Vancouver Sports Media Thread

[Breakers]

IMac says management have done nothing wrong and blames the fans.

He's the worst

 

[racerjoe]

IMac says management have done nothing wrong and blames the fans.

He's the worst

I use to really like I mac, but he really has become the worst. The Canucks could trade Bo for Vanek in the offseason for the chance to re-sign him before anyone else and he would find a way to say it was a good move.

I am a Gillis fan but I can admit the mistakes he made on the way or the good move Benning made. If you can't you just lose your entire credibility.

 

[Melvin]

I use to really like I mac, but he really has become the worst. The Canucks could trade Bo for Vanek in the offseason for the chance to re-sign him before anyone else and he would find a way to say it was a good move.

I am a Gillis fan but I can admit the mistakes he made on the way or the good move Benning made. If you can't you just lose your entire credibility.

The guy basically tore gillis apart every time he wrote a column, but since management changed he somehow finds it impossible to criticize a team that finishes last for three straight years.

It is absolutely pathetic.

 

[racerjoe]

The guy basically tore gillis apart every time he wrote a column, but since management changed he somehow finds it impossible to criticize a team that finishes last for three straight years.

It is absolutely pathetic.

The only thing I like about it now is I can find out exactly what management is thinking.

 

[Pavel96]

The only thing I like about it now is I can find out exactly what management is thinking.

Too funny lol!

 

[DownGoesMcDavid]

Imac is the best!

$$$$

 

[Breakers]

iMac didn't like Gillis if I remember.

 

[WTG]

Imagine European sports media covering this team.

Linden and Benning would be absolutely ripped to shreds. This markets media is insanely tame, to say otherwise is just being ignorant of other markets.

 

[cabinessence]

This whole new thing the stations are running now about the Vancouver media being so negative! Who brought up this controversy ad nauseam? Maybe...the media? Again creating their own controversy. It is so frustrating to listen to that I am left with no choice but to turn it off.

 

[cabinessence]

Well to be honest Tomlinson looks in the mirror and see's Motte staring back at him...plugs stick up for each other.

All 42 games of his career. I find it funny that once in a while he recalls scoring his first NHL goal, while omitting the fact that it was his first and last.

 

[MikeK]

Does Imac have no shame? What a total shill. I really am sick of this guy.

 

[boringasheck]

Not sure what the rules are on promoting your own podcast here, but I figured some of you may want to listen to our latest episode, in which we talk about the deadline and the state of the team for about an hour. It gets really, really depressing.

 

[theoriginalBCF]

The guy basically tore gillis apart every time he wrote a column, but since management changed he somehow finds it impossible to criticize a team that finishes last for three straight years.

It is absolutely pathetic.

I've had a couple people tell me He and Sekeras are huge in with Trevor. They get a lot of their material or rumors from Trevor. Can anyone confirm this?

 

[theoriginalBCF]

All 42 games of his career. I find it funny that once in a while he recalls scoring his first NHL goal, while omitting the fact that it was his first and last.

At least he played, unlike a lot of us here. Honestly how many ex-nhl players are there on this board? I don't like everything he says, but he played in the league. More than I have ever done.

 

[Melvin]

I've had a couple people tell me He and Sekeras are huge in with Trevor. They get a lot of their material or rumors from Trevor. Can anyone confirm this?

Seems incredibly likely.

He was talking about linden for president long before it was even reported. I posted the link before.

Edit: talking about iMac. No clue about Sekeras.

 

[Hit the post]

At least he played, unlike a lot of us here. Honestly how many ex-nhl players are there on this board? I don't like everything he says, but he played in the league. More than I have ever done.

Milbury had a more than respectable NHL career (over 750 games). I might still hold your opinion on hockey matters higher than his.

 

[Burke's Evil Spirit]

I've had a couple people tell me He and Sekeras are huge in with Trevor. They get a lot of their material or rumors from Trevor. Can anyone confirm this?

Sekeres is one of the most critical guys in this market, I don't think that's true at all.

 

[m9]

I ragged on Gilman being boring when he was first on the radio, but he's been must-listen lately. Great stuff today about his regime's issues with drafting in the WHL and how they overvalued the Q.

 

[ATypicalCanadian]

I've had a couple people tell me He and Sekeras are huge in with Trevor. They get a lot of their material or rumors from Trevor. Can anyone confirm this?

Imac is 100% in with Linden/the Canucks. Every article he writes supports their movement and is usually painful to read. That article on how a Gudbranson deal for picks would have been bad was awful to read and was clearly a "pass the message" type article.


Sekeres 100% has a source with the Canucks, but I also think they've gotten more negative towards the team in the last year and I can't see him being close to Linden. There was also rumors of the Canucks trying to get 1040 to tone down their attitude against the team if I remember correctly.

 

[m9]

It just shows his laziness. To not do any research in the last 20 hours on motte.

I think I actually agreed with Pratt's side, he just isn't knowledgeable enough to win that debate with Tomlinson.

 

[NoShowWilly]

I think I actually agreed with Pratt's side, he just isn't knowledgeable enough to win that debate with Tomlinson.

Yeah pratts not doing you any favours when he takes your side.

 

[cabinessence]

I think I actually agreed with Pratt's side, he just isn't knowledgeable enough to win that debate with Tomlinson.

I am not sure how anyone could agree with Pratt's side, if his side was get anything for Vanek. They got something and he says they got nothing. However, I can understand taking Pratt's side if you meant you wanted picks.

 

[Cupless44]

Just have to say how much I appreciate reading Jason Botchford. The Provies is the best read in Vancouver.

He is the guy who has got our back. He is the guy who gets it and tells it like it is.

Unlike the other Vancouver media shills who never ask or bring up the hard questions. I also have time for JPat.

 

[MikeK]

Agreed. Botch is the only writer I read these days. I use to read Imac's work but have no time for his garbage anymore. Botchford isn't perfect but at least he tells it like it is.

 

[Melvin]

Yeah the provies are must-read this morning, if only for this section.

I’ve seen media, like A&W for example, throw up hands in disbelief. He doesn’t understand the reaction this week in Van.
Why did fans build this particular TDL into some potentially organization-altering watershed moment?
Uh, that’s not what happened.
The reaction this week, in general, was a culmination of emotions which trace back all the way to 2014.
The reactions were, in part, because messages from the font office back then still echo to this day.
Their talk about how they were going to win and were impatient to do it:

The talk about turning the team around quickly:

The anti-rebuild talk:

It took until April, 2017 for the Canucks to say the word “rebuild.”
If you weren’t here, you may not got it.
It took three years for the org to publicly get to a point many fans wanted them to be at on Day 1 of the Linden and Benning era.
Their harshest critics, buoyed by a successful ’17 TDL were intrigued enough to think:
Maybe things will be different.
Maybe now, the Canucks would do, you know, rebuild moves,.
They hoped.
They waited.
At this TDL, dismiss it all you want, there were players to trade.
One of the biggest, most coveted and most expendable was Guddy. It was sitting right there. A hanging curveball.
But the team chose to extend him, and those who always defend the team said “Meh, cap space doesn’t matter and maybe he’ll be a matchup guy one day.”
When it was over, many lost hope.
Things they feared would not change.
And that right there is why you got the outpouring you did this week.

Not because they didn’t get a third for Vanek.

Whether you agree or not, whether you support Benning as GM or not, it is important to understand that this is where most of us are coming from.