sure Burrows will be fine with it as well.

Again the difference is Burrows just retired, Bure kept playing and was number 10 in Florida.

 

You may not understand it, but there's a code of respect among hockey players. Pettersson gets it which is why he said he won't wear 14.

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4 minutes ago, theo5789 said:

Bureau switched to #96 for like one season and was injured for most of it and went back to #10. His legacy will always be with #10. It wasn't retired so Letowski used it.

 

Burrows is a great guy and was great for us, but there is no disrespect in one of your future superstars using the number. Would you prefer in about 5 years that some nobody plug takes number 14 instead? #14 is not being retired, so if Pettersson wants it, then I'm fine with it and I'm sure Burrows will be fine with it as well.

Didn't Jeff Tambellini wear number 10 in Vancouver too?

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2 minutes ago, MattJVD said:

Didn't Jeff Tambelli wear number 10 in Vancouver too?

13 years after Bure wore it.

 

At that point I don't think anyone was convinced his number would be retired here, or even honored for that matter.

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3 minutes ago, DeNiro said:

13 years after Bure wore it.

 

At that point I don't think anyone was convinced his number would be retired here, or even honored for that matter.

Yeah, I didn't think anything of it when he selected that number.

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