Morning Buzz: Schneider starts in Minny; Henrik may be hurt; 2013 Winter Classic announcement
by Jordan Clarke on Feb 9, 2012 7:33 AM PST
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PrintWhether you're feeling the effects of a big win and the celebration that followed, or you're just crushing as much caffeine as you can to make it through the day, everyone needs a good buzz in the morning. Here are your links, images, bad Photoshops, out-of-context quotes and wild generalities for Thursday, February 9, 2012.
Vancouver Canucks News & Notes
First of all, our own Kenty Basky wrote something really important yesterday. Please go give it a read if you haven't yet.
Unsurprisingly, Cory Schneider gets the start in Minnesota tonight. [Vancouver Sun]
Henrik Sedin's iron man streak of 552 games is in jeopardy. Our Captain blocked a shot in the 1st period against the Predators and was wearing a walking boot yesterday as a result. I'm sure we'll know more later today, but I'm not betting against Hank. [The White Towel]
Wait a tick, maybe the boot is just a fashion statement? [Legion of Blog]
If Henrik is indeed out, Daniel will get a chance to go solo. Hank won a scoring title without Daniel a couple seasons ago. [The Province]
"The Week in Canucks Tweets". I feel shame now for using "Bitz and bites" in my headline yesterday. In my defence, I usually write this before I've had any coffee. [Canucks Army]
Murph with a couple of possible Canuck trade targets. Bryan Allen is an interesting idea. [Sportsnet]
Tom Benjamin is bang on about the idea of trading Cory Schneider. He writes pretty much exactly what I've been telling everyone who asks me about Schneider: he's more valuable to the team that the return he would garner this season. [Canucks Corner]
Are you a new Canucks fan? Looking to get caught up on who's who before the playoffs? Harrison Mooney has you covered. [PITB]
Today in Canucks History
[Feb 9, 1971] Rosaire Paiement sets a club record with four goals against Buffalo in a 6-3 victory.
NHL News & Notes
The NHL will make a "major announcement" today, and we already know it's that the 2013 Winter Classic will be held at Michigan Stadium in Detroit, where the Red Wings will face the Maple Leafs. Here's how it happened. [Puck Daddy]
Here's the live streaming video if you're early enough to catch it:
Those Red Wings won their 18th straight game at Joe Louis Arena last night, defeating the Oilers 4-2. Take a guess who scored the 2 goals for Edmonton. [Sportsnet]
Ryan Miller made a statement with a shutout against the Boston Bruins last night, the team that has manhandled the Sabres and Miller as of late. [AP]
Tim Thomas is saying things on Facebook again. With the White House scandal still fresh in everyone's mind, this is ill-timed, don't you think? The focus for Tim Thomas and the Bruins needs to be on hockey right now, and this doesn't help. [PHT]
Shane Doan is cognizant of the fact that he may not be a Phoenix Coyote forever, despite his wishes. [Winnipeg Free Press]
Bourne gets technical: killing a 5-on-3, now with more MS Paint! [Backhand Shelf]
In an NHL players poll, Henrik Lundqvist and Pekka Rinne are tied for toughest goalie to beat in the shootout. [SI]
Winnipeg could be the site of a future Heritage Classic. Seems like a no brainer. [Winnipeg Free Press]
Cool story about a local guy here in Victoria getting an internship with the Edmonton Oilers after doing commentary for the Junior B Saanich Braves. He's a grad from the same communications program I took at Camosun College. [VicNews]
I came across a terrific blog in my travels yesterday, Hockey by Design. Being a designer myself, I've thought several times of starting a similar site. Glad somebody did.
Extras
Theory of Ice wrote a really great piece on the state of hockey blogging, and what it means to be a hockey fan who enjoys writing about it.
The great unfulfilled promise of the blogosphere was that here fans might wrench the great mass of hockey writing and hockey thought out of the grip of the NHL and its acolytes, that it might be a place where the incredible mad diversity of hockey people- not pros, just people- could express their own vision and experience of the game. The fan/amateur population is by far the largest demographic slice of the hockey world, and it is not right that we should be passive consumers of one League's representation of the game. The blogosphere could have set us free. It hasn't, but it could have. On some level, I feel as though I'm selling out.
In the past couple months I've gone from occasionally writing my stupid nonsense at Game 7 Hockey to writing this post everyday, so I relate to this. But I thoroughly enjoy writing this post everyday. The community here is awesome, and I always look forward to the inspired conversations that usually arise in the comments.
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Henrik #Sedin says the CT scan showed no fracture so he is going to try and skate this morning. #Vancouver #Canucks
Reported on TEAM this AM though ( “said its really sore still, going to try, but game time decision” )…I vote for him scuttling the “streak” and sitting until there is no pain. Bring up Schoeder and give him a couple games to show what he can do.
Oh, and Duco is up, which probably means that Weise was hurt bad enough taking a shot last game to miss the next one.
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Good news about Hank…I think? Wouldn’t want him to try and play through it and make it worse.
by Jordan Clarke on Feb 9, 2012 9:06 AM PST up reply actions
thank goodness
I’m using my phone so I had a hard time trying to find info. Old smartphone…sucks hard.
I hope he sits out tbe game if its really painful…we’ll survive. Though he probably takes alot of pride in that ironman streak.
They once made a Kevin Bieksa toilet paper, but it wouldn't take shit from anybody.
#37 Ryp
by raincity on Feb 9, 2012 11:44 AM PST via mobile up reply actions
I already didn't much like Thomas
Today he reveals he’s a theist who insists his beliefs should be applied to public policy. Now I really, truly dislike him.
his opinions mean nothing to me
They are his own, and there are plenty of obtuse people saying the same things down there.
But this attitude of putting provocative things out and then saying that he won’t talk about them…thats the idiotic and worthy of nothing but the ridicule it has engendered thing, even in Boston.
Looks good on him, and I am laughing, but that kind of…well, feeling of being special and that he is the only public figure in the USA that can say politically provocative things and then say SHUT UP….I can’t talk about that…
Its ridiculous
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In fairness I think his denial of climate change is defensible
because how can the earth be getting hotter when every time he goes to work it’s really icy.
by FormerHab on Feb 9, 2012 11:07 AM PST up reply actions 4 recs
+1
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Feb 9, 2012 11:46 AM PST up reply actions
Unfortunately
that tactic (this is my opinion, I’m entitled to it, so shut up) is awfully common among the disingenuous and the intellectually dishonest. They don’t like criticism because they KNOW they can’t rationally defend what they argue. They just want to spout and demand immunity from that strange thing called “logic.”
So Thomas has gone from smug-fuck-who’s-an-awesome-netminder to brainless-fucktard-who-doesn’t-have-the-balls-to-defend-his-point-of-view.
by Geodetic on Feb 9, 2012 11:16 AM PST up reply actions 2 recs
bahahaha
MHCranberry M.H.C.
And @HackswithHaggs knows as much about freedom of the press as Tim Thomas does about the Miranda rights. Cataclysm of stupidity.
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I Wonder
What major domestic or foreign policy talking point he’ll bring up next, with hazy recollections of Hollywood movies and quotes from google to enlighten us all. With random Capitalization for Everyone.
sigh...
anyone wanna buy a slightly used Tim Thomas jersey? Nobody… Bueller?
I’m with you on the dislike bandwagon now
what's this?
a Bruins fan on the TT dislike bandwagon??
did hell freeze over or something???
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and it gets worse...
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just reading the URL is enough to know what’s up.
oh boy…..
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I guess I’m in the minority of going from a huge TT hater to a huge fan after he snubbed that piece of shit Obama.
"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)
depends on your views
we are seeing it as silly that he will post this stuff somewhere publicly like FB, then refuse to talk about it.
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He posted his opinions on Facebook did he not?
And last time I checked you had to go to Facebook to view posts made by someone, unless you had him as a friend of course. So he didn’t come knocking on your door at an ugly time of day or try to push a pamphlet in your face while you get on the bus.
So isn’t it a lot sillier for people to be taking offense for him refusing to talk about his post(s) when he didn’t push them on anyone? He said his peace, people who wanted to read it could go, people who don’t like him could stay away.
I don’t really see anything wrong with that, however much I disagree with his views.
Why not be like everyone else
And keep your personal opinions, I don’t know, personal? The minute he chose to make them public he invited discussion and he had to know that. Why else is he using a public forum like Facebook? The whole thing is bizarre.
Um
so when Sarah Palin uses Facebook ( and Twitter) exclusively to communicate her equally profound and wrongheaded views, she is the same right?
Its just the “lame stream media”, not the only thing the public has to get a feel for what they mean.
He is an entertainer, and people buy tickets and jerseys accordingly. They watch on TV accordingly. Same as Dame Sarah…except she at least backs up her profoundly ridiculous ( and just as political screeds ) statements…even if it is just FOX ( an employer!)
Its not whether you see anything right or wrong at all Exand. Conversely, I can see no logical reason why he should be able to hide behind the 1st Ammend that prorects the press that want to ask those questions either.
Facebook is public, regardless of the “settings”. People out there every day get judged and hired all the time on what they put there. ( Employers look at Facebook all the time )
Why should he be any different.
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It's not about right or wrong
Or left or right.
All I’m saying is so what if he expresses his opinions on Facebook? Or Twitter. Or Google+. The only reason you’d get mad or upset over it is if you take offense to someone expressing their views.
@TomServo42, that’s not how Facebook works. To view the post, you have to either be following him, in which case it will show up in your Wall summary of people you follow, or you have to purposely go to his Facebook Wall and look at the post. So if you happen to be someone following Tim Thomas or checking out his Facebook page, both by your own free will, then I don’t see why you shouldn’t be exposed to whatever he wants to say.
@Canuckelhead, isn’t that what Facebook is all about? Forming a group of people, in this case people who follow Tim Thomas, and sharing ideas and opinions (and occasionally naked pictures)? If you follow him or look at his page and see something you don’t like, that’s your problem (the proverbial “you”). If he posted his opinion on Facebook THEN used the ensuing media attention to babble on about this or that, then I’d be more inclined to agree. But I don’t see why putting up an opinion piece is in anyway “wrong”.
Ultimately the majority of the people are jumping on Thomas because they don’t like his views. It’s not about him ducking the media, that’s just a red herring.
Compare that to this:
A church in Montreal is allowed to do this sort of thing:
http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1128915—catholic-church-urges-montreal-canadiens-fans-to-pray-for-a-playoff-berth
and not get any flack from it. This is a religious organization that’s blatantly trying to push their agenda on people reading a newspaper. Newspaper that aren’t meant just for followers of that particular church / religion.
BTW
I think Thomas’s views are idiotic.
I’m just taking issue with a lot of hypocritical people jumping on the righteous bandwagon acting like it’s a sin for Thomas to be expressing his views to people who bother following him and refusing to talk to the media.
I do not presently follow Tim Thomas and I can view his posts just fine. It’s a fan page (in this case, a “like” rather than “friend”), which can be accessed publicly via URL without having a facebook account. Try it out: https://www.facebook.com/#!/TimThomasOfficialPage
I'm out, peace - Tim Thomas
You missed my second point
“or you have to purposely go to his Facebook Wall and look at the post.”
You purposely went to his page. That makes you fair game to whatever he wants to say.
or read it on the hundreds of media outlets that further publicized this public statement
I'm out, peace - Tim Thomas
And when he was asked about it by the media
He said (albeit in a rather douchy way), “no comment” instead of using the opportunity the mass media was giving him to go off further on a rant that would have been seen by anyone watching sports news.
Putting it another way, if media hadn’t picked up on the Facebook post, would you have heard or seen it?
I probably would have as a fan of the team, given that he posted it on the fan page for Tim Thomas, athelete with the Boston Bruins, rather than on a private account. If he wants to publicize his beliefs with a public outlet (which social media is, particularly when it is under the auspices of a professional identity), he’s welcome to, but he should also expect that as a celebrity, he’s going to receive media inquiries for followup. He can chose to be a private or public person, has opted to be public, and can’t seem to process the ramifications of that choice.
I'm out, peace - Tim Thomas
I do agree
That as a celebrity, he should watch what he says. But at the same time I don’t have an issue with him expressing his opinions in a non-aggressive way. There’s also an added bonus now I know I hate him even more :P
As for not following up with the media, he could easily have taken the opportunity to further his “cause” by giving some long rant through media interviews, and (so far) he hasn’t.
If he goes off now and does some deep interview with Barbara Walters or goes on Good Morning America talking about why he didn’t want to speak to the media, then I’ll stop defending the guy.
But so far I haven’t seen him doing any of that. So it seems like a media witch hunt more than anything else.
The difference between social media and mainstream media is pretty negligible at this point. So I would suggest that posting a statement on your fan page on facebook is the same as posting it in any other media outlet. I mean, the only difference between this and a press release is that people might be able to ignore a press release.
whoops, trying that again: http://www.facebook.com/TimThomasOfficialPage
I'm out, peace - Tim Thomas
Can't be worse
than Perry or Santorum.
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Feb 9, 2012 9:22 PM PST up reply actions
Sister my ASS!!
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Per Rick Ball: Henrik Sedin says he felt okay during morning skate. He’s a gametime decision
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Probably a deep bruise
or bone bruise.
"I'll play on one leg, I don't care." - Ryan Kesler
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Feb 9, 2012 11:47 AM PST up reply actions
BONE BR00Z OW FUCK OW
Got one when I was in high school playing football. HURTS LIKE FUCK.
Hank must be made of titanium.
Got one when I was 18
didn’t fully heal for the whole summer.
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by Chuckles Canuckles on Feb 9, 2012 9:20 PM PST up reply actions
Keep the streak alive!
I know iron man means nothing but I think he has a real shot at the record if he plays through this. With no fracture he can’t really make foot any worse.
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