Samuelsson Believes In Vancouver's Direction / AV Loves The Veteran Additions
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 12, 2009 4:10 PM PDT
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PrintMikael Samuelsson told CDC that he is looking forward to this season, to contribute offensively and defensively. He said he only wanted to play here because he liked where the team was heading. It's OK to say we "stabbed ourselves in the foot" during the playoffs Mikael. We appreciate that kind of honesty. Check out the video of his interview here.
Meanwhile, Alain Vigneault is obviously happy about Mike Gillis' additions of two players in Schneider and Samuelsson who have won the Stanley Cup before.
"I love the fact we've signed two guys that have won the Stanley Cup," said Vigneault. "The experience, that maturity added to our group will definitely help this team. We have a lot of young players that are in the developing process. When you add elements that have won, know what it takes to handle the moments and the pressure of those situations, it should help our group."There is a different interview with Alain Vigneault here at the Province.
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Haha. True. I could have mentioned him, but AV didn’t. TRADE BAIT!
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 12, 2009 4:27 PM PDT up reply actions
I like Lukowich
If he hasn’t lost a step.
At his age he might make more of a contribution than Schneider at his.
What about Luko beating out SOB for top 6? As long as SOB doesn’t whine and we spell him in…that Top 6 looks pretty good ;
Mitchell/ Salo
Bieksa/Ehrhoff
Edler/Luko
Scneider and SOB …well, Schneids is coming in after the shoulder, so they work him in slow…SOB in and Luko in and out. I do see AV having 7 D on his bench through most of the year.
But don’t you think its all just farting in the wind?
We all know that there will be other moves…and surprises
vancitydan
I think MG is going to play as many of them as they can for the first 10 games or so before making a decision to trade someone. Luko and Erhoff are both new.. no one knows how there going to mesh on the team. They could be stellar or they could blow, we simply dont know. It would be stupid for MG not to give them a shot at least.
With that being said, MG has done some amazing things this offseason and its going to interesting to see what he does next.
If Edler isn't top pair to start the season
my bet is he will be very soon, only lack of opportunity due to the heavy vet presence might hurt his chances, but if he gets his chance esp on the pp, I won’t be surprised if he hits 50 points this year.
Only two of the top 8 dmen on the team are RH shots, as a coach I’d hate that, never want guys playing the puck up the boards on their backhand.
OB as the 7th guy? Oh he would bitch, for sure! You know how he is.
A couple things:
-Schneider isn’t cleared for contact either. He may not join the team by October 1.
-Edler, I think, has earned the top 2 pairing spot.
-I’m a big fan of Lukowich. He isn’t a guy that is going to sit on the bench, IMO.
-I think a deal goes down before October 1st because of this plethora of D-men that we have. Obviously, this is all hanging on Sundin’s decision.
Yep…the Sundin domino. I really didn’t mean them as 1 thru 6 in those pairings. I just thought those particular ones have offense and defense in every pairing, with some toughness for all…
But yeah, I am sure we have many good pairings.
I agree that Edler is a Top 2-4 defenseman this year.
vancitydan
OB or Lukowich….Tough choice. I don’t know enough about Luko to answer that. Just from what I’ve seen though, vaguely speaking, I’ll take Lukowich.
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 13, 2009 12:40 AM PDT up reply actions
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