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.

 

[F A N]

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.

We also don't want to wonder if we would have won more games if only Derek Ryan scored more goals.

 

[tantalum]

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

It sure would....Neither of these guys are that.

 

[Dana Murzyn]

I finally checked out a few of Rempe's fights the other day, expecting to see some kind of monster, but... does he ever actually win fights? Seems like he just ties or loses while being big, and then makes dangerous hits. I feel bad for the kid. It's a stupid sideshow and we know how it ends: either he fizzles out or he does something horrible. Neither will be fun to watch.

 

[tantalum]

I finally checked out a few of Rempe's fights the other day, expecting to see some kind of monster, but... does he ever actually win fights? Seems like he just ties or loses while being big, and then makes dangerous hits. I feel bad for the kid. It's a stupid sideshow and we know how it ends: either he fizzles out or he does something horrible. Neither will be fun to watch.

He's a bad player. He is tall. That's about it. He can't play hockey and he is not a good fighter. Good for him for getting some NHL $$$ because he's not long for the league. I suspect that within another year or two he's going to be gooning it up in the ECHL or SPHL

 

[Jyrki21]

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

I don't even understand how/why fights happen with helmets and visors on. They don't even go for body shots, all they're doing is cracking their knuckles open.

 

[SeawaterOnIce]

He's a bad player. He is tall. That's about it. He can't play hockey and he is not a good fighter. Good for him for getting some NHL $$$ because he's not long for the league. I suspect that within another year or two he's going to be gooning it up in the ECHL or SPHL

I loved fighting and goonery back in the 90s. It would get a whole crowd going and it was equally better when someone got knocked out.

But then we saw multiple enforcers drop dead due to depression, CTE and other causes pertaining to head trauma.

Fighting is lame. I can't get up to watch that shit anymore. I long for the day when NHL GMs stop calling up talentless 4th line goons.

 

[StreetHawk]

I loved fighting and goonery back in the 90s. It would get a whole crowd going and it was equally better when someone got knocked out.

But then we saw multiple enforcers drop dead due to depression, CTE and other causes pertaining to head trauma.

Fighting is lame. I can't get up to watch that shit anymore. I long for the day when NHL GMs stop calling up talentless 4th line goons.

Watched enough hockey to agree that goons days should be over. As for fighting, I'm ok to leave it in, but hoping it is used sparingly. Cause, I agree stick would, like we saw Saturday will occur more as guys don't fight. But, that was also a perfect case to show why the NHL won't go heavy on suspensions as they would have no issue to suspend Soucy or Myers for it, but when it's McDavid, they can't give him less for the same infraction. Always a chance a top player will cross the line and the NHL doesn't want those guys out for 2 weeks worth of games.

 

[Reverend Mayhem]

The 2012 Battle of Pennsylvania was the best series I've seen. Keep fighting in.