Does My Ass Look Big In This NHL Team?
by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 12:38 PM PDT
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Henry Rollins used to say "Does my ass look big in this state of the union address?" when he'd discuss his cringing, powerless embarrassment whenever President Bush would speak publicly on behalf of Americans. As if to suggest when the President can't pronounce "nuclear" the mistake makes all the innocent people he represents look like morons.
This morning I kept returning to a similar phrase: "Does my ass look big in this NHL team?"
It was one of several things I thought about on the walk to work. I often chat with myself during the trek to the train because it passes the time and, hey, why talk to other people? When the conversation is confined in my skull, I sound brilliant and my answers are always profoundly insightful.
Since I'm struggling to enjoy life today I'll share the conversation with you.
Full disclosure: it probably makes no sense.
Inner Me: Did last night really happen or was that the collective result of 10 weeks of frantic playoff hockey drinking hitting me at once?
The idea I have to wrap my head around a riot is absurd. I can't justify what these idiots did and I'm an American...I know damaged chromosomes with anger streaks when I see them. This picture will unfortunately be seared into my recollection of the 2011 Cup run and I don't have the words to articulate the frustration. What the hell would have happened if they won? I don't want to get into the psyche behind who riots and why since frankly I wouldn't know where to begin. But to happen twice under similar circumstances is beyond troubling. 100,000 people gatherings in the downtown Vancouver area should be off the table for, um, forever?
Inner Me: OK so that actually did happen. There was a game last night too, right?
There's nothing to like about being shut out on home ice in a game seven. Some see it as three fluke goals, I saw it as an extension of game six where after Boston survived some early scares they dictated play. For most of the series, but definitely last night, Vancouver was smothered in their zone and were getting no high percentage chances. From the second period on it was a tough game to stomach. Both Sedin's finished with -4 but at least they owned up afterward. I guess that's a good thing. Kesler showed more jump than he had all series. But that Hansen penalty at the end? I've never laughed in more exasperated, defeated way before in my life. My ass is going to look big in this NHL team today.
Inner Me: Would you have used Hodgson last night?
Considering Seguin played over ten minutes I guess it's worth asking, moreso with Raymond out. Not that Tambellini or Hodgson would be enough to change the course of the game, especially considering Hodgson has been so sheltered in his own zone this season. Overall I don't get too much of the outcry but I do think the team needs to figure out where he fits in because the fourth line isn't it. Personally I'd love to see him on Manny's line and learn from one of the best centers we have, but that'll take some camp adjustments to get Hodgson comfortable on the wing.
Inner Me: So how about that Dan Hamhuis?
Easily the knife in the stomach of the finals was losing Hammer. He and Bieksa were so formidable in those three rounds that they could have helped stem the tide at times, but without him it allowed Boston to key in more on Bieksa physically which in turn forced additional mistakes. Lost a huge PK presence as well. His loss can't be understated and thank god he'll be around next season with all the pending defensive changes.
Inner Me: How important is Bieksa now?
He's not perfect, but they don't grow his kind on trees and our farm has no one like him. Hamhuis and Bieksa should be our number one pairing going into 2012. Pay the man. Before July 1st. Please. I'm super cereal about this.
Inner Me: Al Gore!
Super cereal!
Inner Me: And Ehrhoff?
He's the other end of the spectrum. Let Detroit or someone else throw their money at him. Earlier this season I would have pulled for him to stay, but his one-dimensional style was exposed time and time again this spring. Every time there was a goal with a man left wide open in front of Luongo, it was #5 hauling ass to try and get back to him. We'll miss the offense, but I'd rather let Sweatt or someone else in camp step up and fill the void. Let another team take the Ehrhoff gamble.
Inner Me: And Sami Salo?
It's amazing that with his injury streak, Salo somehow made it through ten weeks of playoff hockey without so much as a hangnail. He blocked a Shea Weber shot for god sakes, I swear I thought parts of him would land on my roof after that. But I don't see him returning unless he takes a deep discount and even then I'm not sure we want a 37 year old, injury prone guy back there unless he's sheltered on the third pairing. He says he'll play one more season, but I have no idea what the priority should be.
Inner Me: That Keith Ballard experiment sure went tits up.
If Michael Grabner walks away next week with the rookie of the year honors, the Ballard deal will be a huge kick in the face (though getting anything for Steve Bernier is still a win). I'm a Ballard fan, never quite understood why Vigneault hated on him like he did. He makes mistakes and his shot selection had to be the worst of the entire defense, but on the same hand, he's generally responsible in the breakouts, is a shot blocking demon and more than capable in a game where Alberts is getting more than 12 minutes. If he's truly done with the team it'll take a sweetheart deal for another GM to take that cap hit off our hands.
Inner Me: Does that mean you don't want to see Alberts back?
Not at $1.3 million for a reserve option. If he takes a cut and wants to come to came and earn it, by all means.
Inner Me: Is there really a goalie problem this time around? Can't blame the "C" anymore.
Yes and no. Yes because Luongo will be defined, right or wrong, by game seven. He slayed some demons in outlasting Chicago and out-dueling Rinne, but for the next year all people will remember is what Joel Ward did, what Marchand did and how often he got pulled in the final round. Then there's the obvious cap hit, which is magnified greatly when you consider Schneider showed he's more than capable of carrying a larger regular season load. At the same time Luongo had an excellent regular season, picked up shutouts in three of the four rounds and 11 of his 15 wins this post season were by one goal; Luongo made a lot work with little to zero offensive support. Gillis has staked too much on Luongo to walk away from his guy (and his deal!) now. Unless a sweetheart offer for Schneider is emailed over (or Eddie Lack grows a third arm) I wouldn't break up this tandem before the start of next season.
Inner Me: Hey remember Mikael Samuelsson?
No.
Inner Me: What's the biggest thing the Canucks do now?
Besides getting Bieksa signed I would make Hansen the next priority; Malhotra and Hansen are too valuable a tandem to walk away from, not to mention Hansen can step up alongside Kesler or the twins as he sparingly in the regular season. Besides that I'd look at the second line where we either put Samuelsson back with Kesler or drop Sammy back and look for a better, more pure scoring option. Imagine Kesler with Parise?
Inner Me: Yeah but there's no chance you'll get Parise.
I know that asshole, I'm just thinking outloud.
Inner Me: You realize you're calling yourself an asshole when you do that?
I hate you.
Inner Me: So that means you're giving up on Higgins? I thought you were a fan.
I am, I'd be pretty content if he stayed but I'd look to him as a third line solution, more so than a pure scoring option. He can also sub in for Raymond if his comeback gets stalled. But, as he did with the Flames last year, I'm willing to bet he wants to head back East. He's certainly worth chasing at a respectable cap hit.
Inner Me: What about the rest of them: Lapierre, Glass, Rypien and Tambellini?
Lapierre is too much of a Vigneault-type guy and as an RFA is a safe bet to return. Flip a coin for Glass or Tambellini, let them fight it out in camp. I'd quietly close the book on Rypien and enjoy the YouTube highlights he's provided over the years.
Inner Me: You mean the Hal Gill one?
Definitely the Hal Gill one.
Inner Me: After that Cup run, you'll never get your wish to see Vigneault steel-toed out into oncoming traffic.
No I won't. Maybe he'll wander into traffic on his own.
Inner Me: We cool with GMMG?
I asked the same thing at the end of last season and was more concerned then. The man did his job with Hamhuis and Malhotra and seeing Tanev contribute out of no where was a pleasure. His deadline deals were huge for a change. You can't argue with the regular season results. I'm happy he's there.
Inner Me: So now what?
I'm going to shave this shit off my face. I thought mine looked terrible until I saw Bergeron's last night. How does that man eat with that upper lip monster hanging out there?
Inner Me: Mom will be psyched. She hated that look on you.
Good point, I'll keep it then.
Inner Me: But seriously what do you do now?
I should do some laundry, it's getting pretty dicey in there every morning...
Inner Me: No I mean with the hockey stuff.
Oh, well I think the draft is soon. Wait, it's mid-June? WHERE THE FUCK DID MAY GO?
Inner Me: You may need a break.
Or maybe I should blog for a sport that can't toy so easily with my emotions. Like the WWE or something. Fake stuff shouldn't bug me.
Inner Me: Remember when you were a kid when Andre the Giant beat Hulk Hogan for the belt using an evil twin referee paid off by Bobby Heenan and you cried?
Fuck.
Walks onto BART train, sits down in a gross, possibly wet seat and ponders breakfast options before realizing there really are none.
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Great post
cheered me up after the fucking travesty that the entire night was last night.
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 12:45 PM PDT reply actions
Nice ramble
I enjoyed it.
And I’m pretty sure Higgins will be gone. There was a quote I saw from him saying “…I’m proud to play with some of the players that are in this …room”
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Heh, well that answers that. But he could have been caught up in the moment too.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 12:54 PM PDT up reply actions
From his interviews, he picks his words pretty carefully
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Then he’ll go down as one of the best rental players in recent years.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 12:58 PM PDT up reply actions
yep
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
I would love for him to stay
But I don’t think it’s happening
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
I recall that the speculation was that Higgins likes it out east, and we’re about as not-that as you can get. I badly wanted him at the deadline, and I’m grateful that he didn’t make me look silly :D. The Isles really should make a big push for him.
by Passive Voice on Jun 16, 2011 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks, Yankee.
Some much needed levity on an otherwise dismal day.
As for your personnel thoughts, I’m pretty much on board with you top to bottom.
Hamhuis was a crushing blow. Need him and Bieksa back.
Ehrhoff can take a flying fuck.
Will never understand the Ballard /AV thing, love some of the Dmen in our system, though.
I’ll stop here, because like I said, I’m picking up what you’re laying down.
Win it for Manny!
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Awesome post yankee
Last nights clusterfuck is absolutely knackering me today, nice to see something a little lighter.
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No joke
That’s the conversation I had this morning, right down to the WWE stuff.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 12:55 PM PDT up reply actions
My inner conversation this morning went like this:
Inner Me: Fuck fuck fuck fuck
Me: Sad Sad Sad Sad
Inner Me: Fuck fuck fuckin fuckers!
Me: Bummed, depressed, embarrassed, outraged
Inner Me: I dunno who is more deserving of my anger: the rioters or the morons who wouldn’t disperse when the police told them to
Me: Fuck fuck fuck fuck
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The WWE stuff was my favorite part.
Great post, in general, though!
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Loved it
What’s weird about talking to yourself?
Agree with your priorities: Bieksa, Malhotra, Hansen. May have some quibbles down the line. Eg. Would love to see Schneider stay but I don’t see it happening. Too valuable as trade bait.
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by Tink for Nucks on Jun 16, 2011 12:55 PM PDT via mobile reply actions
Thanks for making me laugh Yankee. I needed that. Now I’m off to clean the streets!
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 16, 2011 12:57 PM PDT reply actions
Great writing
on such a shitty day.
Or is it shitty? Suppose we won. Wouldn’t we talk about the same things then….about the future? We would. Just add some more smuggness, gloating, minor stuff.
Otherwise, not much different.
It’s all about the journey, guys.
(Fuck, I know how much it sucks, but I am trying to shake it off)
I want Lapierre back – really badly. He is a true playoff performer.
I want Bieksa back.
I am torn about Ehroff. I liked him so much until now, and just turn my back on him? Because he played with a really bad shoulder?
I want the goalie tandem back.
And I want Salo back.
My rant makes no sense. If I want everybody back, we will end up with the exact same team. But I love this team, if only they can stay healthy(er) next time.
Actually, that’s what Aquallini said today: He loves this team, and he will try to make sure that everybody is back. At least one more year.
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Ha! Of course. Those convos are the best!
Your inner self likes hockey as much as the outer one.
Of the top of my head, here’s what I think…
Yeah, Juicy Hammer is a great pairing. Pay Juice. Hammer getting hurt was fantastic in its negative affect. The media were too focussed on eviscerating Luongo instead. But it could be argued the ball started rolling down instead of up the hill when he went to hip check Lucic. Curse Looch for being so big!
Sami Salo can be part of my third pairing anytime. I have no prob’ with him returning, B/C it will be for less. He would be big in the inspiration category, and the blue line has some youth that could play the spot if/when the guy goes down.
Hoff? I am of two minds. But mostly agree. Let him play in Detroit or somewhere, and replace him with a guy that has some offense and an overall game, like …Ballard! I don’t know what to make of the AV/Hips thing, except to maybe say we have not the whole story.
I do think more than probably others that he will be back. Dude was a top pairing defenseman in the league. The bad can be coached out, and I think it was more of a left/right numbers thing, and what he needed in a 5-6 guy ( where he put the guy he might not know as well, with all his depth ) was more an Aaron Rome, simple game than the Ballard swashbuckle rush and shot. I love his overall skill set, and just don’t think he will be tossed aside. We can all call him a “reclamation” project when he bounces back next year!
I am not going to get all over Luongo in the offseason as much as others will, I am sure. I guess that will make me a “defender” again. I am fine with that. The guy got us to this point. Win and lose as a team, and I trust his work ethic and desire to be better to find a solution to whatever it is ( that the media and fans will call it, anyhow…) that is the “problem”. We have more than enough summer to think about that! I will say, I think Luongo getting the micro-critique this summer will be a bit maddening for a fan of his. I don’t know why the goalie gets more “stick” than everyone else.
But that is the way it is in hockey.
Thanks for the post Yank’. I am sure we will have lots of time to get the questions answered in our minds, and in how GMMG works it out.
It will be fun! Here’s hoping the fucking Mayans were not right, because I think 2012 is OURS damnit!
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Has anyone thought about
the fact that this team had at least 6 new players this year? Doesn’t a team need AT LEAST one season, before they truly learn to play together. So what’s wrong having the same team one more year, before you blow up the barn?
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I don’t think losing Ehrhoff and Salo constitutes blowing up the team. To retain them would eat up too much of the remaining cap and we have players that can replace them (before we make the RFA Weber offer…just kidding). Honestly I think the backend will be fine, it’s up front that needs some adjusting. Vancouver lost to Boston for a of couple reasons, but 8 goals in 7 games on the biggest stage of them all is pretty damning the morning after.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 1:14 PM PDT up reply actions
PARISE
Wait, what, I’m not dreaming anymore?
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
from what i hear
his new deal with Nashville is close to being done, and supposed to be done by draft time, apparently he and Nashville’s front office are talking quite agreeably
Am I paranoid? I don't know. I went to a therapist once, but I left before he gave me the diagnosis, cause he had it out for me.
by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 1:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah
It’s all a huge pipe dream, but we have joking about it. Especially since Nashville fans get upset whenever you mention the possibility of it
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
If its close
Just replace the Weber name with Suter, rinse, and repeat.
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Suter is a UFA in 2013 right? I could look but I’m lazy.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 1:31 PM PDT up reply actions
I think so
also lazy, but pretty sure this is his last year under his low $$$ deal.
It is intriguing though, because how do they pay both, AND Rinne, AND something for a guy like Ward, etc…when they can’t or won’t spend to the cap.
Fine with me. Suter would look almost better on our blue line than Weber!
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I would be equally surprised to Suter leave.
Whatever they say about not spending to the cap in Nashville, Suter, Weber, and Rinne are the franchise.
Am I paranoid? I don't know. I went to a therapist once, but I left before he gave me the diagnosis, cause he had it out for me.
by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 1:37 PM PDT up reply actions
If they keep the positive momentum from last year’s playoffs going they might even start spending more money…
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Yeah I don’t see Suter moving either.
An aside: I would have killed to have had Willie Mitchell against Boston. And Pavel Bure with a good knee.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 1:39 PM PDT up reply actions
It is equally effective
In annoying Pred fans. LOL
And don’t be so quick to dismiss. Yes, they will really try to, and really want him.
But the numbers of Weber’s deal are going to impact on Suter’s, and Rinne will be due a big raise.
They BETTER build on the success and spend more money. Otherwise, dismissing Suter leaving will turn out to be wrong.
David Poile has a pretty interesting summer…
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Personally, I think Poile is going to do everything he can to keep Weber, Suter, and Rinne… he’ll get rid of whomever, as long as he can keep those three. They’re the face of this franchise now. But yeah, I’m fascinated (and a little frightened) to see what happens with Nashville’s roster this summer…
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As you know Semi......
……we could use some goal scoring prowess in Nashville.
But I don’t think you’re gonna get Batman or Robin. Or, as Bieksa calls him, the Riddler (Rinne).
The scuttlebut is that Weber is gonna sign before July 1st. I expect somewhat of a hometown discount. At $6.5M for 5-7 years. But one thing he’s always maintained is that he wants to see a commitment that the franchise wants to win. To me, that means signing Suter, who is a UFA after next year, which I think will happen. Those two work great together and make each other better. I can’t imagine separating them. And I think that they don’t want to be separated. That’s what they’ve said, so you gotta take it at face value.
And Rinne is Rinne so you gotta resign him. I figure that to resign all three of them, it’ll cost $6-7M more than what they’re getting now. That’d put Weber at $6.5-7M, Suter at $5.5M and Rinne at $5M per year. They all could make more in UFA so we’ll see what they really want to do…………
Despite popular belief, GMDP has made some boneheaded signings over the years that’ve strapped us for cash. This year Sullivan ($3.75M) goes off the books as does Dumont (rumor, $4M). So we’re gonna have the money to resign the triplets. Hopefully we’ll add some scoring too, which is another one of Weber’s “suggestions.”
Too bad for the loss Semi (not so much for Dan and Twitchy :). Great series though that was full of ups and downs and tons of suspense. Better luck next year, unless you play the Preds.
The truth is always the right answer....
by Pekka for Predator Pontiff on Jun 16, 2011 2:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah I was totally kidding.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 1:26 PM PDT up reply actions
I think paying multiple 1st round picks and 7+ million in cap space to steal Weber would be an awful move.
by Passive Voice on Jun 16, 2011 3:38 PM PDT up reply actions
amen
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by Sean Zandberg on Jun 16, 2011 9:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Can't we just
Do it the old fashioned way by driving up in an unmarked van and jumping out with balaclavas on?
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Lets fucking do this
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 9:16 PM PDT up reply actions
Eric Brewer too?
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ugh
brewer
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Great article
I laughed and then I continued crying….
by Thomas Alexander on Jun 16, 2011 1:11 PM PDT reply actions
Although the cap is not exactly an issue, the sheer number of UFAs you guys have suggests to me that the team, as is, is going to experience some fairly significant changes
With as skinny as the free agent market is going to be, anyone of use who reaches July 1 without a contract will have their price go significantly up. This means that any guy looking to get paid (read: EVERY guy) knows that if he stalls until July 1 he’ll get his money.
I don’t think Ballard moves. I would be surprised to see Gillis (or really any GM for that matter) give himself the vote of no confidence by moving a guy the year after you gave him a 4.2 million dollar per year payday. I know that StanBow wouldn’t do it (damn ulcer).
I think the Canucks retain only one of their UFA defensemen (most likely Bieksa), and his contract won’t come cheap with Detroit looking to replace Rafalski, Salei (and probably, ultimately, Lidstrom too). The SCUM fan pariah side of my family from Michigan tells me that Salo and Bieksa both figure in as likely targets for Ken Holland. So, if the Canucks try to get Bieksa signed cheap before July 1, he will know that if Gillis doesn’t offer a figure that is too his liking Ken Holland just lost a contract with a 6 million dollar cap hit to it, and will likely lose another.
One way or another, 2011-2012 is definitely Schneider’s last where he is.
A player as useful as Higgins will quickly find himself out of Vancouver’s price range with teams like Florida that need, well anything, and have to spend 30 mil to reach the cap floor.
Is this a team blow-up on the scale of what we had to put up with last season? No, not even in the same neighborhood, but teams that go as far as Vancouver did with as many open contracts as Vancouver generally see some substantial turn over.
Am I paranoid? I don't know. I went to a therapist once, but I left before he gave me the diagnosis, cause he had it out for me.
by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 1:23 PM PDT reply actions
If they lose Bieksa, there’s a problem. MG has to see that and the fact Bieksa has played his whole career in the Vancouver system and is tight with Burrows, Kesler and the others is key. Plus earlier this year when everyone thought he would be traded MG assured him he was going no where. I feel comfortable they get it done.
I wonder if Higgins would go back to Florida after his half season there. Maybe he’ll end up in Boston as part of the Recchi void.
I can see Salo in Detroit. Not a bad place for him to go and they play a style that doesn’t put him in direct danger of exploding.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 1:30 PM PDT up reply actions
Not saying they lose Bieksa. I’m saying that Ken Holland likely drives Bieksa’s price up (regardless of the franchise stuff and how tight the locker room is, this is these guy’s livelihood and everyone has their price) and as a result they lose someone else to keep him.
I also have this funny feeling Salo ends up in Detroit, he seems like a natural replacement for Ruslan Salei.
Am I paranoid? I don't know. I went to a therapist once, but I left before he gave me the diagnosis, cause he had it out for me.
by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 1:35 PM PDT up reply actions
Well, if true, that Ken Holland is a jerk.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 1:38 PM PDT up reply actions
tampering
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Well how else would you describe Ken Holland's free agency record other than:
taking or trying to take players away from Western Conference opponents?
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
LOL
can i just say your user name is all kinds lol-tastic.
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 1:59 PM PDT up reply actions
To be honest I haven’t watched many of Detroit’s moves the past few years. You could say the same with the Sharks at least last summer right?
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 1:50 PM PDT up reply actions
without a doubt
but you can’t really blame a good GM for making an aggressive, if underhanded move, to simultaneously improve his team’s fortunes while undermining the others. Either you get the piece, or force the other team to overpay. I know most Hawks fans still have chapped asses over the Hjalmarsson offer sheet that probably forced Ladd out of town.
The facts are, Ken Holland has to replace a top defensive pairing and he has something in the neighborhood of 14 million dollars of cap space to do it. Defense is going to get expensive this offseason.
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 1:55 PM PDT up reply actions
No I wouldn’t blame a GM for doing that either, especially if you take a key cog out of one of your competitors.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 1:58 PM PDT up reply actions
and the 14 million is just what the Lidstrom and Rafalski contracts free up
Forget that Detroit also has cap space coming open from the pending retirements of Draper and Osgood.
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 2:01 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't see Salo in Detroit
I think the Wings have enough old dudes, they will be looking for younger players
“one Erhoff for sale, one Erhoff for sale…”
if you haven't noticed
Detroit likes the old guys
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 7:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Yeah they do but I think they prefer them “home grown” if you know what I mean. And they already have quite a few of those so not necessarily looking for more of them.
When Sami is in
He is a consistent, solid defenseman with one of the best shots in the league. If we can’t afford him, and think the injuries and such are better replaced with going another way…or if he does not sign for our HTD
Then I can totally see the Wings going for him. I would hate that, unless they move to the East!
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We did not give Ballard the pay day
we traded for him already under contract.
And not everyone wants to stall to get the most money. We have several guys signed for less than market value and it wouldn’t be surprising if it happens again this off season.
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 1:44 PM PDT up reply actions
Certain occurrences that I won't mention have a way of changing that type of attitude
and the Ballard contract is close to immobile regardless.
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 1:57 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree that you couldn’t move Ballard’s contract with all the luck in the world. I’m curious if they’ll give him the Bernier and Wellwood treatment: a strict summer training regiment to get him into the condition they want to see and then make a final verdict in camp.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 2:00 PM PDT up reply actions
I bet he’s got a year to get it together
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
My thoughts too
He’ll get next year to prove he can effectively eat top four minutes, and then sell him door to door if he doesn’t pull through.
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 2:02 PM PDT up reply actions
The question
Is also whether Ballard WANTS to be given another chance here
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you know
more likely now that we lost. Especially because AV has to take some pie on the face for that from Mike Gillis for how Ballard was handled. “I gave up Grabner and a first for this guy, and am paying him over $4MM, and you ‘make a statement’ about ‘its about the work ethic and not the salary,’ in the process utterly destroying the guy’s confidence and making him useless for the playoffs when we would have needed him most to step in for injuries. If he’s not hurt, he’s playing next year” is how the conversation likely will/should go down.
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I hope this is true.
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by Tink for Nucks on Jun 17, 2011 9:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Yeah you have to get that ride onto the showroom floor. Imagine the conversation trying to explain why Alberts and a rookie jumped ahead of him on the chart. Heavy emphasis on “intangibles.”
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 2:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Keep in mind Ballard's really ability was oversold and contract overvalued
because he received it from a non-competitive franchise that has to spend like a drunken sailor now and again just to reach the cap floor.
I was skeptical of the Ballard deal from the get go. To me, Ballard is a third pairing minutes guy who received a second pairing role (Its Florida for Christ’s Sake), played in front of Tomas Vokoun, and thus received an overvalued contract.
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 2:08 PM PDT up reply actions
Oh it’s a terrible deal, I’d like to think even he would admit it. Even on a subpar team, his stats suggested he can play at least second pairing minutes. But even if earns the trust for a third (and assuming Bieksa returns) we’re left with the Ehrhoff void and that’s the ideal. I’m not including Salo for this matter since he didn’t play much of the regular season anyway.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 2:15 PM PDT up reply actions
(Disclaimer: if this actually happened I'd be pissed) If I were the GM of your team
I’d be closely, very closely, following the negotiations between Winnipeg ownership and Andrew Ladd. If Ladd doesn’t want to follow the team to Winnipeg, then I’d move a hell of lot to land him.
I would let Erhoff and Higgins walk, even move Samuelsson if I had to, to get a veteran guy who can wear a letter, who is level headed, soft-spoken, and has won it all before. If you ask me, what Vancouver needs one or two (maybe three) guys from “Won it All Before” category.
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 2:33 PM PDT up reply actions
Off my Ladd
I want him back, but I really have a feeling Winnipeg will do everything to try to keep him. The question is does he want to be there?
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
I think Ladd wants a winner
but, If I do actually hear the names Andrew Ladd and Canucks in the same sentence this offseason without terms like “not” or ‘never" separating them, then you can bet I’ll be on the first plane to Vancouver with a sniper rifle.
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 2:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I thought Ladd was happy with the move? Ladd to Vancouver has been batted around too much for me to think it’s real. I’d love to see him here, but I don’t see it happening.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 2:38 PM PDT up reply actions
and it better stay that way
don’t think Ladd has a problem with Winnipeg, pretty sure he graciously, but not entirely happily, accepted he’d been shipped to a non-competitive team.
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by Detroit Must Die on Jun 16, 2011 2:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Let him try it out for a year and then Gillis can chase him when Peg wanders into whatever the fuck our division will be called then
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 2:44 PM PDT up reply actions
"Western Canada + Minnesota"
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Poor Minnesota.
Everyone forgets about them.
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I don't
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by MrsWaachcast on Jun 16, 2011 1:56 PM PDT up reply actions
start the pile on...
…way to go dirk, cite derek zona as a lone voice of reason about something that happened in vancouver. Cuz, u know, he’s a completely unbiased opinion. I could puke. Awesome.
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these parts made me laugh the most
Inner Me: Yeah but there’s no chance you’ll get Parise.
I know that asshole, I’m just thinking outloud.
Inner Me: You realize you’re calling yourself an asshole when you do that?
I hate you.
…
Inner Me: After that Cup run, you’ll never get your wish to see Vigneault steel-toed out into oncoming traffic.
No I won’t. Maybe he’ll wander into traffic on his own.
…
Inner Me: So now what?
I’m going to shave this shit off my face. I thought mine looked terrible until I saw Bergeron’s last night. How does that man eat with that upper lip monster hanging out there?
Inner Me: Mom will be psyched. She hated that look on you.
Good point, I’ll keep it then.
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by ahnfire on Jun 16, 2011 1:44 PM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Definitely a rec for me.
Lord knows I’ve had those conversations before as well.
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Made me laugh
And smile at the same time.
So long hockey: until next season.
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Are you related to Rudy? He talks to himself alot too and never makes any sense. :)
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 2:06 PM PDT up reply actions
You're never alone
when you talk to yourself.
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Anyone know if B-mac
from the TEAM 1040 is ok? Heard them give well wishes to him and his family on the radio before Pratt & Taylor came on.
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I just came back from my lunchtime walk around downtown and the place is looking great – city crews worked through the night to clean up the streets and this morning regular citizens took to the sidewalks armed with brooms to help the clean-up. If it wasn’t for a few boarded windows you would never have known that last night happened. Well done Vancouverites, it’s heartening to see that the actions of a mindless few haven’t dampened the pride most of us feel for our great city.
Definitely great to see folks in Canucks jerseys and t-shirts out there helping clean up
Just goes to show that true fans weren’t the ones doing moronic things last night.
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by april o'neil on Jun 16, 2011 5:04 PM PDT up reply actions
This just in
That quote from his agent sucks.
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Won’t load for me. What was the quote and context?
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"I’ve been telling Cody to stay with it, stay positive and that he would score the Cup winning goal," said Hodgson’s agent Ritch Winter from Philadelphia Thursday where he was shuttling another client Ilya Bryzgalov around Philadelphia and the Flyers practice facility where a meeting with Ed Snider and their coaches was evidently going to take place. "It didn’t work out that way and I’m waiting for things to cool down before we talk. It’s clearly going to be a challenging situation there."
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 2:23 PM PDT up reply actions
It could be TG just being TG too...here are more quotes on Vigneault/Hodgson
Further it’s abundantly clear coach Alain Vigneault is not one of his big fans as the youngster always the last possible option and was repeatedly slotted into situations seemingly designed to make him fail. And when the predictable occurred his ice time shrank and shrank before he finally disappeared from view entirely in the final. Had the Canucks won the Cup, his name would not have been included unless the team had made a special petition to have it added.
In his final shifts, Hodgson was clearly far more concerned with not making a mistake than he was with making a play. It was all he could do to safely dump the puck into the offensive zone and scurry to the bench keeping his shifts under 30 seconds whenever possible. Contrast this with how the Sedins broke into the league in their first year in 2000-01 when they played 82 games and never missed a power play.
It isn’t known whether there is anything personal between the coach and the player, but one suspects not yet. But it’s clear Vigneault had no confidence in Hodgson this year and it’s not really clear how that’s going to change in the near future if the Canucks keep the coach on. Further, who knows if any of Vancouver’s pending free agents have any problem with the coach which may impact their desire to stay in Vancouver. It’s clear he’s not the most popular coach in Vancouver history with his players although it’s not likely it’s yet reached the point where it was in Montreal. In his final days with the Habs, the players called Vigneault ’Mr. Gant ’ among themselves, short for Mr. Arrogant.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 2:24 PM PDT up reply actions
Thanks
Definitely less veiled comments than in the past. Don’t like the sound of it either.
Unless he (Winter) is trying to find a way to pressure the team to move him immediately up the roster, this is not good news.
Everything is also fresh, so maybe the summer will be a good cooling off period for everyone. Myself included. :)
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FFS
Here we go. Rich Winters seems to be one that like the media in his business, but I ahve my doubts on him being tossed aside by AV.
Tony and his AV hating ways aside, he was nothing but complimentary to the kid when he was in. Certainly not the first, or only coach to not go with a rookie in huge games.
Guys are going to talk up their players. The “clearly going to be challenging” does not fill one with confidence, but really, Tony is at his passive aggressive best in THAT article.
Caution folks. Like everything else with CoHo, the reality and the speculation rarely mesh.
And if he does want to go, well, no offense kid, but whatever. He will bring something good in return, and he is one rookie, you know?
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Right, like I said, that could be the author doing that thing we love so often.
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 2:39 PM PDT up reply actions
a rookie isn't the coach's first choice
in the stanley cup final?
Go figure.
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notafullcolon CS: Well obviously I meant we were snorting blow off hookers at the time of the goal
Unless it’s Chris Tanev and the other choice is Keith Ballard of course.
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by Tink for Nucks on Jun 17, 2011 9:34 AM PDT up reply actions
Ballard plays the left side, we got a bunch of those. He does not want, or is just not that good….on the right.
Tanev plays the right all the time.
Besides, his calm, and mostly simple mistake free game, is more what Rome did/does.
I really don’t see it as an either/or. Rather, a strategic replacement, and coaches do those all the time.
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I hope that Ballard can take the summer to get used to our system and that he and Tanev will make a great duo next year. Remember how god awful Alberts was when he got here? Sometimes the adjustment from the East just takes a while. It’s a different game here, and with Ballard coming from Florida he had 2 things that were going against him:
1) playing in the East – slower game
2) playing for Florida – no winning mentality, no competitiveness in their game
*I am ignoring the obvious Higgins detail, forwards can be different
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 10:18 AM PDT up reply actions
don't forget
also he came injured & couldn’t get healthy and these likely affected his conditioning too.
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notafullcolon CS: Well obviously I meant we were snorting blow off hookers at the time of the goal
Yikes
TG likes to exaggerate but yikes. AV needs to go. But of course I say that every year. Great post Yankee. You’re on the short list of people that cheered me up today.
It's all hot bishes, naps, and dance parties
hey you say it every year too? hooray!
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 3:27 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I did after last year
and would have if we had lost to the Hawks. And maybe he will lose the room next year I don’t know. But I think now you give him one more year to get it done. Unless the GM knows something we don’t.
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I don't know
I’m torn on AV. He just doesn’t seem to be able to adapt to tight checking defensive teams, which is the Canucks kryptonite
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we should have been able to destroy them
with all the talent we have. The problem is, AV loves tight checking too and is totally averse to deploying our offence, so games just turn into checking games.
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notafullcolon CS: Well obviously I meant we were snorting blow off hookers at the time of the goal
really?
and is totally averse to deploying our offence, so games just turn into checking games.
you really think that? We were the highest scoring team in the league…with the fewest goals against. AV has no problem doing both. At the end of the day it comes down to one thing: our scorers couldn’t score.
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Highest scoring team yes, but not against tight checking/defensive teams
Both the Nashville and Boston series we faced a very tight checking/defensive team with a great goaltender and a defensive system they stuck to. And both times we struggled mightily to score goals.
I don’t think that’s just a coincidence. Look at how we got played by Boston/Nashville/Montreal in the regular season too – we couldn’t score many goals against them, or get any kind of forecheck going a lot of times.
And their systems aren’t some sort of miracle system that works against everyone – the Ducks put up a ton of goals on Nashville in the first round and Tampa put up a ton of goals on the Bruins in the ECF. And both those teams weren’t as high scoring as us.
Sure, the scorers couldn’t score, but is that them fading away in two different series, or is it because they are getting stymied by a certain style of defense?
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
and
why couldn’t they score? Because AV tried to match checking with checking, and capitalize on mistakes with quick breakouts, which is what most tight checking teams do.
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notafullcolon CS: Well obviously I meant we were snorting blow off hookers at the time of the goal
No
I don’t agree. I think we got done in by injuries. But the team learned huge lessons I think about the playoffs what a grind it is etc. I agree with Semi though about the tight checking teams. Our only answer to that was Kes and when he got broken we had no other answer
Everyone has injuries, Boston has their fair share too. The players didn’t use it as an excuse, and we shouldn’t either. Boston won, and that is really all it boils down to in the end. History doesn’t remember second place, but we can remember this magic ride.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 10:12 AM PDT up reply actions
Except
When they don’t. I can look up the specific story if you like, but I read yesterday somewhere how “Boston got through the playoffs relatively injury free”.
Sometimes the best team is the healthiest one at the end of the marathon.
Not using injuries as an excuse, but the Canucks were far more affected by their owies than the Bruins
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I haven’t heard too much about the Boston injuries, but Horton was out, Savard has been out for months and he’s their best playmaker. I wouldn’t discount those players. Our players may have been playing hurt in the finals, but we weren’t doing too bad after San Jose, then we let Boston pummel us when we should have been the more aggressive team.
Personally, I feel like it cheapens Boston’s win by saying “but the canucks had so many injuries”. I wouldn’t want anyone taking away something from our win, and I’m not going to take away from Bostons’. They won, bottom line.
Not everyone feels that way, but that’s my opinion.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 10:33 AM PDT up reply actions
Cheapen?
Heck no. I said in the first thing I wrote that I thought they were that “little bit better” all over the ice. Because they were.
You are right about the most aggressive team though. The one that was won every game.
But pointing to Savvy is something like us pointing to Salo, you know? He had already missed a lot of time over the last few, and he got replaced in the system by different guys than him all over the ice. We talk of the good moves GMMG made? Well, Peter C made some pretty sweet ones with Kelly, and Horton, and others.
I was in no way trying to cheapen their win. But it is not that way to mention injuries at the end of a Stanley Cup Finals. When I was younger, a few of us would kick in 20 bucks and call the number of undisclosed injuries.
But of course injuries are not an excuse. KesLORD said so in his Final Sermon of 2010/11. Thus it is, and is so…
;-)
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I didn’t mean that I thought you were cheapening their win. I meant if I look at injuries, I feel like I’m doing it. That’s why I said everyone has their own opinion on this.
I am really curious to see an injury list though. I’ve only heard of a couple of them so far. What these guys do to their bodies to play this game is unbelievable.
I admire this team to no end.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 11:13 AM PDT up reply actions
There's a Province article on one of these threads
Edler-two broken fingers
Kesler-groin AND hip muscle
Higgins-foot never heeled and probably broken from a Weber shot in Rd 2. (did he miss a game from then on?)
Ehrhoff-getting his shoulder shot up so he could play ever since the McGinn hit.
There’s another one or two as well. Hank never said anything I think, and kesler still stares daggers at anyone that asks how his injuries affected him.
But yeah. Just Edler’s. I’d be home trying to heel, and probably quite taken aback by two broken fingers.
He just taped em up and played on…
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aside from what I have heard previously about higgins, kesler, erhoff etc
GMMG stated today that Bieksa had a bruised MCL (didn’t say when it occured I don’t think) and Hank had a back injury since rnd 2
Ahh, thanks guys. I knew about the Province article, but I was wondering about some of the other guys that seemed to be labouring. It was tough to watch Kes sometimes because you knew how badly he wanted it, but his body just wouldn’t let him do what he wanted.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 1:05 PM PDT up reply actions
The interview
on CDC today, I think there was 10 or so…
Yikes! They all sounded serious enough that they would have been off in the regular season. The one on Juice was the stick from Peverly ( one that I will be pissed about not being called until I die )
Had to be. That is right where the mcl is that got bruised.
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I don't know Section
we failed against a less talented team in the SCF. True, there were some injuries to key guys, but that excuse only holds water so much.
Consider that the team was completely unable to make adjustments to their game against Boston when it was clear it wasn’t working from game 1 (i.e. how to score) including line adjustments, that AV made critical in-game coaching errors (pulling Lu in game 3 maybe? timeouts… at all?), Julien was able to really rally his players into playing together, while ours seemed disconnected from the game and each other at times, and that he systematically destroyed Keith Ballard’s confidence to the point that he was dropped below Alberts and Tanev on the depth chart, and you have to wonder about his abilities. I’m not saying he shouldn’t be lauded for good work, and that some of this isn’t on the players, but c’mon… the coach is ultimately responsible for not getting the most out of his team and lets be honest, this is one fucking good hockey team.
AV is a great preparation coach. He devises good strategies and game plans. But I’m not sold on his ability to manage games as they unfold and change his tactics mid game or even mid-series.
Not sure whether or not we keep AV, but I’m not loving him right now.
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notafullcolon CS: Well obviously I meant we were snorting blow off hookers at the time of the goal
Seems to me that
Watching the other guys hoist the Stanley Cup in your barn in Game 7 has to be a pretty good learning experience.
Has anybody crunched the numbers on teams coming back from SCF losses to win the next year? Pittsburgh I know, but anybody else?
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by Tink for Nucks on Jun 17, 2011 9:41 AM PDT up reply actions
Off the top of my head
I wouldn’t say the next year, but to my mind:
NJD: 1994 lost in ECF to NYR, 1995 SC Champions
Col/Que: 1995 lost in EC semi-finals, 1996 SC Champions
Det: 1995 lost in SCF to NJD, 1997/1998 SC Champions
Dal: post-1995 in WC to Col/Det, 1999 SC Champions
Car: 2002 lost SCF to Det, 2006 SC Champions
Ana: 2003 lost SCF to NJD, 2007 SC Champions
Pit: 2008 lost SCF to Det, 2009 SC Champions
Chi: 2009 lost WCF to Det, 2010 SC Champions
So I won’t say the chances of coming back next year is certain. But if the core to win is there, young enough, they will be back in SCF.
by nucklinBadger on Jun 17, 2011 11:05 AM PDT up reply actions
Know Hope
(jeez, the first time I typed that I did the homonym “No Hope”. Yikes.)
But really, there is a lot of room for hope the Canucks’ chances going forward.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 17, 2011 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
The same can be said
for San Jose and Tampa.
I’d say we have a good chance of getting back if, and its a big if, AV develops a bit more as a coach, Gillis can get a second line scorer to take the heat of the Sedins and help Kesler and we avoid so many injuries.
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notafullcolon CS: Well obviously I meant we were snorting blow off hookers at the time of the goal
That was good run
That sucks that you guys lost and all. BUT YOU WENT TO GAME 7 OF THE STANLEY FUCKIN’ CUP!!! That may not be technically a “successful season”, but its something to be damn proud of. I hope you guys sign Ehrhoff instead of Bieksa so we can get a chance at him. That would be awesome. Anyways, this season and series was nothing to hang your heads about. In the end, the better team won. That was a fun, dramatic series and even though I was pulling for Vancouver, it was still entertaining. Congrats on making it so far.
"You can't stop him, you can only hope to contain Kent Huskins!" - Randy Hahn 2/13/11
Canucks fans pretty much have to keep telling ourselves this. It IS a technically successful season, but just doesn’t feel like it when you’re 1 game away from the Stanley Cup.
"I think he has to be happy with his career, he did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." - Henrik Sedin on Mike Millbury
(Dallascanuck, M.D., the real kind, not the Mark Recchi, M.D. kind)
by dallascanuck on Jun 16, 2011 2:31 PM PDT up reply actions
to me an unsuccessful season would be not making the playoffs
Being the President’s Trophy winners and breaking how many NHL and Canuck’s records during the regular season definitely makes it successful. You just didn’t quite make it to the prize at the end.
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
I don't know
With an elite roster like that, the expectation is a SC, fair or not that’s what makes a successful team. Personally, I agree with that philosophy
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by pooponastick on Jun 16, 2011 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
it's amazing...
that the free agent period is only 2 weeks away!
waaahhhhhhhhhhhh
Thanks Yankee
Great post. I can’t really wrap my head around what happened or where the team will go from here. I guess at some point it will be consolation that 28 other teams ended their seasons worse off than us – Game 7 of the SCF is a hell of an accomplishment. Some initial attempts to think about next year:
- Luongo, for all his faults, was good enough to help the team to Game 7 of the SCF. He deserves one more chance, and quite frankly is a way better option than anyone else we could have. One more year of near-heartattacks though
- Hodgson – Would love to see him get a legit shot next year, either on the 2nd or 3rd line
- Ehrhoff and Salo are goners, I believe. Like ’em both, but we need Bieksa back and they are both too inconsistent
- I think next year is make-or-break for MayRay, which will be tough coming off that injury. Kelser can anchor the best 2nd-line in the league if he has scoring help
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Damn
I need to pick up my slack
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So here it is my ideal team for next year....this is if I was the GM and every move I wanted to pull off got pulled off
CAPGEEK.COM CAP CALCULATOR
FORWARDS
Daniel Sedin ($6.100m) / Henrik Sedin ($6.100m) / Alexandre Burrows ($2.000m)
Mason Raymond ($2.550m) / Ryan Kesler ($5.000m) / Zach Parise ($5.125m)
Andrew Ladd ($2.350m) / Manny Malhotra ($2.500m) / Jannik Hansen ($1.000m)
Raffi Torres ($1.500m) / Maxim Lapierre ($0.900m) / Victor Oreskovich ($0.775m)
Cody Hodgson ($1.666m)
DEFENSEMEN
Dan Hamhuis ($4.500m) / Kevin Bieksa ($4.500m)
Alexander Edler ($3.250m) / Chris Tanev ($0.900m)
Keith Ballard ($4.200m) / Steve Montador ($1.850m)
Aaron Rome ($0.750m)
GOALTENDERS
Cory Schneider ($0.900m) / Eddie Lack ($0.900m)
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(these totals are compiled without the bonus cushion)
SALARY CAP: $59,400,000; CAP PAYROLL: $59,316,666; BONUSES: $1,060,000
CAP SPACE (22-man roster): $83,334
I went with Montador because he is fairly durable, from Vancouver, and I figured he would settle in right around the 2 million dollar mark. Obviously this was is a pipe dream since several of the people that I got rid of aren’t really movable in real life. But that’s why it is called rosterbation.
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:14 PM PDT reply actions
Also Lappy didn't get a raise
cause I forgot. But I was generous with Torres so they can split the 500,000 dollar raise I gave Rafi.
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:18 PM PDT up reply actions
The Devils
got him to replace Marty and sent us Parise back. Picks were involved. Got some of those picks back when I moved Sammuelson.
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:29 PM PDT up reply actions
Nope
but in my fantasy world Marty retired and Parise wants out and Kesler convinces him to come demand a trade to Vancouver.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Trade demands like the prima donnas in the footballing world. I love it!
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by Vancouverguy on Jun 17, 2011 9:56 AM PDT up reply actions
that goalie tandem
will be like LA’s. Talented but inexperienced, and overall will not be able to do the job.
In your opinion
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:24 PM PDT up reply actions
And in my opinion
we have the best young goalie in the world not named Rask. And a guy who has been the best goalie at every level of hockey he has played. And when he gets his chance to be a starter he will seize it. Niemi didn’t have experience and he got it done. Luongo has lots of experience in the playoffs. And he didn’t. What’s my point? You can’t really predict who will perform well enough to go all the way. But you can save money going with CS a guy who has as much promise as any young goalie anywhere.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:28 PM PDT up reply actions
you mean
the guy that cost us game 6 in Chicago with his inexperience? Or the guy that almost cost us another goal when he got put in in game 6 against boston by making the same mistake? That guy?
I think schnieds is the shit, but he needs another season in the big show before we hang our collective hat on him. In my opinion.
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Yeah well if he was the starter next year
he’d have 60 games experience going into the playoffs. You may have noticed he also stood on his head in those games and the only goals that beat him were easily correctable mistakes or unstoppable shots. Yeah that is a guy I would hang my hat on. Especially at 900 bucks next year.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:33 PM PDT up reply actions
wow parise, Ladd and no luongo? this is how you rosterbate ladies and gentlemen!
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by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 3:25 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions 1 recs
And it did actually make me feel slightly better
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"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:32 PM PDT up reply actions
Better than the 17 dollars worth of McDonalds last night
and the 200 dollar watch I bought today.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
17 dollars?! 200 dollars?!?!
High roller…who you tryin to impress?
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 16, 2011 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
Is anyone impressed
by someone who eats 17 bucks worth of McDicks?
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"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:42 PM PDT up reply actions
other
large people?
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The gal or guy
who owns the McDonalds I ate at?
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
Nucks Misconduct's Prodigal Son, Chief Curmudgeon, and Chief Hunk.
by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:54 PM PDT up reply actions
Homeless people?
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
More surprised really. And saddened I guess.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 16, 2011 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Sorry, this may seem like I’m being rude, I’m not, I just really hate McDonalds.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 16, 2011 4:04 PM PDT up reply actions
Lots of people do
others, like me, know full well what we are getting and love the way it tastes anyway. Plus iced coffees for a buck? Can’t say no to that.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
I’ve heard their iced coffees are really good. Gonna have to take a gander one day.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 8:41 AM PDT up reply actions
I LOVE OFFSEASON
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
This is nice
But complete Fantasy land. All you need is Ricardo Monteblan and a midget…
Yeah I know
it is fantasy land. That’s why I said it was my fantasy.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 5:11 PM PDT up reply actions
Luuuuu
I know we are stuck with him.How do you FIX him???
I don't think
he needs to be “fixed”. Just maybe needs some tweaks to his mental preparation.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
Nucks Misconduct's Prodigal Son, Chief Curmudgeon, and Chief Hunk.
by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions
so how
do you do that?
I want Lu back, and I really can’t stomach the blamers, but I’d rather avoid seeing the brainfart games next year.
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notafullcolon CS: Well obviously I meant we were snorting blow off hookers at the time of the goal
I have no idea
but someone in that locker room between the coaches must see ways that he can improve his focus and demeanor.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 17, 2011 10:44 AM PDT up reply actions
He needs to find a good sports psychologist who can help him block out the bad stuff. He also needs to find a good PR person who will teach him not to say stupid things and try to be funny because it just gets a negative spin on it anyways.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 10:54 AM PDT up reply actions
Or since he is near the pinnacle, study history and learn what winners (e.g. Roy, Brodeur, Plante) didn’t do to win the Cup.
Like NEVER start guessing your own technique in the SCF.
Like NEVER giving soundbites to anyone unless you can back it up, even if what you say is true.
by nucklinBadger on Jun 17, 2011 11:08 AM PDT up reply actions
Glad to see
You’re right back on the rosterbation bandwagon Section. Nothing makes the pain go away like a good rosertbation
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
I tried
crysterbaiting last night. But this helps even more.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
Nucks Misconduct's Prodigal Son, Chief Curmudgeon, and Chief Hunk.
by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 5:54 PM PDT up reply actions
DAT PARISE
I WANT IT
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 7:30 PM PDT up reply actions
I wonder
How many bad goals Schneider would be allowed to give up before this city turned on him. Realistically, one season?
by Canuckelhead on Jun 16, 2011 9:11 PM PDT up reply actions
He'll get
20 games.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 9:21 PM PDT up reply actions
Honestly though
Has this city ever had a goalie they were happy with while he played here? Brodeur was before my time but I can’t think of a single one and before someone says McLean let me tell you that he took more than his fair share of criticism to the point where people were saying the reason he wasn’t good anymore was because Jeff Brown slept with his wife! Luongo is a perennial all star and Vezina candidate and he’s the most hated Canuck. He wasn’t the reason we lost that series. At all. We scored 8 goals in 7 games. Granted he let in a few softies but every goalie, including Tim Thomas, let in bad goals. Don’t forget Thomas sat on the bench last year. The fans and the media are driving Luongo out and I don’t think there’s many better goalies in the world. Certainly none that we could get to replace him.
by Canuckelhead on Jun 16, 2011 9:34 PM PDT up reply actions 2 recs
Im happy with Luie
because I remember how it was when Clouts tended goal for us and I’ll never go back to that! NEVER! DO YOU HEAR ME?! YOU WON’T TAKE ME ALIVE! I’LL BURN MY CANUCKS JERSEY AND HOLD MY BREATH TILL I PASS OUT!
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 9:45 PM PDT up reply actions
I hate
Dan CLOUTIER!!! RWAAAAAAAAAAAAR!!!
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It is
literally impossible for me to hate him more than I already do.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 10:02 PM PDT up reply actions
Prurient interest
But I’ve always wondered where the truth lay in the whole Jeff brown sleeping with Kirk mcleans wide debacle.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 16, 2011 10:07 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
True or not
It really says something about the kind of scrutiny a goalie in Vancouver is under when we start looking at a wife’s possible infidelity as a reason our goalies don’t live up to the impossible standards this city has for goaltending. That being said, it seems like that juicy rumor was too loud to not be based in some truth.
by Canuckelhead on Jun 16, 2011 10:14 PM PDT up reply actions
I agree with this assessment
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notafullcolon CS: Well obviously I meant we were snorting blow off hookers at the time of the goal
I wonder
who cares? I don’t think the city “turning” on Luongo (which is debatable) has anything to do with his performance one way or the other and I don’t think it would affect CS.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 11:40 PM PDT up reply actions
Really?
You don’t think there’s a mental aspect to elite level goaltending? You don’t think the constant questioning and second guessing has any affect? Did you not see his face when the guy from PD told him people cheered when he got cheered? Did you miss him slamming his stick on the ice? Have you never seen the man interviewed? He obviously feels he has something to prove. That wasn’t actually my point. My point was, I was wondering how long it will take for you people calling for Roberto to be traded to be calling for CS to be replaced. Good news is Lack is next in line for the goalie firing squad.
by Canuckelhead on Jun 16, 2011 11:50 PM PDT up reply actions
I saw the look on his face
I don’t think it affected his play one way or the other. There certainly is a mental aspect to goal tending. More than most realize. But the fans reaction and what the papers are saying don’t affect elite level players.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 11:53 PM PDT up reply actions
I would disagree
But it’s not just the fans reaction, It’s the constant questioning from the media. It’s the articles that are written, it’s what they hear when they happen to turn on sports radio on the way to practice. There’s a reason some players don’t like to play in Canadian markets and there’s a reason a lot of the players who do end up getting burnt out by it. Why do you think that is if it doesn’t affect them?
by Canuckelhead on Jun 17, 2011 12:00 AM PDT up reply actions
It isn't the content of the questions
or the content of the fans opinions that burns them out. It’s the frequency of it all. It is constantly having to deal with media and fans wherever you go. Do you honestly think a goalie who makes 10 million dollars, has a gold medal, and is widely regarded one of the top 3 or 4 goalies in the world gives two shits what Tony Gallagher or Joe Average Hockey Fan thinks about him or his play? 95% of hockey fans and media don’t even truly know enough about goal tending to really assess his play properly anyway.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
Nucks Misconduct's Prodigal Son, Chief Curmudgeon, and Chief Hunk.
by Section 312 on Jun 17, 2011 12:14 AM PDT up reply actions
Do you honestly think a goalie who makes 10 million dollars, has a gold medal, and is widely regarded one of the top 3 or 4 goalies in the world gives two shits what Tony Gallagher or Joe Average Hockey Fan thinks about him or his play?
In a word. Yes. I know they do and you have as much or more experience with hockey players as I do so you do too. These guys have elite level egos too. One of the things that drives them to work hard enough to get to that elite level is the need for approval and that doesn’t stop when they go pro. In any case, whether it’ he frequency or the content it gets to them and this town kills goalies especially because so much of the position is mental and this town isn’t going to stop killing goalies when Luongo leaves.
by Canuckelhead on Jun 17, 2011 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions
I know that athletes
pretend to be slighted by criticism sometimes and use it as motivation. But they invent that feeling themselves. Sometimes they even invent the slight. But I know from my personal experience that the two things I have been best at in life are the two things that no one can tell me I am not great at. My confidence in myself has never wavered when it comes to those two things no matter what anyone has ever said to me or about me behind my back. And I have never personally met an athlete that takes the time to really actually care what fans or media think. Some of them, not all, care what their coaches, team mates or family think. But that’s a different story.
As for the goalie graveyard thing? It is partly an invention of the media and partly because we just haven’t had very good goalies most of the time. CS is 7 years younger and makes significantly less next year and for at least 2 or 3 years after that. That’s why i want Luongo gone. Not because of performance. I can’t answer for people who want him gone because of his play on the ice.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 17, 2011 3:34 AM PDT up reply actions
CS is 7 years younger and makes significantly less next year and for at least 2 or 3 years after that. That’s why i want Luongo gone. Not because of performance. I can’t answer for people who want him gone because of his play on the ice.
If moving Lu frees up $ for someone who can skate through playoff checks, then I’m all for it.
by nucklinBadger on Jun 17, 2011 11:09 AM PDT up reply actions
Out of pure curiosity...
what are the two things you’re great at?
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
Acquiring currency
pleasuring women.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 8:36 PM PDT up reply actions
At the same time?
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 17, 2011 10:43 PM PDT up reply actions
Is there
any other way?
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 10:52 PM PDT up reply actions
Hahahah, fair enough!
Sounds good.
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
Section
You’re welcome.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 18, 2011 10:33 PM PDT up reply actions
I'm not a
gigolo no matter what CC might think.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
Nucks Misconduct's Prodigal Son, Chief Curmudgeon, and Chief Hunk.
by Section 312 on Jun 20, 2011 10:55 AM PDT up reply actions
it's ok
i already explained to CC that a gigolo is a dude on the other side of that type of transaction.
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
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and just to be clear
I was more concerned with peoples reactions than how those reactions affect the goalie. I just don’t understand why people want to drive Luongo out of town and was wondering how long it would be before Schneider was getting similar treatment. Because you know it’s inevitable.
by Canuckelhead on Jun 17, 2011 1:07 AM PDT up reply actions
I'm sure the last thing you want to read is something from a rival so I'll be brief
First I know it stings but your team had a very impressive season and the finish does not really diminish that. Second there are a great many of you that I like and find insightful and for what happened for you and your city both on and off the ice you are in my thoughts today. Last while I’m sympathetic for you long suffering fans I actually feel worse for your younger fanbase. For the kids who wore their team gear to school everyday and dreamed of hustling like (the great American) Kesler, finish like a Sedin or even took up goaltending I feel for their disappointment and hope it isn’t their lasting hockey memory. As your team’s rival fan I wasn’t rooting for your team but I wasn’t wishing this difficult finish for you either and wish you better days ahead.
Until next season’s playoffs I wish you well. Enjoy your summer.
Kids are easily distracted. They feel really really bad for a short time and then move onto something else. Whereas I while be moving on to a tub of Haagen Daaz tonight. Screw that eating healthy shit I was going back to after the playoffs ended. That can wait for next week.
Thanks for the post though, it was a good season, and a good ride.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 16, 2011 3:34 PM PDT up reply actions
If Michael Grabner walks away next week with the rookie of the year honors, the Ballard deal will be a huge kick in the face (though getting anything for Steve Bernier is still a win).
At LHH we’re pretty much resigned to Grabner not winning the Calder due to a bunch of the NY/LI/NJ PWHA voters not voting. But I think even if Grabner doesn’t win, you have to look at why he’s a contender for it. He led the Islanders with a +13 this year, a team that had to start it’s 5th string goalie for a few games during the season. The biggest reason why I think he should win the Calder is that he had almost no PP points, in comparison to the other two nominees who spent a lot of time on their respective PP units. He instead was called on to work the PK and led the league in SH goals, with his center Frans Nielsen being #2 in the league.
"I bet Calgary wishes they had a backup goalie as their GM" - Pauly C
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
I don’t know, he might still win it. Because your writers were boycotting, it almost gave him some more attention. He should win it though, his stats are great.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 16, 2011 3:39 PM PDT up reply actions
5th string goalie?!
Oh my God…I knew it was bad up there this year (I pulled for you guys from afar as the underdog all year), but holy shit, 5th string?? I feel for you… Nashville went through a huge string of center injurys (after injury, after injury, after…) in the middle of the season. It got so bad that we were making random wingers play center, and started calling up any and everyone we could. Hell, we signed some nobody winger from Milwaukee to a hilariously short two-way contract to play center for us…. yikes. Obviously we made off a little better than the Islanders in the end, but still… those are terrifying moments for any team’s fans. And I think for what they had to work with (again, I didn’t follow closely, but I did pay attention), the Islanders did better than most people expected this year. They certainly surprised everyone in the last few months. Grabner was phenomenal, and I seriously hope he wins the Calder – he certainly deserves it.
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
Islanders goalies
Beginning of the season:
1A Rollie
1B DiPietro
3 Lawson
4 Poulin
5 Koskinen
6 Martin (Who started the season in the ECHL and wasn’t on an Islanders contract)
The Islanders trade Rollie, a week later DP gets Hurt. So it’s Lawson and Poulin, Lawson then gets hurt a few games later and it’s Poulin and Koskinen. Poulin gets hurt in warmups and blows out his knee, so Koskinen starts while Martin gets signed to a 2 way deal and called up to Backup Koskinen. That weekend we claim Nabokov off waivers, he doesn’t show up so we finally trade for Montoya.
So that’s the Isles goalie rotation in a nutshell for last season.
We also had a ton of injuries to our defense. Jurcina never stayed healthy, Eaton and Mottau went down early in the year with season ending injuries. The last 3 games of the season we had College ATOs signed to one off contracts as the 6th defenseman (at the time our AHL defense was thin too due to injuries)
I think the Islanders set a record for man games lost to injury this year.
"I bet Calgary wishes they had a backup goalie as their GM" - Pauly C
Contributor to Lighthouse Hockey not sure if I'm the Sniper or the Enforcer.
By the way
This past 16 or so hours has been very instructive for me about the evils of twitter and it’s redeeming features. Such a vast amount of hate yesterday towards our team. And now being used to quickly spread the news about the real people of Vancouver.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 3:32 PM PDT reply actions
I've pretty well
Become immune and tune out all the not well contained gloating that is going on everywhere
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Its there
Just a lot better distributed and available to everyone’s fingertips.
There is a lot of hate, but that stuff, and its taken me a while to get there, I am really starting to just accept it as noise and make fun of it. Because there is enough hate to make us feel like Anthony Weiner right about now if you don’t. MSM, fans from the known and surprising sources.
He lost too. I think he still will get the kick ass pension…
I have taken to having a super quick trigger finger when i do go to the TV sports sources. Like the stuff about “Luongo’s Insult” being a story for four days, and turned into a “TSN Turning Point” level of bullshit… They are just so fucking lazy. Hey, here’s an easy story, lets take this out of context. It works with our “Canucks=Villains” narrative as well.
Very eye opening.
Nuck’s Misconduct Bishop, 1st United Church of Luongod. LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.........
technology is
a double edged sword. Gotta take the good with the bad.
Reminds me of something else… hmmm.
If I may
suggest that in fact technology is completely neutral. It doesn’t care one way or the other. It’s people, and how people use technology, that results in the double-edged sword you mentioned.
Nuclear energy is fantastic. Nuclear weaponry, not so much, unless you’re the guy lobbing it to turn the enemy into a glass crater.
I hear you...
We are the double edged swords. :)
Was this our best shot?
I guess I’ve heard the common school of thought that says since our core is locked up for the next few years, we just need some minor shuffling via FA & trades and we’ll be right back in the mix.
But as always, a lot of things had to align the right way for us to even make it this far (call it luck, call it clutch performances, call it breaks) and in the end, some things didn’t align the right way and we fell short (injuries, super stars not producing).
"I think he has to be happy with his career, he did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." - Henrik Sedin on Mike Millbury
(Dallascanuck, M.D., the real kind, not the Mark Recchi, M.D. kind)
Hard to say
…and I can’t offer any wisdom because I’m not up on the game and teams like so many here, I just love watching great hockey.
I can say that in a sport like hockey, there are so many moving parts, so many interlinked critical factors, that you just never know what the result will be with any degree of acceptable accuracy. And that’s just for one team. Throw in all of the League teams, each with their own moving parts, and the possibilities become truly quantum. The Coyotes making it to the SCF? Extremely improbable, but you can’t say impossible.
Which brings me to another thought. Maybe GMMG needs to steal the EA simulation software to guide his moves. The sim accurately predicted Bos vs Van early on in the regular season. Then it predicted Bos vs Van again during the playoffs. It was only wrong in two 7-game series between pretty evenly matched teams in Wings vs Sharks and Canucks vs Bruins.
"I think he has to be happy with his career, he did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." - Henrik Sedin on Mike Millbury
(Dallascanuck, M.D., the real kind, not the Mark Recchi, M.D. kind)
by dallascanuck on Jun 16, 2011 4:10 PM PDT up reply actions
Well guess what, the riots are being reported down here after the media not caring about the NHL all season long. Typical media beat up, but it’s certainly not going to do much for Vancouver’s tourism, there was no mention of the thousands of people cleaning up today…
Beat up stories sell more papers.
Journalism used to be about the truth. Then it became about money.
I still love NPR, and some programs on the CBC.
Yeah, unfortunately many people who don’t know much believe them though…
Judging by the comments on: http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/5154250/Vancouver-fans-riot-after-Stanley-Cup-loss
Funny how that story is about 5 times longer than the tiny one they have about Boston winning the cup. And weirdly the story about the photo with the couple kissing is the most viewed story today…
Well, the photo with the couple kissing in the middle of a riot is deserving of some attention. To the non-hockey-loving general public, a once-in-a-generation riot in an otherwise well-behaved city with a great international reputation is much more interesting than a once-a-year hoisting of the Stanley Cup.
"I think he has to be happy with his career, he did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." - Henrik Sedin on Mike Millbury
(Dallascanuck, M.D., the real kind, not the Mark Recchi, M.D. kind)
by dallascanuck on Jun 16, 2011 4:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Maybe I'm crazy
but I am genuinely concerned about that couple. Let’s just say, I really really really hope it was consensual.
Well at least I have 1995, 2000, and 2003. Those were fun.
by dees ees en drama on Jun 16, 2011 5:08 PM PDT up reply actions
It looked very, very consensual
Dramatic and romantic, would make a great cover for one of them Harlequin novels.
GOODBYE LUONGO!
"Judging by the comments"
It’s common knowledge that internet comment sections are full of loud mouth idiots.
Well at least I have 1995, 2000, and 2003. Those were fun.
by dees ees en drama on Jun 16, 2011 5:09 PM PDT up reply actions
See: Any YouTube video. Literally. Any of them.
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
Tourism affected?
but there’s been so many Australians in Victoria these last couple weeks!
Nucks Misconduct writer, queen of inter-blogging etiquette.
I also ramble on Twitter every so often. (now with a new handle!)
"Whether it’s with his mouth or with his stick, Alex Burrows is going to end up pissing you off."
"He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." Henrik Sedin on Mike Milbury.
If I was a NZer trying to decide if I wanted to go to Vancouver or not, not knowing much about it, the coverage of it would have put me off
We don't want you anyway
can’t understand what you are saying. ;-)
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
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by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 5:02 PM PDT up reply actions
tbh, i can hardly tell British and Aussie accents apart, so i keep thinking they’re British at first.
Nucks Misconduct writer, queen of inter-blogging etiquette.
I also ramble on Twitter every so often. (now with a new handle!)
"Whether it’s with his mouth or with his stick, Alex Burrows is going to end up pissing you off."
"He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." Henrik Sedin on Mike Milbury.
WHAT?
They are soooo different
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
dude, i work in a souvenir shop. you’d be surprised.
Nucks Misconduct writer, queen of inter-blogging etiquette.
I also ramble on Twitter every so often. (now with a new handle!)
"Whether it’s with his mouth or with his stick, Alex Burrows is going to end up pissing you off."
"He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." Henrik Sedin on Mike Milbury.
I used to have a British accent and lived in the UK for years when I was a wee lad.
Auzzie is almost night and day
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
You can also tell a British man be the fact that he is fat and has no shirt on even though it’s not that hot
"I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I'm afraid i have something of a mess on my hands."
"There's just so many poorly chosen words in that sentence."
Hilarious
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
Nucks Misconduct's Prodigal Son, Chief Curmudgeon, and Chief Hunk.
by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 11:41 PM PDT up reply actions
Speaking as a Brit ex-pat
who grew up and identifies as Canadian, I can attest to how different the Aussie accents is from the various British accents.
Now Aussie and Kiwi…that can be difficult at times to differentiate. But given enough listening time I can usually get it right. (It also helps to not ask a Kiwi if he’s Australian, or an Aussie if he’s from Enzedd. :-))
well, what i get to see mostly are Americans, so i can usually tell if the accent is coming from at least a Commonwealth country.
Nucks Misconduct writer, queen of inter-blogging etiquette.
I also ramble on Twitter every so often. (now with a new handle!)
"Whether it’s with his mouth or with his stick, Alex Burrows is going to end up pissing you off."
"He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." Henrik Sedin on Mike Milbury.
we actually own a few of them on Government St, i am generally jumping between Garden City and Souvenir Outlet.
Nucks Misconduct writer, queen of inter-blogging etiquette.
I also ramble on Twitter every so often. (now with a new handle!)
"Whether it’s with his mouth or with his stick, Alex Burrows is going to end up pissing you off."
"He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." Henrik Sedin on Mike Milbury.
(checks to make sure NZ is in the Commonwealth……… yes it is, good)
Nucks Misconduct writer, queen of inter-blogging etiquette.
I also ramble on Twitter every so often. (now with a new handle!)
"Whether it’s with his mouth or with his stick, Alex Burrows is going to end up pissing you off."
"He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." Henrik Sedin on Mike Milbury.
Damn right, being asked if you are Australian is pretty insulting! There’s a big difference, but obviously there would be from my perspective
Next time your asked if you're an Aussie...
…and it’s a Canadian doing the asking, ask them if they’re American (or vice versa). :-)
Serious question
what is insulting about it? Not everyone is an expert of regional accents and dialects. And I hate to break it to you but just like there are a lot of similarities between us and Americans from the outside looking in there are lots between Aussies and Kiwis from afar.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
Nucks Misconduct's Prodigal Son, Chief Curmudgeon, and Chief Hunk.
by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 11:44 PM PDT up reply actions
yeah I have always wondered why people are insulted by it. I have been mistaken for an American a million times when I was living overseas. Doesn’t bother me (but I don’t have a raging hate on for the US as some friends that I have do). When I lived in the Philippines everyone thought I was American, I accepted that. Lol when I lived in London my friends and coworkers teased me about it all the time (when we went bowling they put my name as Yankee Doodle, and they nicknamed me Yoosa (USA spelled phonetically) and I just played along :) Doesn’t bother me. Though I did also have a fair number of Brits ask me if I was from Australia – yeah no idea where that came from lol
When I first started living overseas it bothered me
but I got used to it and understood that it’s really hard to tell the difference.
I had a British co-worker in Viet Nam who had a trick when he met someone with a “North American” accent: he would ask what part of Canada they were from. Why? An American won’t be offended and a Canadian will be pleased by such a question.
Unfortunately doesn’t work with NZers and Aussies….
It’s just a bit of a joke really, we sort of have a love-hate relationship with Australia, I guess it comes from being a ‘little brother’ to them and them historically beating us in sports (bar rugby). It’s really tongue in cheek, as soon as you see something like the earthquakes here or the floods there we’re more than happy to help the other country…
As a Hawks fan and someone who lived in Boston for several years
I wasn’t cheering for you guys. But as a Chicago sports fan I also know a lot about the misery of not getting the championship you’ve waited your whole life for. Your time will certainly come, and given how dominant this team was throughout most of the regular season and post-season, I’m sure it will be sooner rather than later. Congratulations on a great run, and we’ll see you next year.
Also, as much as I have disliked Kesler in the past, I have to say that this post-season he earned a lot of respect. He’s the heart and soul of your team and I was thoroughly impressed with both his play and the way he handled himself off the ice as well. Also thought it was really impressive of the Sedins to stick around after the game yesterday to make sure that all of the reporters who wanted to talk to them could. Really cool, and guys to be proud of.
Cheers
Kesler took a big step forward this year. Just need to get him some wingers now…
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"Pucks are awful little things" - Passive Voice.
by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 9:05 PM PDT up reply actions
Sidney
Crosby.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions
hansen
Hansen can step up alongside Kesler or the twins as he sparingly in the regular season.
I like Hansen as a rockstar thirdliner, but he has no finish to be a first or second liner. Maybe one day, but we need a guy with super star finish for the top two lines. We don’t really have a pure “sniper” and I think it would really help us going forward.
I am in no way dissing Hansen. He and Tanev are going to be absolute studs.
a ginger ball hockey player... no wonder I'm a Canucks fan
We don’t really have a pure "sniper" and I think it would really help us going forward.
Yes. Or at least a really good TWF for Kesler’s wing
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
BART? So do you live in the Bay Area?
I'm warning you! I have ADHD and I know how to use it!!!
Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
THAT IS NABOKOV IN NET NOT NITTYMAKISHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!
San Jose: Being Kept save from ferocious enemies by the Sharks and Earthquakes since 91 and 96.
You didn’t know he did?
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
no
I'm warning you! I have ADHD and I know how to use it!!!
Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
THAT IS NABOKOV IN NET NOT NITTYMAKISHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!
San Jose: Being Kept save from ferocious enemies by the Sharks and Earthquakes since 91 and 96.
by Diamondback15 on Jun 16, 2011 5:34 PM PDT up reply actions
Great, now I have someone to take my frustration out on!
jk
But seriously, you should get together with us Sharks fans and we can all be miserable together.
I'm warning you! I have ADHD and I know how to use it!!!
Good job Giants, now win 3 more world series titles and then you just might be worthy of being mentioned in the same league as the A's.
THAT IS NABOKOV IN NET NOT NITTYMAKISHUTUP!!!!!!!!!!
San Jose: Being Kept save from ferocious enemies by the Sharks and Earthquakes since 91 and 96.
by Diamondback15 on Jun 16, 2011 5:36 PM PDT up reply actions
I’m not sure he hangs out with Sharks fans :)
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
I don't know. It was hard to get too much hate going with you guys
The Hawks seemed to take up so much of it, and the Preds team were annoying in the “diving” narrative to cover up their doing it to the Ducks last round…but most their fans were fun, the city looked to just accept the game without the hate, so there was none back.
By the time we got to the Sharks, there were ample things to get upset about ( Eager’s nutso thingy, Welly’s previous comments, etc )
But it was not so bad considering the stakes. Must be because you guys are fellow West Coaster. So, would SJ ever riot if they got so close? LOL
Nuck’s Misconduct Bishop, 1st United Church of Luongod. LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.........
The only city in the Bay Area that riots is Oakland. SF & SJ are happy to leave it at that too. :)
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
I was there for the second Oscar Grant riot. It was all idiot anarchists from Berkeley which, as I’m told, is pretty standard for the area.
'Nucks Misconduct - Housing Swedish Millionaires Since 2000.
"Pucks are awful little things" - Passive Voice.
by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 9:07 PM PDT up reply actions
Yep. That it is. I prefer my side of the bay anyways. I’m a proud Peninsula snob. That and I can walk around at night without worrying bout stray bullets. :)
GO SHARKS!
Ever get the feeling we are on a collision course with reality?
"They who would give up an essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" -- Benjamin Franklin (see profile for more info on this quote)
Well that’s always a bonus when choosing housing locations
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Ha, I don’t really know too many Sharks fans. I’m not invited to their parties. I don’t know the secret handshake (I did the chompy thing but just got laughed at) ;)
'Nucks Misconduct - Housing Swedish Millionaires Since 2000.
"Pucks are awful little things" - Passive Voice.
by Yankee Canuck on Jun 16, 2011 9:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Misery loves company
:(
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Not to dwell on what happened last night
But I feel so sorry for you guys in Vancouver. Even though I am a Flyers fan, I was really rooting for the Canucks to win in the Final.(besides, Canada is due). Nevertheless, it really dismayed me to see a bunch of fucking imbeciles deface your city like that. I never have and never will understand why certain individuals feel the need to deface their city after all significant sporting defeat.
Nevertheless, it is good to see that the majority of Vancouverites are disgusted with it and are doing their best to clean up the city. .
I am 100% sure that Vancouver Canucks and the city as a whole will bounce back from this and come back stronger.
I blog about overall sports here(thewholetake.tumblr.com) and Philly sports there(thebeststopontheacelaexpress.tumblr.com). Have at it.
Thanks for the support..it was very subdued in the city today. I sure hope that a lesson or two has been learned.
"Either you give it right back or the next thing you know everyone and his brother will be trying you on for size." - Doug Harvey
by reggiedunlop on Jun 16, 2011 6:49 PM PDT up reply actions
So...should we sign him up?
According to reports on MLive.com and the Detroit Free Press on Thursday, Jagr’s agent Petr Svoboda has put out feelers to five NHL teams – the Red Wings, Pittsburgh Penguins, Washington Capitals, New York Rangers and Montreal Canadiens – about the possibility of the future Hall of Famer signing on as a free agent.
Looks like he wants to play in the East. Except the understandable Detroit there
Has he ever played out West?
Nuck’s Misconduct Bishop, 1st United Church of Luongod. LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.........
but Detroit may be moving to the East - right?
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
not necessarily
Supposedly, the West teams like them for the road draw. Perhaps you lose a Nashville or a Columbus instead.
Nuck’s Misconduct Bishop, 1st United Church of Luongod. LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.........
Have they finalized
who is going where and all that?
Not until next year
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
"You can't come in my kitchen, kick my dog, and take a box full of ballpoints! Your ass must be crazy!"
Thanks Yankee
Good read after the disappointment of the game and the stunningly moronic debacle that followed on the streets. Much like ‘94, I did not care to watch any tv afterwards and as a result didn’t realize the scope of the rioting until this morning. Still can’t believe that it happened. Again.
It was a tough game to watch, but I was proud to see our band of walking-wounded ’Nucks give everything they had left in the tank. And finally, cheers to the true fans of hockey who stayed in the arena long enough to watch the Stanley Cup presentation to the Bruins and give a loud round of applause to Tim Thomas for his well-deserved Conn Smythe win.
"Either you give it right back or the next thing you know everyone and his brother will be trying you on for size." - Doug Harvey
Noticed this moron wears a 17 shirt
Occurs to me that if I was Ryan Kesler or anybody else whose name and number were used in that way I would be really pissed off.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 16, 2011 7:19 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
He should fucking burn his jersey
he doesn’t deserve to wear it.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 7:32 PM PDT up reply actions
All of these goons will be identified, located and charged
Kesler can have a word with them in jail if he likes, maybe they can put all the “number 17’s” in the same cell block for convenience.
GOODBYE LUONGO!
Not usually one for vigilante justice
But I like the idea of that. Of course those wearing 22 and 33 would probably just get a stern talking to and a deeply disappointed look. Any 3s would rue the day.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 16, 2011 10:03 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
14s would leave
with bite marks and a confused look trying to understand the accent.
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
'Nucks Misconduct Sr. VP of Inappropriateness and Questionable Conduct, second director of immaturity. My twitter account
by Twitchy2010 on Jun 16, 2011 10:27 PM PDT up reply actions
Probably a few bald patches too.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 8:55 AM PDT up reply actions
Went downtown today
destruction is extensive. Signed the boarded up windows with “CANUCKS 2012!”.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 7:33 PM PDT reply actions
Nice :)
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
destruction is considerable
however the outpouring of help and support is amazing and outstrips the destruction.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 8:37 PM PDT up reply actions
The whole riot thing
Makes me think maybe I don’t want my husband to apply for that job in Burnaby…
meh
It was pretty quiet out here in Burnaby! :)
Olympic convert hockey n00b
♥Canucks ♥
(and ♥Coyotes♥)
ha!
I just got a job in Burnaby! Burnaby is really safe, far from any carnage in the downtown core.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 8:25 PM PDT up reply actions
well I may be asking for good areas to apt look if he gets it
since all I know is stay away from E Van and Surrey.
Like I said I don’t know. someone just told me that I should stay away from E Van. Obviously a lot has to come down to where you can afford and what you are looking for.
I have a 10 year old so schools will be a big thing for me.I thought maybe N Van but Husband is saying commute would be horrid. Have no idea and it’s only if he gets that particular job so…
East Van is good
basically the only place you need to maybe avoid is E. Hastings and Main. But I doubt you’ll be living or working there.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 8:52 PM PDT up reply actions
I live in East Van
And work close to Main and Hastings. Wouldn’t want to live or work right, there but I love where I live and work.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 16, 2011 9:44 PM PDT via mobile up reply actions
I'd like to live on Commercial
close enough to the city but not in the thick of it.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 9:46 PM PDT up reply actions
I live on commercial
in east van, it’s fine but every neighbourhood has some unsavory elements in the city. I’ll tell you this, I feel 1000 times safer in Vancouver than I ever did in any of the suburbs, and i’ve lived in a few of them. The city has more panhandler, but less roving gangs of toughs…that simple. The riot was not in a residential area, no need to worry about that kinda thing. I lived in north van for a few years, and while it was safe enough, I was always afraid to go to the neighbourhood convenience store at night…just a bunch of tough guys always hanging out…don’t see that so much in Vancouver proper. Like I said, in the city it’s the bums…and the bums are basically 100% harmless. Even the crazy ones. Favorite part of the lower mainland to live was the west end, but it’s an anthill. I have friends with teenage kids in coquitlam (never lived there myself) and they seem to like it.
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
'Nucks Misconduct Sr. VP of Inappropriateness and Questionable Conduct, second director of immaturity. My twitter account
by Twitchy2010 on Jun 16, 2011 10:32 PM PDT up reply actions
North Van toughs?
Don’t you mean rich kids driving their parents BMVs like Nascar racers?
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 10:37 PM PDT up reply actions
that's west van
north van is actually not unlike east van, except replace the first nations folk with persians. It’s not a rich part of town, but no lower east side…
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
'Nucks Misconduct Sr. VP of Inappropriateness and Questionable Conduct, second director of immaturity. My twitter account
by Twitchy2010 on Jun 16, 2011 10:48 PM PDT up reply actions
North Van is both
Its an Upper and Lower Lonsdale type thing. I used to run a movie theatre in West Van. You got it right there though.
Some of the scarier types I met over there were the faux tough Persians in daddy’s Beemers, but there was a few of them from the North Van side too…
Nuck’s Misconduct Bishop, 1st United Church of Luongod. LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.........
I will say this
the source of all bad drivers in Vancouver is not Richmond… it is North Van.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 10:55 PM PDT up reply actions
Middle Eastern rich boys
Nope dealt with that enough, don’t want that…
I would rather deal with gang bangin African Americans any day over that.
Regardless of race or culture,the worst kids I have ever dealt with are the ones who were basically raised that they are somehow above the rules and the world owes them b/c they are mummy and daddy’s special boy
exactly
entitled assholes
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
I live in east van too
and I like it a lot but if you’re moving here and looking which area to live in i’d have to recommend kits. It’s close to everything and you’re walking distance to a beach. Kits beach itself isn’t fantastic (unless you like to play basketball like me) but all the little beaches between kits and Jericho are a great place to clear your head. In my opinion living in Kits gives you the ultimate Vancouver experience. That being said Vancouver is a super safe town besides the downtown east side, whoever warned you about east van must have meant there but that’s not east van.
by Canuckelhead on Jun 16, 2011 10:39 PM PDT up reply actions
I'll tell u one thing
i’ve been robbed only twice in the 17 years i’ve lived here…both times in different houses in kits…
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
'Nucks Misconduct Sr. VP of Inappropriateness and Questionable Conduct, second director of immaturity. My twitter account
by Twitchy2010 on Jun 16, 2011 10:49 PM PDT up reply actions
Lived in Gastown for 5 years too
And it was safer in the DTES than people think. poor does not mean bad, all the time. Criminal element is definitely deeply entrenched down there, and the problems are real. But they look out for each other there.
I was robbed twice, and it was my D/T apt. Assaulted once, and it was on Granville, and it was bridge and tunnel toughs from the Burbs’
So, sometimes all the cliches are not totally wrong!
Nuck’s Misconduct Bishop, 1st United Church of Luongod. LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.........
Bridge and Tunnel toughs
hahaha they use that hear too, I thought that was only a New York thing to describe Jersey Guidos!
fuggedaboutit!
Hey, you leave Jersey alone!
Bridge and tunnel is in the bay area too.
'Nucks Misconduct - Housing Swedish Millionaires Since 2000.
"Pucks are awful little things" - Passive Voice.
by Yankee Canuck on Jun 17, 2011 10:04 AM PDT up reply actions
Getting broken into
is unfortunately part of the deal living anywhere in Vancouver. I’ve been broken into twice in my current home in East Van and i’ve only lived here two years. I think i’ve finally got the bastards beat with my new security measures though. /knockonwood. The next step will be an electrical shock if you touch my sliding glass door.
by Canuckelhead on Jun 16, 2011 10:57 PM PDT up reply actions
Kitsilano
does look really nice but isn’t it super pricey like Yaletown?
I need a boring family type neighborhood:soccer fields, playgrounds good schools, etc within decent commute of South Burnaby area, but only if he gets that particular job. I’ve grown up in a city so I know every area has it’s pockets of nice and not-so-nice. Also, property crime can happen anywhere at anytime so that’s not really something you can move to an area where you’re 100 percent immune to it. That being said it would be nice if we could find an area where my son could ride his bike to his friends house without being jacked for it on the way
I've always figured
north burnaby…brentwood mall area would be the place i’d live if I had kids.
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
'Nucks Misconduct Sr. VP of Inappropriateness and Questionable Conduct, second director of immaturity. My twitter account
I have friends who live in a nice boring family neighbourhood in Burnaby
Prices are a lot better than Vancouver proper. You should probably look close to where the job is.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 17, 2011 9:38 AM PDT up reply actions
N. Burnaby is where I'm at with a kid
I liked it, until last month when the gang task force from two different cities combined to bust a gang member in my building who had coke, meth, heroine, and guns. YAY.
Olympic convert hockey n00b
♥Canucks ♥
(and ♥Coyotes♥)
Joyce area
maybe.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 11:25 AM PDT up reply actions
I lived the first 26 years of my life
in Langley, Abbotsford, Mission, Burnaby, and Surrey and I never once saw a roving gang of “toughs”. In fact every time I think about the term “roving gangs of toughs” I laugh heartily.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
Nucks Misconduct's Prodigal Son, Chief Curmudgeon, and Chief Hunk.
by Section 312 on Jun 16, 2011 11:49 PM PDT up reply actions
I am the leader
of the Van Buren boys.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 12:23 AM PDT up reply actions
You are online
an awful lot for some out “roving” though.
"Giggs gets past Viera, past Dixon, who comes back at him, it's a wonderful run from GIGGS!!!" - Martin Tyler
"Are you out of your fucking mind? You think I'm just going to rape you on the off chance that hopefully you're into that shit?" - Louis CK
Nucks Misconduct's Prodigal Son, Chief Curmudgeon, and Chief Hunk.
by Section 312 on Jun 17, 2011 3:35 AM PDT up reply actions
e-roving
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
I control things
from my lair.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Hey! i live in Surrey! I do live in a nicer area though. There are lots of different patches of Surrey, some good, some not so good. Delta is good, people always lump it in with Surrey. South Surrey is good, Morgan Heights, Panorama Ridge. I basically just don’t go into Newton, Whalley, etc. I don’t really know any of the other areas.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 9:00 AM PDT up reply actions
I think it's time for this old joke
What the best part about living in White Rock?
Never having to say you’re Surrey.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 17, 2011 9:39 AM PDT up reply actions
I actually never say I live in Surrey lol. I moved there a few years ago after getting married. I’d always lived in Vancouver before that and vowed I would never move. Obv I can’t afford a house in Van, but just bought in in Panorama :)
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 10:15 AM PDT up reply actions
Panorama is nice
I worked at the Tong Louie YMCA on Panorama Dr.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 11:26 AM PDT up reply actions
:O I used to work out there. I probably saw you around.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
Ah, what the hell am I saying. I used to live an hour away from Detroit. Surrey kids don’t scare me ;)
meh
Compared to my first job teaching? that’s nothing… One of my ex-students beat a grown man to death with bare hands, no riot either. just. was. bored.
It's all relative, I guess.
In Vancouver, the drug-addled mentally ill homeless urban people are far more civilized and peaceful than the entitled suburban momma-boys with out-of-touch abusive dads they raise in the suburbs.
Most dangerous place for violent crime in the metro area here is the Surrey Central Skytrain station.
I take back everything I said about Boston fans
They celebrated peacefully while our yahoos gooned it up yet again.
It’s becoming embarrassing to be a Vancouverite.
GOODBYE LUONGO!
I think
they would have rioted win or lose.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 8:53 PM PDT up reply actions
Taking the bus home from work
there was a group of high-school-aged guys talking about how it was “a good day for a riot” and how they were planning to kick in windows when the cops weren’t around. I hoped they were just talking out their asses.
Surrey Skytrain
Yeah I have been there. My husbands sister and her bf live in surrey, in one of those new developments…
true dat
the whole thing looked planned out by a few with a few drunken bandwagon jumpers
Spend the summer
looking for a pure sniper to go on the second line that isn’t 5 years past being a legitimate sniper.
Don't drink and park, accidents cause people!
If it ain't got a packet, go home and whack it.
I'm just a loser geek, crazy with an evil streak! -- everclear
He’s not a sniper but what about jussi jokinen for cheap?
"I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I'm afraid i have something of a mess on my hands."
"There's just so many poorly chosen words in that sentence."
Burkie
already has dibs on him.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 9:29 PM PDT up reply actions
I like it. A creative goal scorer just might be what we need to beat elite goaltenders that are good at shutting down conventional shooting attempts.
"I think he has to be happy with his career, he did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." - Henrik Sedin on Mike Millbury
(Dallascanuck, M.D., the real kind, not the Mark Recchi, M.D. kind)
by dallascanuck on Jun 16, 2011 9:32 PM PDT up reply actions
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aW56LSffJtc
I believe the number 1 goal in this highlight video shows Jokinen victimizing Tim Thomas with the Forsberg one-hander.
"I think he has to be happy with his career, he did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." - Henrik Sedin on Mike Millbury
(Dallascanuck, M.D., the real kind, not the Mark Recchi, M.D. kind)
by dallascanuck on Jun 16, 2011 9:37 PM PDT up reply actions
hehe
sign all the Thomas killers in the league!
Don't drink and park, accidents cause people!
If it ain't got a packet, go home and whack it.
I'm just a loser geek, crazy with an evil streak! -- everclear
Like this?
"I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I'm afraid i have something of a mess on my hands."
"There's just so many poorly chosen words in that sentence."
NASTY
NAZEM
GOOD LONDON KID
MAKE SURE YOU KEEP HIM AROUND BURKIE
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 12:46 AM PDT up reply actions
THE LEG KICK
WATCH THE LEG KICK
OHHHHHHHH DOUBLE RAINBOW
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 12:58 AM PDT up reply actions
Basically if you want Tim Thomas killers then take the Leafs roster. 4-2 season series bitches! Therefore we would have totally won the Stanley cup if we made it
"I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I'm afraid i have something of a mess on my hands."
"There's just so many poorly chosen words in that sentence."
Yeah but
the whole not making the playoffs really ruined that. If you sign Richie and keep Lebda and Komi the fuck AWAY from the ACC then maybe next year you’ll make it as an 8th seed.
I do like that Grabbo and Kadri. Here you go Kesler, here are you new wingers!
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 1:06 AM PDT up reply actions
You shall not be recieving Grabbo
Although I think Kadri may be traded this summer if the price is right. Komi could get better, I still have hope but Lebda is beyond redemption of any kind
"I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I'm afraid i have something of a mess on my hands."
"There's just so many poorly chosen words in that sentence."
Grabbo and Kadri
are really the only ones I want.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 2:26 AM PDT up reply actions
Kulemin would actually be a pretty good fit with Kesler, but you can’t have him
"I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I'm afraid i have something of a mess on my hands."
"There's just so many poorly chosen words in that sentence."
We'll give you
Bally for Kulie.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
we can have either...
a power forward type 2nd liner or a sniper type 2nd liner.
i’d rather have a power forward type 2nd liner. we have too many of the sniper type in the AHL already, although using “sniper” is a little generous. shirokov i’m quite convinced makes a great 2nd sniper-type liner if he can handle the physical grind.
Odds of Winning 2012 Stanley Cup
I’m sure this doesn’t mean much and I’m not sure how they Bodog came up with these:
Odds to win the 2012 Stanley Cup
Vancouver Canucks 5/1
Boston Bruins 8/1
Washington Capitals 17/2
Philadelphia Flyers 9/1
Pittsburgh Penguins 9/1
San Jose Sharks 9/1
Detroit Red Wings 12/1
Tampa Bay Lightning 12/1
The rest at http://www.kuklaskorner.com/index.php/hockey/comments/can_we_talk_2012_odds_yet/
"I think he has to be happy with his career, he did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that." - Henrik Sedin on Mike Millbury
(Dallascanuck, M.D., the real kind, not the Mark Recchi, M.D. kind)
blues at 45-1 and chicago at 15-1? free money!
by Passive Voice on Jun 16, 2011 10:05 PM PDT up reply actions
amazing gif
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 16, 2011 11:17 PM PDT reply actions
Whole team was downtown at Cactus Club tonight for Juice's 30th birthday
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 1:23 AM PDT reply actions
Did you take this shot?
'Nucks Misconduct - Housing Swedish Millionaires Since 2000.
"Pucks are awful little things" - Passive Voice.
by Yankee Canuck on Jun 17, 2011 8:01 AM PDT up reply actions
Nope
found it on the internets.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Stanley Cup riot coverage here in the East...
…is being painted as “Canucks fans”. The broad brush is out and all of us wearing Canuck colours seem to be thought of as hooligans and second class caveman cousins of all the more noble fans in the 29 other cities around the league. Certain hosts on the Fan 590 and even community talk radio shows have raved on about how stupid we all are, how the hits by Torres & Rome et.al. are consistent with the disrespect Canucks fans have for other teams and the game itself, some even suggesting we don’t deserve to have a team.
I am from the City and know these are just idiots looking for the anonymity afforded by the mob environment, but the consequences are very unfortunate all around.
Soldiering on…
Born with the Canucks - so close I could almost taste it, but was only a mirage in the desert...
Linden is a god, and Messier will forever SUCK!!!
Hatred of Canucks, and their fans, is like drinking light beer. Many people do it, some enjoy it, but ultimately they are only failing themselves.
by Shazbot on Jun 17, 2011 8:19 AM PDT up reply actions 7 recs
REC'D
LIKE ITS NEVER BEEN REC’D BEFORE.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 11:27 AM PDT up reply actions
Great post
But in terms of fugly playoff beards, nothing comes close to that clearcut stringy weed field that Marchand was sporting.
I saw someone on twitter equate marchand's to an unkept vagina...never knew what to do with that phrase so there you go
'Nucks Misconduct - Housing Swedish Millionaires Since 2000.
"Pucks are awful little things" - Passive Voice.
by Yankee Canuck on Jun 17, 2011 8:37 AM PDT up reply actions
disgusting, yes.... and yet SO funny...
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
That’s really good.
Daniel Sedin on Mike Milbury: "He made a bad comment about us, calling us women. I don’t know how he looks at women. I would be pretty mad if I was a woman."
by Tink for Nucks on Jun 17, 2011 9:43 AM PDT up reply actions
That is some lulz
right there.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 11:28 AM PDT up reply actions
I chuckled.
That’s good.
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
An apology
Someone used my computer on Wednesday night to create a troll account (BruinsBeatCanucks). I’ve given all the details to Yankee Canuck so I’ll spare you and just say here that it was the latest event in a long-standing blood feud with a few of my best friends who are Bruins fans and Rangers fans. It’s usually very funny except that they targeted you guys to get back at me, which was not funny especially given the timing.
You can only apologize so much for what someone else does but I’m sorry about it. Even though I’m a Flyers fan I spend most of my SBNation time at SCH and I’m pretty sure they’ll tell you I’m anti-trolling and in general they like having me around the house. This is not something I would do.
As you can imagine from last year, I empathize with your pain. 3 1/2 months to puck drop.
by flyersfaninchicago on Jun 17, 2011 9:45 AM PDT reply actions 1 recs
Hey now
It’s not his fault. It’s all good.
'Nucks Misconduct - Housing Swedish Millionaires Since 2000.
"Pucks are awful little things" - Passive Voice.
by Yankee Canuck on Jun 17, 2011 10:05 AM PDT up reply actions
I saw one of my good friends who is a Bruins fan joined the night of game seven. He hasn’t said anything yet but I will unleash the dogs of war in person if he does. ;)
'Nucks Misconduct - Housing Swedish Millionaires Since 2000.
"Pucks are awful little things" - Passive Voice.
by Yankee Canuck on Jun 17, 2011 10:07 AM PDT up reply actions
I understand the response, but these guys are the best. I’m godfather to one of their kids and we’d do anything for each other. The ball-busting is our way to be “stupid juvenile men” but usually we keep other people out of it.
by flyersfaninchicago on Jun 17, 2011 10:13 AM PDT up reply actions
Sorry about the warning then
I’ve seen you over at SCH (well, saw now) and you seemed decent. But you can never truly tell with people online if they are hiding an inner desire to troll or not ;)
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
no worries. the warning made sense given the information you had. actually a ban made sense. You definitely had a troll and it looked like it was me.
by flyersfaninchicago on Jun 17, 2011 6:59 PM PDT up reply actions
props
for coming in and saying something…
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
'Nucks Misconduct Sr. VP of Inappropriateness and Questionable Conduct, second director of immaturity. My twitter account
by Twitchy2010 on Jun 17, 2011 10:01 AM PDT up reply actions
I can attest for flyersfan
He’s been upstanding at SCH and I was quite shocked to see his banishment over here. Glad to see it has been fixed. If you’re lucky maybe he’ll do some blog stats for you. They are quite entertaining.
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
hey thanks stacie. there’s a non-compete clause in my contract with SCH for the blog stats.
keep that kool-aid brewing, or fertilized.
by flyersfaninchicago on Jun 17, 2011 3:55 PM PDT up reply actions
hey now
no pimping out flyersfan and his blog-stats to other sites!
SCH Narc - check yo'self before you wreck yo'self.
see, stacie. the non-compete clause is policed with ferocity.
by flyersfaninchicago on Jun 17, 2011 7:00 PM PDT up reply actions
well you haven't been around lately
so you are going to get fired mister – quit playing with the Nucks and get back to SCH
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
I take summers off to recover from all the injuries that I’m not allowed to talk about because it’s unmanly. You know the code…
The Nunavut Iditarods, who were eliminated from the Stanley Cup playoffs yesterday, announced that all 25 players on their active roster would have dual hip replacement surgery in the off-season. A number of players missed games during the playoffs, but questions about the extent of injuries were met with vague responses of “collective undisclosed lower-body day-to-day conditions.”
When asked yesterday, one of the players said “Everybody’s dinged up this time of year. It’s no excuse. You just lace up and make sure your walker isn’t cracked and you skate your wing.”
Thinking is hard work and typing even more so. These are my peak earning years and I have to think about my family and put food on the table. Cat food, but still. I’ll be back in October.
by flyersfaninchicago on Jun 17, 2011 10:44 PM PDT up reply actions
well as long as it was just a lower body injury
we don’t want you concussed trying to make us laugh
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
By the way
I don’t like your signature anymore. Because it came true
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
Well that goes for both of my teams
I will have to work on a new one for the summer.
It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later.
Guess who did our eulogy?
xv. Damn.
Least we still have Stanley...Park?
by eightyseven on Jun 17, 2011 10:42 AM PDT via mobile reply actions
Ah crap. I was hoping it wouldn’t be them.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 10:42 AM PDT up reply actions
Whatever it says
(and I’m not going to read it) I know for a fact it won’t be as funny or scathing as the one Harrison from PITB did on them. I’m good with it. :)
Olympic convert hockey n00b
♥Canucks ♥
(and ♥Coyotes♥)
Harrison was so damn witty. English prowess, he doth have.
xv. Damn.
Least we still have Stanley...Park?
by eightyseven on Jun 17, 2011 10:47 AM PDT via mobile up reply actions
Knew it was coming.
CNS was on SCoC before Game 7 begging the Bruins to win so they could post our Eulogy.
Quite vitriolic and savage, but that is the point so yeah. Sigh, not much to say.
Work hard, play harder, rest easy.
thing is
no matter how well it’s written, few outsiders will ever have any opinion on it other than thinking SCH are sore losers trying to dance on the grave of an opponent someone else had to kill for them.
Olympic convert hockey n00b
♥Canucks ♥
(and ♥Coyotes♥)
Not for us, remember? We're the Canucks.
It hits and feeds into all the negative points you expect and have read for yourself. I really believe the only reason it wasn’t online 5 minutes after Game 7 was over was because they wanted to fit the rioting in.
Work hard, play harder, rest easy.
meh
it’s not that bad… typical PD eulogy stuff, nothing too surprising or egregious in there "blah blah luongo sucks, the sedins are girls, your gm whines etc etc’. I didn’t expect anything less. I was pleasantly surprised that he didn’t eulogize the team by bashing the fans all that much, like some of these have done, and although there was a ton of sour grapes, it was neither the best nor the worst of the eulogies this year. I give it a pass; expect the worst and be pleasantly surprised by the lack of blood pressure increase. Maybe i’ve just been desensitized to all the jabs he used, which were everything the MSM’s been saying since the start of the SJ series. The illustrations were funny too. I didn’t hate it.
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
'Nucks Misconduct Sr. VP of Inappropriateness and Questionable Conduct, second director of immaturity. My twitter account
by Twitchy2010 on Jun 17, 2011 11:21 AM PDT up reply actions
It seemed like a paint-by-numbers routine with pretty Photoshops.
It’s not the worst eulogy I’ve seen and if I wasn’t a Canucks fan I’d probably chuckle a bit more at it. That said, it felt to me like he went after the fans quite a bit.
You are clearly marked out as a classless organization and fanbase, and a gutless team. That will go down in history.
You can stop invading our blogs to look for love, like your goalie who needed it from the opposing stopper.
But at the end of the day, we’ve heard that all before, about the team and the fanbase. So it’s there, it did what it was supposed to do. It certainly isn’t for us and react to, and it wasn’t intended for us. I read it, I frowned, then I turned to wondering what it will take to get back to the SCF.
Work hard, play harder, rest easy.
well he did poke the fans
a couple times, but my point was he didn’t eulogize the team by bootfucking the fan base like some of the eulogies have. His points against the fans are pretty limited and mild, really.
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
'Nucks Misconduct Sr. VP of Inappropriateness and Questionable Conduct, second director of immaturity. My twitter account
by Twitchy2010 on Jun 17, 2011 11:42 AM PDT up reply actions
True. I'm not bitter or angry over the Eulogy.
The Eulogies are pieces that serve two purposes IMO: To give anyone who doesn’t like that team a chance to dance on their grave, (This year, there’s a lot of people dancing.) and cause Canuck fans butthurt with maybe a chuckle or two. The thing that struck me the most was the copious amounts of rage located in the piece. How can I be properly butthurt when Sam’s angrier than I am?
I guess what I was saying before rambling into a tangent* is that there are a lot of negative things said (which is what Sam and CNS are supposed to do), but they’re all things we’ve heard before. Repeatedly. From everywhere. It loses its sting after a while. So I’m with you on being meh and not hating it.
*Which I seem to do a lot. :/
Work hard, play harder, rest easy.
I don't need to read it
To know exactly what it’s going to day
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
to day?
What the hell.
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
Allergies? A cold?
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
Just read it. It was more angry than funny. Disappointing.
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 10:50 AM PDT up reply actions
yeah, I got a paragraph or three in, saw what road I was heading down
…and clicked elsewhere. Sorry Sam. Not your best effort.
Whatever. I find it kinda comforting that this all consuming, palpable hatred that we supposedly had after two straight playoff losses has been far surpassed by the vitriolic and overwrought response after their loss this year.
Don’t they know what Star Wars taught us about all consuming hatred?
Nuck’s Misconduct Bishop, 1st United Church of Luongod. LUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU.........
That is the angriest eulogy Ive ever read
we must have really gotten under their skin.
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 11:33 AM PDT up reply actions
I just don’t get all that anger. Seriously,you BARELY made it into the playoffs, got beat in the first round by the season favorite for the cup and pres trophy winners.You beat us several times in a row in years past.
Why so mad?
Well....
…for starters, the Cubs have sucked for years (over 100 now, right?) and are well under .500, the White Sox have been crappy for the last few years are well under .500 this year, the Bears are on the high end of good (but can’t play consistently enough to finish the job), the Bulls finally did well for the first time in years (but then lost), and the Blackhawks did nothing for 40-something years before finally winning another cup, and then barely clawed their way into the finals the next year…
Yeah, I could see the anger there. Don’t really care though haha.
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
O
THEY MAD
"Sometimes grown-ups have low self-esteem and get on guys and say stupid stuff. I think he has to be happy with his career. He did a great job on Long Island. I’m sure he is happy with that" - Captain Henrik Sedin, on Mike Milbury and his comments
Nucks Misconduct's official black guy and first line center (Twitter's 1st line center also).
by Chuckles Canuckles on Jun 17, 2011 8:38 PM PDT up reply actions
ok yeah
their other teams are lackluster..um, so? not the only ones. Good lord, Detroit Lions anyone? They built a temporarily over the cap team to get the cup and had to dismantle it after.They used their strategy it worked they got the cup, and had to deal with the consequences afterword.They act like the Vancouver Canucks were somehow personally responsible for their lackluster year this year. It goes a little above and beyond just butt hurt. More like stalker wall full of articles and lit candles Buffalo Bill it puts the lotion on its skin kinda angry IMO
just in case
this isn’t apparent. I am only talking about SOME of the guys at SCH.
We have had some really nice Hawk fans over here
Of course!
Everyone has their fair share of idiots.
Every time I step up in the building, everybody's hands go UP..... AND THEY STAY THERE.
-nashvillepredators-
Believe it or not
We are not terribly angry at the loss. Don’t be mistaken we would have loved to beat you, but it was all to obvious to us the Hawks were running on fumes at the end. We know they probably had no shot at winning it just for that fact, and and would have probably sputtered out in round two.
We knew the cost of winning the cup in 2010 would cost allot in 2011. Hopes were still high, but we all knew the reality of the situation, the Hawks never got it all together soon enough and it killed their energy for the playoffs.
Many, if not most at SCH are taking the early exit as somewhat of a blessing in disguise. The team can rest, clear its head and build on the core and base they have that got them to the silly season. We know next years Hawks will be stronger because of this. Like I said, don’t get me wrong, we would have liked to beat you, but on the flip side we also know it was better to get it done and over with, then drag it out. Our injuries have been addressed, some players have new contracts, and the team is relaxing.
So no we are not Angry, perhaps a little disappointed yes,angry no. As for the Hate for your team, well that is a different matter, but it is pretty much the same thing mentioned from other teams fans bases as well, but just amplified due to some instances between our teams, but losing is not one of them.
Preemptive Palomino, lets talk political stuff elsewhere .
Second City Hockey, It's not just about Hockey, it's Blackhawks Hockey!
Sarcasm is implied, unless I am serious
by Toews-makes-funny-faces on Jun 18, 2011 12:46 PM PDT up reply actions
sad watching the last interviews during the locker clean out
but it was nice hearing Juice say he’s optimistic about the possibility of staying on the team.
hmmmmm
@mattsekeres
Matthew Sekeres
Kevin Bieksa, Christian Ehrhoff and Sami Salo all suggest they would take less to remain Canucks. UFAs as of July 1.
@FarhanLaljiTSN
Farhan Lalji
Bieksa very optimistic about getting signed by #Canucks long term before July 1. Hamhuis needs surgery & may not be back for training camp
"Playin hurt, baby that don't faze me. I don't got time for pain. The only pain I've got time for is the pain I put on fools who don't know what time it is!"
Looks
like a lot of injured players may not be ready for the training camp. Not a pretty picture.
Los Angeles, CA
When you play 25% more than some other teams… it’s going to take a toll. I’m hoping our boys can get rested, get healed up, and get ready for a brighter futuree.
Frequent visitor to Nucks Misconduct.
by Vancouverguy on Jun 17, 2011 1:06 PM PDT up reply actions
I don’t really mind if he misses training camp. He may as well heal up and be 100% instead of hurting at the end of the regular season because he’s tired by then. And it’ll give us a chance to see some more talent from the farm…where is our farm going to be? :S
by sunshine and lollipops on Jun 17, 2011 1:19 PM PDT up reply actions
Erhoff
has to see the writing on the wall.
How much though
is it enough for Gillis to get 3-4MM together to get a top-6 forward that makes us even more dangerous?
<3 Boobies!
#WinitWithManny
notafullcolon CS: Well obviously I meant we were snorting blow off hookers at the time of the goal
This summer
will be critical, for the future of this franchise. GMMG can push the team over the top, and make it the overwhelming favorite for the cup next year.
But it will takes some courage to do so. When I say courage, I mean that he will need to look at existing contracts, and decide whether or not they make sense, from a financial standpoint.
This means one thing, amongst others: if the fans thought that Luongo’s performance was over-scrutinized over the past years, they ain’t seen nothing yet. This off-season, Lu will be analized and looked at, like never before. And for good reasons, not the Luongo-hating bullshit.
Luongo is a good goalie. Not a great one, but a good one. If we look at the existing 60 or so goalies in the League, he is above average. The question will be: what can improve this team the most – trading him, and use his cap-hit to add one of two GREAT pieces to this team (while deploying Schneider), or keep Lu and add nothing to the current roster.
It’s a cost-benefit analysis, nothing more. The decision will largely depend on who is available right now. If there is a great player available, but cap space is needed, that could trigger the negotiations with Lu and with any takers. If there is not much available, regardless of how much cap space the Canucks have, then there is no point going through the exercise.
At this point they pretty much know what can be expected from Luongo. They know that Lu can give them a very good regular season performance. This means that teams Like Dallas, or Winnipeg, or any other team whose biggest concern is to make the playoffs, would be happy to take him.
But they also know that he is prone to major break-downs, especially in high-pressure situations, like the playoffs. It happened so many times, that there is no reason to assume that it will not happen again. They also know that it is unlikely that Lu will pull a playoff performance like Thomas, or Giguerre (during his cup run), or Niemi (with Chicago). It could happen, but it is unlikely.
So the question is simple: what will give them the greatest chance to win the cup next year. Luongo, or no Luongo? The Canucks have to look at this objectively. If they do, I am sure that Luongo will work with them, even with his non-trading clause in place.
GMMG can make a great move, and be a genious. But he can also screw up big time, if he trades Luongo for a player that turns out to be a bust (Messier comes to mind).
It remains to be seen, how much courage he has, to shake up this team.
Los Angeles, CA
TRADE LUONGO!!
…
In all seriousness, I do think trading him would be beneficial for the team. The Canucks want to be a team that wins the Stanley Cup, not a team that wins the regular season. (well they want to be both, but the Stanley Cup has more importance). We need someone that will shine in the playoffs. I’m not sure if Schneider can handle it, but we know well enough that when under pressure, Luongo can’t save the team the way Thomas can.
Luongo can save us that way
But the difference was, Thomas had a better team playing in front of him. Let’s be real here, the Canucks were the more talented players, but Boston was the better team overall. We didn’t dominate the Bruins and they squeezed out 4 wins. We didn’t adjust our attack to exploit Thomas’ weaknesses and our D looked completely out of gas, all while the Bruins fought through every game. Not take anything away from Thomas, he was excellent. But these comparisons are maddening. Luongo stole 3 games for us in the Finals. 2/3 wins were shutouts, and in the other game he was sublime while Thomas was average. The reason we were excited about our chances after game 2 was because Luongo was playing excellent behind an average Canucks team. But the team regressed in Boston and Luongo couldn’t hold it up forever. Then he turned in a bad game (I can’t hold game three on him – a blowout happens because the team isn’t in it). If the Canucks had won game 6, Luongo wins the Conn Smyth. Amazing how two losses after an excellent playoff run spurs this sort of discussion.
If you want to say that Schneider can play as well, great. We can debate that. I don’t agree, but I respect that angle. But this “luongo can’t win” garbage is BS.
<3 Boobies!
#WinitWithManny
notafullcolon CS: Well obviously I meant we were snorting blow off hookers at the time of the goal
The point was
that If Schneider can do a job that is comparable to Luongo’s, then the 4 million extra money can be put to improve the team.
Los Angeles, CA
i think
that the point is Schneider can’t do a comparable job to luongo’s, at least not yet. Don’t get yer panties in a knot, I’m not dissing GJ, just saying he’s not there yet.
"Over thinking, over analyzing separates the body from the mind."
Dropping F-bombs since the early 70's.
'Nucks Misconduct Sr. VP of Inappropriateness and Questionable Conduct, second director of immaturity. My twitter account
Don't forget too
Even with having the BEST goalie in the league, their D all built a hug wall around him every time, making it impossible to get a shot. Thomas had his own little gated community going on in there
Haha.. analized.
Ouch. But, so fitting when you’re refering to local “fans” and their opinions on Luongo.
Frequent visitor to Nucks Misconduct.
by Vancouverguy on Jun 17, 2011 1:07 PM PDT up reply actions
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