IBatch Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 2 hours ago, Keenan's Moustache said: Canucks owner Francesco Aquilini on SN 650 right now; he more or less confirmed that Bo Horvat will be the captain, without actually coming out and saying it, simply stating, "We will name our captain on Wednesday at the home opener, and it's the worst-kept secret in town," When pressed further by Sat Shah if it will be Bo Horvat, FA said, "I can't confirm anything," Go Canucks Go, Go Captain Bo Go!! Let’s just hope he doesn’t get tanked after the CAL game and then walk around in the hotel lobby with his pants down...oh wait that’s somebody else who just made managements job a lot easier in naming a captain. Ha ha. I’m jealous that I can’t be there, this is one game that has a lot of meaning behind it...it’s going to be Horvat but still even on live TV it will be pretty cool to watch. To all those super fans on this site that will make it to the game - enjoy and congrats for being their to watch history. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chicken. Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 9 minutes ago, IBatch said: Let’s just hope he doesn’t get tanked after the CAL game and then walk around in the hotel lobby with his pants down...oh wait that’s somebody else who just made managements job a lot easier in naming a captain. Ha ha. I’m jealous that I can’t be there, this is one game that has a lot of meaning behind it...it’s going to be Horvat but still even on live TV it will be pretty cool to watch. To all those super fans on this site that will make it to the game - enjoy and congrats for being their to watch history. Wow thanks, I will be there next week! Should be a special one! Ill try to post photos or a video 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IBatch Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 1 hour ago, Chicken. said: Wow thanks, I will be there next week! Should be a special one! Ill try to post photos or a video Do that... look forward to it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squamfan Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 2 hours ago, IBatch said: Let’s just hope he doesn’t get tanked after the CAL game and then walk around in the hotel lobby with his pants down...oh wait that’s somebody else who just made managements job a lot easier in naming a captain. Ha ha. I’m jealous that I can’t be there, this is one game that has a lot of meaning behind it...it’s going to be Horvat but still even on live TV it will be pretty cool to watch. To all those super fans on this site that will make it to the game - enjoy and congrats for being their to watch history. Bo Horvat Blackface coming in 3 2 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarM Posted October 3, 2019 Share Posted October 3, 2019 I hope our next Captain resembles leadership qualities similar to Linden and less of Hank. If I see one more "gentlemanly" leader again I am going to vomit. I want a leader who will "give everything" right to the last minute of a game 7 of a Stanley Cup final. I don't care what he says to the press or what he does in the community, I want him to be the LEADER ON THE ICE and a LEADER IN THE LOCKER ROOM, PERIOD. A leader who's only goal is the Stanley Cup and will not be just satisfied with a President's Cup. If Bo wants to lead like this, I am 110% behind him. GCG!!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post MattJVD Posted October 4, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2019 2 hours ago, EdgarM said: I hope our next Captain resembles leadership qualities similar to Linden and less of Hank. If I see one more "gentlemanly" leader again I am going to vomit. I want a leader who will "give everything" right to the last minute of a game 7 of a Stanley Cup final. I don't care what he says to the press or what he does in the community, I want him to be the LEADER ON THE ICE and a LEADER IN THE LOCKER ROOM, PERIOD. A leader who's only goal is the Stanley Cup and will not be just satisfied with a President's Cup. If Bo wants to lead like this, I am 110% behind him. GCG!!! Bo scored the OHL championship winning goal with less than a second remaining in the 3rd period of game 7. Because he was giving it everything he had to the last second, and wasn't satisfied with just taking the tie to OT. 3 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JeremyCuddles Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 3 hours ago, EdgarM said: I hope our next Captain resembles leadership qualities similar to Linden and less of Hank. If I see one more "gentlemanly" leader again I am going to vomit. I want a leader who will "give everything" right to the last minute of a game 7 of a Stanley Cup final. I don't care what he says to the press or what he does in the community, I want him to be the LEADER ON THE ICE and a LEADER IN THE LOCKER ROOM, PERIOD. A leader who's only goal is the Stanley Cup and will not be just satisfied with a President's Cup. If Bo wants to lead like this, I am 110% behind him. GCG!!! Implying Hank was one such player that was “content with just a President’s trophy”? Okay bud Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Roger Neilsons Towel Posted October 4, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted October 4, 2019 20 hours ago, EdgarM said: I hope our next Captain resembles leadership qualities similar to Linden and less of Hank. If I see one more "gentlemanly" leader again I am going to vomit. I want a leader who will "give everything" right to the last minute of a game 7 of a Stanley Cup final. I don't care what he says to the press or what he does in the community, I want him to be the LEADER ON THE ICE and a LEADER IN THE LOCKER ROOM, PERIOD. A leader who's only goal is the Stanley Cup and will not be just satisfied with a President's Cup. If Bo wants to lead like this, I am 110% behind him. GCG!!! Your post reminded me of this story about Trevor Linden that I have in my profile bio. Favourite player of all time. Quote Linden heroic in 1994 Stanley Cup Final by John McGourty / NHL.com December 15th, 2008 After all these years, Cliff Ronning lets us in on a secret that speaks glowingly of Trevor Linden's competitiveness and tenacity. "You don't know this, but Trevor Linden had cracked ribs and torn rib cartilage for the last four games of the 1994 Stanley Cup Final," Cliff Ronning said. "You can't imagine what it's like to hear your captain, in a room down the hall, screaming at the top of his lungs as they injected the needle into his rib cage. Knowing him, he probably thought we couldn't hear. He would then walk into our dressing room like nothing had happened. That was inspirational." Ronning was remembering Linden dropping his right shoulder into Brian Leetch, pushing the defenseman to the side and scoring on Mike Richterto make the score 2-1 Rangers in Game 7 of the Final. Linden couldn't will his team to victory that night, despite his two goals, in the deciding 3-2 loss. "I broke my hand in that game," Ronning recalled. "But how do I say I can't play when there's a guy who has played four games with broken ribs and torn cartilage and he's dropping his shoulder into guys to make plays?" "There's a famous picture of Trevor and goalie Kirk McLean standing in exhaustion and it exemplifies what everyone on our team gave that day. It was a sad day because we lost, but it was a great day in the sense of what we had accomplished. We were not as talented a team, but how close we came! And, how close we became as friends, to this day." Ronning said the famous picture of Linden and goalie Kirk McLean, standing together in Game 7 in total exhaustion, captures the moment. The Canucks had beaten the Calgary Flames in seven games, the last three in overtime, before five-game series victories over the Dallas Stars and Toronto Maple Leafs. Linden was Vancouver's second-leading scorer in the playoffs, behind his right winger Pavel Bure, with 12 goals and 13 assists. Down 3-1 in the Final, the Canucks rallied to win Games 5 and 6. At one point in Game 6 in Vancouver, Linden crawled on the ice to get to his bench, he was in so much pain. "Trevor and Kirk and the exhaustion in their faces exemplifies what everyone on our team gave that day," Ronning said. "Pat Quinn was inspirational to the younger players and put us in situations that we'd be accountable to each other. That's where Trevor fit in. He showed us that his accountability as a player was to the team, not to Trevor. By playing on the defensive side of the puck and taking hits to make plays, to staying in the night before a big game, Trevor set the disciplinary tone by himself. That's why we saw him as a great leader. "Quinn slowly groomed our team as he went along and he needed a captain who shared his philosophy of hard work," Ronning said. "Trevor never took a shift off. He sacrificed his body to block shots and did a lot of little things that some scorers won't do. That's what made him an excellent captain." Ronning grew up in suburban Vancouver, in Burnaby, and was overjoyed to be traded from the St. Blues to the Canucks in 1991. He had a lot riding on winning the 1994 Stanley Cup but even more in seeing his hometown take the Canucks to their heart. He knows the role Linden played in making that happen. "He's been great for this city from the day he got here until he played his last game," Ronning said. "It's not just what he did on the ice. He did so much for the community. I can feel that connection with the fans and you don't know how many sick kids he visited in hospitals. He brought this community together and I've always thought it would be interesting if he ran for mayor." The NHL honored Linden in 1997 as the 10th recipient of the King Clancy Memorial Trophy. "Certain people have leadership skills in their makeup and it was abundantly evident in Trevor Linden," said Quinn, who named Linden team captain at age 21. "He had shown it as a young player and we were a team changing our ethic. We hadn't been a winning organization. He seemed the right guy to put in there to be our leader and captain. "He was a high-level performer who brought his level up in the big games. He didn't make mistakes and he scored important goals. Even if he wasn't a prolific scorer, he was that good, solid, two-way player that coaches love to have in the lineup. "Linden was big in that Game 7 and the whole series," Quinn continued. "There's no possible way to give more than he did. He led by example and was a monster in the final game. Woulda, coulda, shoulda, but Vancouver should have won that series. We were better in four of the seven games." https://www.nhl.com/news/linden-heroic-in-1994-stanley-cup-final/c-397641 3 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goalie13 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 So, I was just reading an article in The Athletic where they polled some Canuck players on a bunch of things; who's most underrated, which Canuck is most primed for the season, which team (other than the Canucks) will surprise people, and so forth. When asked which date they had circled on the calendar, Stecher said the Habs, Boeser went with the road game in Minny, Ferland said in Carolina, and Horvat... the Home Opener. Mind you, Virtanen said the same thing. But still. https://theathletic.com/1262787/2019/10/04/canucks-player-poll-breakout-candidates-most-underrated-and-why-vancouver-will-surprise-this-year/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarM Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 17 hours ago, N7Nucks said: Implying Hank was one such player that was “content with just a President’s trophy”? Okay bud No I was implying he was a "gentlemanly" Leader, but he did win a lot of presidents trophies didn't he? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarM Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 29 minutes ago, Roger Neilsons Towel said: Your post reminded me of this story about Trevor Linden that I have in my profile bio. Favourite player of all time. Yeah I love that story too. That's why I don't go with that excuse for our 2011 SCF where a lot on CDC said we were decimated with injuries and that's why we lost. Injuries to me, meant that it gave someone a chance to be a "HERO". With those injuries that Linden sustained, he never let it show and still managed to score 2 goals in the final. I have never seen a Leader play with that much "guts" since then. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhillipBlunt Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 11 minutes ago, EdgarM said: Yeah I love that story too. That's why I don't go with that excuse for our 2011 SCF where a lot on CDC said we were decimated with injuries and that's why we lost. Injuries to me, meant that it gave someone a chance to be a "HERO". With those injuries that Linden sustained, he never let it show and still managed to score 2 goals in the final. I have never seen a Leader play with that much "guts" since then. Bo is the clear choice for that very reason. He's the type of player who'd go through the wall for his team. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hiebskey Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 I've been holding off on buying a Horvat jersey for over a year now, until he is named captain. After Wednesday night I will be able to do that finally! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tre Mac Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 hour ago, Roger Neilsons Towel said: Your post reminded me of this story about Trevor Linden that I have in my profile bio. Favourite player of all time. Hank was a good leader but Linden is in a class of its own in terms of heart, almost tragic we have a generation or two of fans that never got to witness that. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdgarM Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 55 minutes ago, PhillipBlunt said: Bo is the clear choice for that very reason. He's the type of player who'd go through the wall for his team. I sure hope so he appears to have all of the traits to be that. Only time will tell once he gets the "C" and then his play in a long playoff run. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theo5789 Posted October 4, 2019 Share Posted October 4, 2019 1 hour ago, goalie13 said: So, I was just reading an article in The Athletic where they polled some Canuck players on a bunch of things; who's most underrated, which Canuck is most primed for the season, which team (other than the Canucks) will surprise people, and so forth. When asked which date they had circled on the calendar, Stecher said the Habs, Boeser went with the road game in Minny, Ferland said in Carolina, and Horvat... the Home Opener. Mind you, Virtanen said the same thing. But still. https://theathletic.com/1262787/2019/10/04/canucks-player-poll-breakout-candidates-most-underrated-and-why-vancouver-will-surprise-this-year/ Confirmed, Virtanen is the new captain. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MM16 Posted October 6, 2019 Share Posted October 6, 2019 I hope the team store will have jerseys ready for Wednesday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HomeBrew Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 (edited) Little did everyone know, the real reason that Loui Eriksson has been in the press box is to work on his acceptance speech! Edited October 7, 2019 by HomeBrew 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nergish Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 Any truth to the rumour that the team store will add free Cs for existing Horvat jerseys? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jovocop55 Posted October 7, 2019 Share Posted October 7, 2019 1 hour ago, nergish said: Any truth to the rumour that the team store will add free Cs for existing Horvat jerseys? maybe if u buy from them recently and have receipt? i doubt they will apply for free for older jerseys.. i could be wrong Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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