The Canucks pro scouting department has been among the leagues worst for years now.
"You've got to know when to hold 'em, know when to fold em."
Doubt Benning listens to Kenny Rogers while eating a plate of meat and potatoes.
Can you imagine the state of this franchise if we hadn't traded Schneider for Horvat?
can you imagine if we still had Mike Gillis
Luongo leaves again with an injury. Poor guy, clearly loves the game.
Roussell isn’t a dirty player, he plays hard and agitates but from my POV he does it clean he’s never been suspended and he fights to stand up for himself unlike the players we’re talking about aka Tkachuk, Cooke, Marchand, and other DIRTY players who clearly intend to injure other players. Nice try though.
No, that is completely wrong.Re: Hamhuis. I think Canucks were accurate with Hamhuis. He seemed done. I speculate he realized this and did a major personal renovation. Plain talk from his agent might have been it, too. Hamhuis resurrected himself more than Canucks misread him, IMO.
This instance shouldn't be read as a defense of Canucks player management. In general, I think they get it when a guy is finished (unless there is much money involved). What they can't do is acquire guys. This is why they gamble on questionable signings. Players avoid Canucks like the plague because of the team's reputation in the hockey community. Canucks "burn" guys and it is well known. No player with the option to go to a normal workplace will come here instead. This handcuffs the hell out of anybody who tries to sign a player for Vancouver. Aquilini just throws ridiculous money occasionally, beyond that....
Ah yeah, now lets move forward 5 days...
On this, I couldn't help but notice Nick Kypreos of all people responding (logically, in my view) that sure, he'd bite down too if a guy shoves his fingers in there.
WHERE WAS THAT DURING THE 2011 CHARACTER ASSASSINATION OF BURROWS?! I assume Kypreos was piling on with everybody else.
Like I say, I was making the assumption that Kypreos would side with Hockey Men™ in 2011 but didn't actually know. But that quote does seem to confirm the assumption.It is hard to find quotes from 7 years ago, other than from a random blogger. Is this the piling on that you are referring to?
"...Seriously, biting another player on the ice. Alex Burrows should be suspended by the NHL for this bush league move. According to Nick Kypreos from Sportsnet.ca, he seems to think that Alex “the hack” Burrows won’t get suspended by the NHL..."
Goon's World: Alex Burrows
Spot on.The way the team booted out Hamhuis, despite devoting so much into this organization and still being way better than our other defencemen, was absolutely disgusting.
The fact that we didn't trade him for anything is just an afterthought.
The way the team booted out Hamhuis, despite devoting so much into this organization and still being way better than our other defencemen, was absolutely disgusting.
The fact that we didn't trade him for anything is just an afterthought.
Luongo leaves again with an injury. Poor guy, clearly loves the game.
Look the hit Hutton's game took the first time he got stuck with Guds for a prolonged length of time.I wonder if Stecher would be a different player now if he got stapled to someone like Hamhuis. He came in with crazy good shot generation and now it’s gone along with the rest of his offensive game
Gudbranson is putting up historical +/- numbers, so theres thatMcCann has been heating up lately with 3 goals in his last 5 games. I think he was recently promoted from the 3rd line to the 2nd line. Looks like he could have a 40+ point season this year.