Dan Cloutier To Attend Red Wings' Training Camp
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 1:21 AM PDT
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PrintCloutier, who had taken last year off due to injuries and, well, not being able to secure a roster spot with any team actually contacted the Wings and asked for a tryout.
Huh. This feels about as treacherous as Todd Bertuzzi playing there. How about Markus Naslund bails on retirement and joins the detested Wings as well? Make it even more of a Canucks reunion. Paging Jyrki Lumme....Mr. Lumme?
Cloutier will have to beat out Chris Osgood AND up-and-come-er Jimmy Howard for a roster spot. At least he can get Niklas Lidstrom to shoot pucks from center ice again at practice and hope that he doesn't let it in. Practice makes perfect, Danny boy!
Did you all hear that Cloutier tried to commit suicide in Vancouver a few years back?
Yeah, he jumped in front of a bus and it went right through his legs!
Hey, in all seriousness, I was a Cloutier-supporter. But I don't wish him well playing for THAT team.
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Harsh.
Clouts was a decent goalie…but he personified the Canucks of that era…just couldn’t get it done in the big games. Not his fault…probably more the ‘culture’ of the team at that time.
I DO wish him well…his chances are slim, but he may get the attention of a team that might need some help.
I agree he was surrounded by lousiness here, Expat. I was just having some fun at his expense.
But I really don’t cheer him on trying out for the Wings though. No way.
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 8:02 AM PDT up reply actions
If they can talk Naz out of retirement and trade for Jovo, the Wings will be all set.
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Painful memory
I was at the game with the cetre ice goal debaucle. Please stop bringing it up. It was the worst Canucks experience of my life, and the memory of it is traumatizing. Have mercy.
by Beantown Canuck on Sep 5, 2009 10:00 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
There’s anti-anxiety pills for that kind of thing! (Or…just alcohol….or BOTH!)
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 10:03 AM PDT up reply actions
The puck skipped pretty bad though ;)
One point, here...
The Wings were playing bad hockey during that series: even with this goal, if Yzerman didn’t come back early from injury and play harder on one leg than ANY of his teammates could manage with two, Detroit’s playoffs end in the first round. Period. He came back early for the express purpose of kicking his team in the ass, and should have had the Conn Smythe that year.
Cloutier didn’t lose that series; Yzerman won it.
Never underestimate the power of a lousy goal, but yeah…we should have wrecked Stevie Y’s other leg.
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 11:38 AM PDT up reply actions
Yzerman:
Bang on, Thursday. Everytime I have to explain the stamina of a great hockey player to someone who doesn’t get it, I bring up Yzerman on one leg beating us.
I spent the entire series screaming at the TV for someone to take his ass out(Stevens would have, same goes for early Messier or Pronger being Pronger) and no one stepped up.
And while this was occuring my brother Duncan(‘Lumme-ish’?)
threw a salmon at him during the warmup for Game 4
in a nice reversal of the Joe Louis octopus tradition.
If the Canucks play the Red Wings in the playoffs, remember to throw a Salmon at them!
ps-But not at Lidstrom, let the giant slumber….
I don't think there was any way of stopping Y in that playoff,
he was on a mission and has an absolutely unreal pain tolerance, Pronger tried to take him out in round three and got taken out himself instead, probably would’ve had to shoot him to stop him that year.
Haha good point! Gotta love Stevie. What a freak
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions
Thursday knows
Although I also think Hasek’s contributions in games 3-5 in that series get overlooked.
And let’s not forget Hull overcoming a bruised uterus!
by Sneps-ish on Sep 5, 2009 12:47 PM PDT up reply actions 1 recs
Many Red Wings have said it was Vancouver fans showing up at the airport and taunting them after game 2 that focused them on beating the Canucks.
by Zombie Jesus on Sep 5, 2009 12:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Really? Ooo I gotta find a link to that story and then issue a damned gag order!
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 12:48 PM PDT up reply actions
We’re dicks
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by Yankee Canuck on Sep 5, 2009 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
Damn…I am liking this guy named for a day…(must have been tough in school huh? Kids can be such mean little pricks)..
Exactly, I can still recall the image, as clear as day, of Stevie Y having to lever his ass up with his stick after scoring or almost scoring, or setting someone up. Dragging that one knee around. Even cheering for the other team, you had to marvel at it.
Or probably enduring many shots like Cortizone etc.
I like him now bringing that to 2010, but yeah…Clouts gets remembered for the centre ice goal because it did matter to that series.
After that goal, Detroit started coming back more.
Yes it was Stevie, but it was the others too.
Team game , right? glances over at Bobby Lou glaring…looking away
vancitydan
luckily for me, i don’t remember this.
i didn’t really start paying attention to the canucks until cloutier got hurt in november 2005 and alex auld replaced him for the rest of the season. that was also the year when anson carter played with the sedins, the canucks missed the playoffs by one point, and rod brind’amour brought Stanley to our town.
GO CANUCKS GO!
So: A winning predicament in a losing situation!
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
Wait..you didn’t touch Rod’s manboobs did you? The guy is built like the Hulkster.
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 1:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Brind'amour is the man. C.R.Rules!!!!
I would not really mind if Clouts played for Detroit. At least when we have to play them next playoffs we could score from almost anywhere. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think he would be a bad player anymore, as long as they dressed him as a d-man and used him as a goon. He was pretty tough.
At least when we have to play them next playoffs we could score from almost anywhere
Nah…no used giving him a chance to screw over his old team
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions
He’ll never play for Detroit. Never. Just a guy in camp to help push their young back ups. Seriously, even if he played well and is signed to some Raycroft-esque deal, he isn’t starting for that team.
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by Yankee Canuck on Sep 5, 2009 4:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Only a Sith deals in absolutes. I will do what I must.
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 6:09 PM PDT up reply actions
i thought you were supposed to be the sith, sean
remember a few stories ago, that whole “darth zanstorm” thing…
GO CANUCKS GO!
So I’m not consistent! Maybe I’m torn between the 2! If you want me to be a Sith let me know. Whatever floats your boat :)
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 11:51 PM PDT up reply actions
Never forget Darth Zanny, even Vader came back in the end…and the Force defeated that Empire.
In our context it means even though you liked the Leafs at one time, but you are OK now…
LOL
I always thought R2D2 got the short end in hero vibe afterward.
Just for saving the Princess once he should have been on a coin…or something.
Friggen Wookies and Humans take all the credit…
vancitydan
haha! Love it!
In our context it means even though you liked the Leafs at one time,
I still do. Sue me!
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 6, 2009 1:25 AM PDT up reply actions
Tommy Soderstrom ???
Is that him?? He tilted sometimes. Cloutier was an animal hahaha. Too bad he was only half ass in net.
Tommy Salo! Check it. Rag doll city! And then he challenges the Islander bench! Nice
by Sean Zandberg on Sep 5, 2009 6:11 PM PDT up reply actions
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