Around the League Thread | New Year, New Me

[Jyrki21]

Saw this on Facebook, and it precedes the Kraken so it may not be 100% up to date, but I still found it kind of fascinating. I just assumed what the Canucks do (discussed in this forum sometimes), and what I’ve also heard about Ottawa (confirmed here) was the norm… but it isn’t.

I love the variation from the no-effort Blackhawks approach to the high-effort Canucks/Sens approach. The funniest has to be the NYI/STL offering them to the player. Like WTF is he going to do with 200 ballcaps?

 

[VanillaCoke]

Saw this on Facebook, and it precedes the Kraken so it may not be 100% up to date, but I still found it kind of fascinating. I just assumed what the Canucks do (discussed in this forum sometimes), and what I’ve also heard about Ottawa (confirmed here) was the norm… but it isn’t.

I love the variation from the no-effort Blackhawks approach to the high-effort Canucks/Sens approach. The funniest has to be the NYI/STL offering them to the player. Like WTF is he going to do with 200 ballcaps?

That is wild, I had never thought about it being any different than Vancouver and I'm amazed at the differences.

I always thought it was annoying to see ppl not throw their hats on TV or away games or whatnot, and love hattricks live so I can throw my hat immediately!

But that's all because I always just go get my hat back after the game, or the next time I'm at Rogers arena...

Very cool & nice thanks!

 

[ManVanFan]

He’s great on faceoffs - but his play has been trending downward for years. I think we are better off keeping Sasson in the lineup.

I was getting rid of PDG.

 

[ManVanFan]

Would be nice to have a tough guy who can still play hockey on the Canucks.

 

[December5th]

it looks so hard to punch someone without punching the visor lol

 

[ephmrl]

Would be nice to have a tough guy who can still play hockey on the Canucks.

Xhekaj can barely play hockey and directly caused a goal against with a brutal pass directly up the middle earlier in the game. Having a defenceman who can fight and play 12 minutes of low iq hockey a game isn't going to help with their issues moving the puck and creating offence.

 

[ManVanFan]

Xhekaj can barely play hockey and directly caused a goal against with a brutal pass directly up the middle earlier in the game. Having a defenceman who can fight and play 12 minutes of low iq hockey a game isn't going to help with their issues moving the puck and creating offence.

Did I say I wanted Xhekaj?

 

[andora]

Did I say I wanted Xhekaj?

Well then it was a confusing clip plus comment cause rempe is useless

So just a fight

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

It's not about fights

That loud beeping noise you hear wouldn't be you backing things up, would it?

it's about intensity, leadership, urgency and identity. This team doesn't have enough of these things.

Ah, yes. Looks to be the case.

Boeser is a ghost most nights, Miller is mentally unhinged and our highest paid player is a mal nutritioned pencil neck from Sweden.

This franchise is allergic to character and leadership which is why we watch guys like Tanev, Toffoli, Cole and Zadorov walk for nothing.

Tanev and Toffoli were both catastrophic blunders from our previous GM who was pants on head levels of moronic. Trying to conflate that into a 'character issue' is misleading when it was a 'management issue.'

Both wanted to stay but Benning couldn't be arsed to try and sign either of them.

Cole hasn't exactly been lighting the world on fire and I imagine you'd be kvetching about Zadorov (who I was sad to see go and who I really wanted to have hang around) being overpaid if he was on the team with his current contract.

why did we even sign Deshernais if he doesn't know how to fight and doesn't play physical? He's tall and knows how to skate? Absolute joke

So are we talking about fighting or aren't we? lmao

Yeah and what about the last decade?

I mean what is the solution here? Just draft guys for their truculence? That worked out well.