Morning Buzz: It's all about the Bruins, baby
by Jordan Clarke on Jan 6, 2012 7:49 AM PST
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It's a down day for the Canucks, as they prepare to take on the giant trollfaces in Boston tomorrow. We still don't know who's starting in goal (it's gotta be Lou), or how close guys like Aaron Rome and David Booth are to returning, but the team will at least have had a day of rest and should need no extra motivation for playing in a building they were embarrassed in last June.
Adding to the anticipation is the fact the Bruins are on one hell of a roll of late, not just beating teams, but humiliating them. This is Vancouver's biggest test of the season to date. Here are some links to get you set.
Vancouver Canucks news & notes:
- So, the Canucks play the Bruins tomorrow. Has anything changed since June? [The Province]
- Ben Kuzma follows up with Mark Recchi about his comments a couple months ago in regards to the Canucks "arrogance". He all but singles out Burrows and Lapierre as guys the Bruins hated, which is what you would expect. But he actually shows love for Kesler, Bieksa, Higgins, and Malhotra. I'm curious where the Sedins sit in all of this; I can't imagine them being arrogant on the ice, but I also don't think I've heard other players go out of their way to say they respect the way they play. [The Province]
- Speaking of trolls, it seems one has taken control of Canucks Army long enough to remind us of some painful memories. [Canucks Army]
- The Stanchion presents: Daniel Sedin vs. Brad Marchand Part 2. I just about died watching Daniel's dance moves right in Marchand's face at 0:57. This is phenomenal. [Legion of Blog]
- CHB doles out the grades at the halfway point of the season. [Canucks Hockey Blog]
- Byron Bitz has been officially assigned to the Chicago Wolves. How long until we see him suit up in Vancouver? I like Bitz, but have no idea where he fits into the lineup when the team is healthy. [Canucks.com]
Today in Canucks history: [Nothing happened, so I'll post the one from Jan 8, 2003] Canucks Head Coach Marc Crawford earns the right to coach the Western Conference All-Star Team at the 53rd NHL All-Star Game, becoming the first Canucks head coach to do so.
NHL news & notes:
- On All-Star Game Fan Balloting: "Let them have their fun. Considering Kessel, Joffrey Lupul and James Reimer just missed out, are we really going to begrudge Sens and Leafs fans for spending another long Ontario winter stuffing the ballot box, instead of drinking themselves to death like usual?" [Deadspin]
- She Weber returned to the Predators lineup last night, recording 25:45 of ice-time and a -2 in a 4-1 loss to the Dallas Stars.
- Watch the Bruins hang 9 goals on the Calgary Flames. Yeah it's the Bruins, but in this case I can give them props for blowing out a rival. Chris Butler was -7 for the Flames.
- Brian Burke is talking again. [National Post]
- Grantland's Katie Baker takes a trip around the NHL, which includes talking about how good the Bruins are, which we can't get enough of! [Grantland]
- Justin Bourne ranks NHL players' "beerability". The Canucks don't rank well. [Backhand Shelf]
- Yesterday it was reported that Krys Barch received a one-game suspension for his alleged racial slur directed towards PK Subban. There's been much speculation over what Barch possibly could have said to elicit such a reaction. Well guys, through my exclusive sources, I've managed to secure video of Barch's tirade on Subban. Decide for yourself whether the suspension was justified. [Thanks @SocialAssassin2]
- On a serious note, take a look at this heartbreaking photo of Aleksandro Salei, son of fallen defenceman Ruslan Salei:
Today in NHL history: [Jan 6, 1980] The Philadelphia Flyers set NHL record of 35 straight games without a defeat.
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Love the Stanchion's Attention to Detail
Marchand even has the ‘Champian’ tattoo across his midsection
the whole daniel and henrik tag teaming him
just gonna flame the haters’ fire tho…heh
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I had to have the “Champian” tattoo. I would have put the entire thing on him, but it would have been too small. So I made it much bigger and in the wrong position, but it’s the thought that counts.
by The Stanchion on Jan 6, 2012 11:18 AM PST up reply actions
Apparently before the game tomorrow, fans at the arena will be treated to a replay of Game 7. They’re going to be whipped into a frenzy before the puck even drops.
trade
Calgary sends Mikkelsson to Tampa for Jones.
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@NM_missy
*Mikelson
tough switching between tabs smoothly on the playbook. can’t copy-paste tweets like i normally do.
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@NM_missy
you bought a RIM product?
Also is this just the beginning for Calgary? I predict more moves before the week is out.
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 10:18 AM PST up reply actions
This is a stupid move though. Calgary just got lit up, and is getting lit up with a fair regularity, why would they send a defenseman for a forward?
I’ve been saying this for a while, but Calgary need to blow it all up, especially Kipper and Jokinen for anything of value. Iginla is debatable, because at least he’s got a another year left.
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by Vancouverguy on Jan 6, 2012 12:02 PM PST up reply actions
got a Blackberry Playbook for Christmas.
it’s been really good so far, i like it.
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Any word on the starting goalie?
I get why it’s a tough call and I’m ok with either guy at this point. Glad I don’t have to make that decision cause I keep going back and forth on who I think it should be. Schneider seems like the right choice to lower the stakes of a game that already has out of control stakes for a regular season game. Plus it’s his hometown. But doesn’t Luongo, as the starting goalie, deserve the opportunity to get some redemption, however small? Especially coming off a shut out and playing as well as he has. Also, when he’s playing this well doesn’t he give us the best opportunity to win? Too…much…to…consider…
Schneider will start
as per the team’s Twitter. Wow.
by Jordan Clarke on Jan 6, 2012 11:25 AM PST up reply actions
Can't say I'm surprised
Probably a little disappointing for Luongo given the way he’s played but it’s the safe choice and that’s AV’s style. Also in true AV and gmmg style it’s a little bit of an eff you, this is my team to the media
by Canuckelhead on Jan 6, 2012 11:31 AM PST up reply actions
Pretty safe choice...
If Luongo plays and wins, the buzz is that he only wins meaningless games. If he loses, then the Bruins are in his head.
The Bruins
are playing out of control, this season. They seem to be a better team than last year.
I don’t know what to expect of this game. But one thing is definitely true: the media is blowing the importance of this game way out of proportion.
How important can a game be, when people are watching it while having breakfast?
Los Angeles, CA
Breakfast?
I plan on being three beers in by 9:30.
by Canuckelhead on Jan 6, 2012 10:12 AM PST up reply actions
I've always wondered
if Baileys works on cereal
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 10:34 AM PST up reply actions
In other news
I don’t recommend reading the comments section over at SCoC. It’s light now but already enough to make me angrily close that tab. Which is sort of ridiculous on an iPad. Because if you do it angrily you have to keep pressing the screen since I missed the first time and the second time it didn’t “feel” it.
When All Else Fails...
Ask a Bruins fan who Ray Borque won a cup with if they start getting obnoxious. If they’re a real Bruins fan, that’ll catch em off guard. If not, they’re just riding the bandwagon. That having been said, Boston deserves to have all the swagger in the world with the season they’re having.
I was just browsing stats
with the Bruins crazy goal differential they have the top 4 spots in +/- locked down and 6 of the top 10 in the league. Wow
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 10:46 AM PST up reply actions
If all goes well
Hopefully by tomorrow at 1 that’ll be down, if even just a little.
by Canuckelhead on Jan 6, 2012 11:02 AM PST up reply actions
Pah, Re: Bourque, we were happy he got to win it. Our then cheap-ass management/ownership wouldn’t surround him with enough to get it done in our uniform.
How does it catch us off guard?
And hello. Been gone a few months.
Will be at the game tomorrow, disappointed to hear no Luongo.
I agree. There’s no way you guys will be caught off-guard. If there was an off-guard game, it would have been yesterday, and as we all know, that didn’t happen, at all.
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by Vancouverguy on Jan 6, 2012 12:47 PM PST up reply actions
So, I'm going to say it.
That post on Canucks Army is fucking trash. It’s not particularly funny (and I can take the Canucks being the butt end of a joke, as long as it’s a good one), it’s not smart or anything, and it’s pretty much just some idiot mass hole incapable of thinking for himself spewing out the same bullshit that idiot media members do. “WE HAVE MORE CUPS!” “VANCOUVER IS THE ONLY CITY TO EVER RIOT OVER SPORTS!” “HEY DID YOU HEAR MARCHAND HIT THE SISTERZ!?!?!”
Absolutely nothing we’ve never heard before, but to hear it presented as if it was something new was just unreal. Gotta love when the “writer” calls Miller’s concussion a fake; what a fucking piece of garbage. Not like Horton, who was diagnosed with a “severe concussion” just hours after he was hit by Rome, only to almost play in game 7. Riiiiiiiiiight.
I don’t expect people to believe “CANUCKS GOOD. BRUINS BAD”, because that’s not the case. I just expect a little bit of perspective I guess?
I get Embrace the Hate. To me, it means “Don’t bother, laugh at these fools, and move on”. I don’t, however, condone putting trash like that on a Canucks blog. Maybe the gesture was in good intentions, to show “we can take a ribbing” or something like that, but I didn’t think it came off as anything but absolutely classless garbage. I’ll still visit Canucks army, but that definitely ticked away some of the respect I had for that site.
GO CANUCKS GO. FUCK BOSTON. RUIN THE BRUINS.
by RogerFenway on Jan 6, 2012 11:04 AM PST reply actions 1 recs
And I realize that’s probably a bit of an overreaction, but when I read stuff like that when I’m just waking up and haven’t had a coffee yet, it’s going to happen.
Whatever
we still won 1812 and burned the White House
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 11:10 AM PST up reply actions
My riot article for Embrace the Hate was far better. ;)
by The Stanchion on Jan 6, 2012 11:19 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah bitches
You may have won the cup but we burnt the effing white house!
by Canuckelhead on Jan 6, 2012 11:28 AM PST up reply actions
You guys are British?
Granted, Prevost got the ball rolling after we torched York, but I didn’t know Ross had some Canucks in his unit.
Confederation happened in 1867.
Canada was just British colonies before that. So yes, we were British.
Kind of like how the USA was also British before the French helped you out with fighting that war in 1775.
I’m aware of the year of the Confederation.
I somehow doubt many Canadians in the 181x’s were calling themselves British. You have your own identity afterall.
“I’m a Canadian, subject of the British Empire,” sounds better.
Those living in the Original 13 were called American colonists afterall, and there was already a distinction between those American colonists and those in Canada.
and now
there’s a history lesson in here…..
(runs away)
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No question of that!
But really 1812 to us is pretty much Washington buring and Jackson’s victory at New Orleans (and a number of frontier battles with Indians). As far as I know, the UK thinks even less of the conflict. In Canada it seems to stay strong though, the memories.
not really
I get quite amused when I hear the news that the US has changed their history books to reflect that “we won the War of 1812”.
We kind of thought the Plains of Abraham and all that.
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yep
my mistake.
We still won though…
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Who_won_and_who_lost_in_the_War_of_1812
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Why would you bother
Thw whole thing is kinda overcompensating. The way to embrace the hate is to let it slide off you not make a whole production of showing how it “doesn’t bother you”. Now we’re just the fat kid who shoves 15 burgers in his face at school to get a laugh then goes home and cries himself to sleep
by Canuckelhead on Jan 6, 2012 11:37 AM PST up reply actions
Yeah, fair enough. I just read it because I normally like Canucks Army. I understand what the point of Embrace the Hate is. I can also be a fiery individual, and I have a tendency to get worked up about stuff. Case in point right above. I can see that I basically got sucked right in, but I consider that site to be one of the few I can actually bother with anymore, so to see that garbage there flicked a switch.
I meant why bother reading it
Youre right it’s garbage
by Canuckelhead on Jan 6, 2012 11:50 AM PST up reply actions
+1
The only reaction needed is to give kudos to a well written troll piece. That one was badly written and pretty unimaginative.
I think the folks at Second City Hockey are the absolute best at intelligent mudslinging. I am very grateful that we are so hated by such a smart bunch of fans.
why
Would I read to see if someone has already posted information when I can just look like an idiot doing it this way?
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
I checked the front page but not the rest of the thread. Good job me
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
I don't think you look like an idiot
Pretty easy to breeze through the comments.
by Canuckelhead on Jan 6, 2012 11:51 AM PST up reply actions
Exactly why they did it
Like I said before. Safe choice. Tone down some of the overhype
by Canuckelhead on Jan 6, 2012 11:39 AM PST up reply actions
I said it at the meetup
and I’ll say it again: MG wants to keep schneider. They’re throwing him a bone, cuz they’re gonna offer him a chance to be a 30 game player next season, 35 after that then let the chips fall where they may past that. Trading schneider makes a ton of sense only if A: he wants more than we can pay or B: we can get a shit ton of value for him. This is a very good move by management to show schneider we respect and want what he does.
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Respecting Schneider
at the cost of telling Lou we don’t trust him doesn’t seem like the best move going forwards. 2022 is a long way away.
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 11:59 AM PST up reply actions
but we're not telling him that
if this game was against anyone else it would be schneider anyways. Why do people assume lu is so mentally weak that this would break him? When he sat before he came out stronger than ever…
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Because
of his crazy funks. Honestly I think he needed to go in there and win this one. Yes it’s “meaningless” but it has been hyped enough to count for something. Had he lost this one though, I don’t know. This is probably why I’m not a Coach or GM. I just want it to be over and then it be June and we’ve won a cup. Being a bridesmaid sucks.
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 12:08 PM PST up reply actions
true
but it seems to me that often when the team goes on a shitty streak, it’s seldom all lu… he has some stinkers as any goalie does, but past his october stinkiness seldom does he play more than one or two soft games in a row, and more often the not a bad game against luongo starts in front of him.
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what are you talking about Twitch?
Don’t you read the newspapers? It’s always Luongo’s fault! And Cody Hodgson doesn’t get enough play time! And Kesler’s playing too much!
Need I say more?
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by Vancouverguy on Jan 6, 2012 12:25 PM PST up reply actions
sorry I forgot
i’ve been away from cdc for too long I guess ;)
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It's only Luongo's fault
because of the goaltending controversy
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 4:19 PM PST up reply actions
Not mentally weak
But if for no other reason than as a competitor you gotta think Lou wanted this game and is dissapointed. Maybe GJ will get “cramps” again
by Canuckelhead on Jan 6, 2012 2:37 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
If they have the same relationship they keep telling the media they have, then I don’t think it’s going to bother Lui in the least to have Schneids backing him up.
We’ve also seen 2 excellent years of Lui when he plays 50+ to 60 games a season. It’s a sound strategy to have a strong back-up that we can count on for 25-30 games every season. But, if you can fetch a very strong package with Schneid’s departure, I think you gotta take it, as long as it gives you a better chance to win.
Lack’s no sure thing, but for intents and purposes, he’s looked capable in the AHL this season. Plus, there’s a couple of teams out there who should be desperate for quality goaltending. Let’s just wait and see what type of package we can get for him. Lightnings, Calgary, Anaheim, New Jersey and a few other teams SHOULD be calling. And Schneids is a better goaltender than Lindback, Bernier, Montoya, Greiss, and any other backup out there.
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by Vancouverguy on Jan 6, 2012 12:10 PM PST up reply actions
I think
he shares “Best non starter” with Tukka Rask
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 12:12 PM PST up reply actions
Valid, the only difference being Rask is Thomas’ successor, but Lui’s in his prime.
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by Vancouverguy on Jan 6, 2012 12:24 PM PST up reply actions
Dear lord.
As a Canuck fan, I hope that’s not the case, and he goes away permanently.
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by Vancouverguy on Jan 6, 2012 12:27 PM PST up reply actions
Tim Thomas Save %
2006-2007 3.13
2007-2008 2.44
2008-2009 2.10
2009-2010 2.56
2010-2011 2.00
2011-2012 1.90 (to date)
So…other than the anomaly of 2009, it looks like he hasn’t reached his prime. :-)
Look at you, all smug-like. =P
His age is getting up there though, no?
I wish his sv% was 2-3% :P
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by Vancouverguy on Jan 6, 2012 12:48 PM PST up reply actions
That beer article didn't really do anything for me either, but:
* Ilya Bryzgalov – As someone said when this initially came up, I think he’s more a guy you’d do hallucinogens with.
burr, bieksa, kesler, salo, lappy
they’d all be fun drinking buds i think. Hamhuis, booth, not so much I think.
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Burr, Bieksa, Lap and Kesler seem like they’d be a blast. If his time in Montreal and New York are any indication, so is Higgins.
A couple of my buddies ran into Schneider downtown one time and did shots with him, said he was a great guy. And I have it on good authority that back when Ohlund was still in town, he and Salo were quite the gruesome twosome.
And I would totally drop acid with Bryz.
by RogerFenway on Jan 6, 2012 11:55 AM PST up reply actions 1 recs
I agree with most of them
I just get the feeling that Kesler is a “Bro” and would drive me nuts. And he’s probably an angry and surly moody drunk. Manny is pretty smart he’d be good for talking while drinking. And if we’re talking former Canucks who DOESN’T want to drink with SOB.
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 11:56 AM PST up reply actions
I don't
the guy just screams “DOUCHEBAG”. Also, he likes country music, so no way. That’s also why mayray isn’t in the list.
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Douchebag?
He made several questionable decisions while on the Canucks yes. But I can’t imagine I’d go home after a night thinking “That was boring”. Also girls in cowboy hats are pretty great.
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 12:01 PM PST up reply actions
you obviously
didn’t grow up in cowboy country…i did. Girls in cowboy hats are for the most part wearing boots with cow shit on them. Also take the hat off and their hair stinks. Some are hot, but no more than in any other demographic. Trust me on this, I speak from experience.
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okay
my cowgirl experience is limited to a few hazy road trips to Calgary and Halloween.
by mechanixfetch on Jan 6, 2012 12:09 PM PST up reply actions
I agree it wouldn't be boring
but would it be fun? I dunno, I just don’t think of hanging with a douche as fun… Of course having said that, I don’t know for sure that he is a douche…he may be a genuinely cool guy in person.
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Your country music comment reminds me of Bob Newhart's quote...
“I don’t like country music, but I don’t want to denigrate those who do.”
…pause…
“And for those of you who do like country music, denigrate means ‘to put down’.”
Twitch’s the good-looking bastard who’s cussing out Mark Lee with a passion. You can’t miss him. If you hear: “Fuck you Mark Lee” more than 3 times in 10 seconds, it’s probably him.
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by Vancouverguy on Jan 6, 2012 12:26 PM PST up reply actions
also
i usually have hot chicks around me.
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Yeah
:(
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