Recchi Hacks Canucks On Boston Radio

…but yeah, the Canucks dive. So did the Bruins. So does every team in hockey. Do the Canucks do it more? Maybe? Is it possible we see it more because we watch them all the time? Maybe?

I honestly don’t know what to do about the diving issue. That said, I will never understand the 7-8 uncalled crosschecks behind the net on Daniel, or the 9-10 punches to the face from Marchand. With the amount of discretion given to the referees in the game, there will always be diving in some fashion. I honestly don’t know how to get rid of it, and I have a hard time ripping players that do it when the rulebook isn’t being enforced the same way every night.

That is not a rant against the officials. It really isn’t. It’s just a “I don’t know what you can do about it because of the difference in refereeing on a game-in, game-out basis”. That’s not even necessarily a criticism of the referees, just an observation.

Again – before I get torn up – the Canucks did NOT lose the SCF because of refereeing (they were more than perfectly capable of losing it on their own). But refereeing is a league-wide issue that doesn’t get enough real objective review, I don’t think.

he played with Lindros, whiner extraordinaire. Age is finally catching up to Old Man Recchi’s memory.

but the Nucks pull out some pimpy shit that makes the rest of us hate them more. How the hell do you draw a roughing penalty for Patrick Kane without flopping on the ground like a European soccer player. Boston often gets away with it because they get the “old time hockey” tag in the media. Oh, and the constant bitching about officiating does not help. Granted, the refs do dick the dog from time to time, but not ALL the time.

Nevertheless I like when the Hawks play the Nucks, strickly because there is no better rivalry in the sport right now…and I may hate you as much as Detroit.

I’ve been watching the Canucks since I was a kid, im 35 now and I’ve never had such mixed feelings about the group of players wearing the jersey.

As a knee-jerk reaction, it’s easy to dismiss what Recchi said. Hell, we can dismiss what the whole world says about the Canucks. It’s the romantic notion of “the World Against Us”

But we cannot fool the whole world, and shouldn’t fool ourselves. Look, why do we love and respect somebody like Stevie Yzermann, or Joe Sacic, or Nicklas Lindstrom so much. Because they played fair, and didn’t trade their pride and dignity for any of this bullshit. And we should’t expect less from Kesler, Burrows, Luongo or the Sedins. They don’t need to be actors, to succeed in the NHL.

When you dive or act like a clown, you disrespect the whole sport, including the fans, your own fans as well. You do more damage to your team on the long term, then the short term gain that you hope to get.

And the blame should start with Gillis and Vingneault. If I were the coach, I would come down hard on whomever does it, every single time. I would make fun of the act, and ridicule it in the media and in the dressing room as well. I guarantee that it would stop in a heartbeat. The problem is that the management comes to their defense every time they do it.

As much as I can get out the pitchfork and yell for AV’s head, sometimes the way he says things really gives me pause. After this loss for instance, he understands the team is not good enough and without panic he’s addressing the situation. He really is a great coach and I can see why it’s such a hard decision for GMMG. That doesn’t change the fact that he needs to go in my opinion but the man deserves all the respect in the world as a coach and I should try and remember that.

or more people might actually start to talk about the second set of rules used in the SCF.

As a side note, then why not call the diving penalty then? Have they stopped doing that? You know, both guys go off? One for tripping and the other for unsportsmanlike conduct?

I think they should just send the diver off in that situation. If it was a dive then why is the other player penalized?

Maybe, just maybe, arrogance is a part of the reason why this Canucks team is at 500 and is taking nights off rather than piling up wins. Maybe they are just biding their time before pouring it on.

Whether that’s a right or wrong assessment, does it make any of your leery to go out and spend an obscene amount on tickets to a game? I am starting to feel that way. Like I need to be selective on WHEN I get tickets. As in….February, March or April when the Canucks play a team that doesn’t suck.

That rubs people the wrong way.

What he probably meant to say was the Canucks are “too proud” to get down and dirty. I know they’re the same thing, but arrogant and too proud just have a different ring to it.

To me, what Recchi is saying is the Canucks were too proud to use dirty tactics and play like goons. That’s what won Boston the cup. The Canucks decided not to get involved in the goon-ish behavior and it backfired on them.

Now whether that’s a good thing or bad thing, I don’t know. It certainly won Boston the cup and that alone would make it “ok” in some peoples eyes.

It reminds me of all the crap that spews from Don Cherry about how hockey used to be better “in the old days”. Pansy players not standing up for themselves and players acting like prima donna’s. But ultimately maybe he’s right. Boston played an old school down-and-dirty game and won the Cup, while the Canucks went new-gen style and lost.

But it also comes down to a change and shift in the game. I stopped watching basketball all together because I got fed up with the new gen NBA cry babies playing a touchy-feely game. I still watch old games of the Lakers, Pistons, Knicks, and Bulls days when elbows and teeth were flying everywhere.

So maybe with all these restrictions on hitting and adjustments for goal scoring emphasis over the past while, maybe last years Canucks were what the NHL was trying to achieve. Maybe that’s the style of hockey that the NHL is moving towards, and Recchi isn’t just singling out the Canucks, but just using them as a perfect example of what the NHL is moving toward.

Based off that, he seems like a pretty astute guy.

Is with all this agreement between Hawks fans and Canucks fans? Did someone slip something in the water??

;)

that this information came out the same day that it was announced that Chara wouldn’t be facing charges for his hit on Paccioretty. Just a really convenient, easy for people to get behind smoke screen… not implying anything here. Just marking the timing…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6qhq5kh_-M

Canucks win game 7 and five months later, Hank Sedin interrupts his retirement to fly to Vancouver for Hockey Breakfast with Rintoul and Chappy. He calls the Bruins a “Bunch of thugs, a joke from the ’70’s”, hops back on his jet, makes a brief stopover for a speaking engagement at http://www.eliteleadershiptraining.com/ and high tails it back to Örnsköldsvik.

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GOAL!!! Mark Mancari puts in an empty netter. Wolves lead 6-3 very late in the 3rd

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