Addison Rae
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Agreed, he was clearly the 4th best dman on the team last year and was excellent on the power play.
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Agreed, he was clearly the 4th best dman on the team last year and was excellent on the power play.
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Why do people think Weber is so small? He's like two inches shorter than Bartowski, he's not Jordan Schroeder. He's also heavier than Bartowski and our supposed big, tough dman Luca Sbisa.
From the Canucks website:
Yannik Weber - 5'11 200 lbs (also the exact height and weight of Crosby)
Luca Sbisa - 6'2 198 lbs
Matt Bartowski - 6'1 196 lbs
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I do NOT understand the hate for Bartkwoski. He had a good pre season and skates really well. Weber is an absolute tire fire in his own end
Addison Rae
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smh. yeah well Calgary should just ice ferland on their top line over gaudrau because johny is 5'0 and will get beat up.
terrible post, wow/
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Weber is the same height as Dorsett.
Funny when you think about it.
Virtanen is a big guy, doubt he would get beat up.
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Addison Rae
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Luca Sbisa is a tire fire, Yannick Weber is a solid analytic d-man that's excellent on the power play.
Do you think Sbisa is better than Weber?
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Sbisa is better than no one. However, since he is absolutely not coming out of the lineup no matter how obvious it is that he should, he's not a factor in this discussion.
Weber had a solid regular season last year, and a dreadful playoff. He was particularly exposed physically and intellectually by the Flames' forecheck. I can completely understand him being sat.
And of course, in a perfect world, Sbisa wouldn't see the ice either.
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Pip
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Weber isn't small and isn't weak. He's also our best OFD right now and our best PP defenseman. He's also more than capable in his own end
I don't understand a lot of the hate he gets.
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ahhhh
Let's just wait till Hutton has played some NHL games....
I like Hutton but let's not put super high expectations on him.
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GO CANUCKS!!!
Addison Rae
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Weber was a huge part of our power play resurgence in the second half of the season. Not sure why you're suggesting he was bad in the playoffs either, he and Hamhuis absolutely destroyed the Flames in terms of shot attempts. (even more than Edler/Tanev)
Playing Bartwoski over him is laughable, Weber at worst will still help our powerplay and drive possession at even strength.
Yannick Weber is also our best offensive d-man along with being a good possession driver, so in other words nothing like Vey whatsoever.
Addison Rae
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you're essentially telling us that your opinion is better than objective information..
xtra
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Even if weber occasionally gets muscled off the puck it's still better than sbisa always (or over 80% of the time) turning the puck over up the middle
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I don't hate Bartowski but he's just not as good as Weber. Neither are good in their own end. Bartowski is better in the neutral zone and a better skater but the moment he reaches the other team's blueline he becomes completely useless. There is a reason he doesn't have a single regular season goal. Weber on the other hand is very good in the offensive zone, something we don't really have a lot of on our defense.
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absolutely yes
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Yeah, and Sbisa excels at creating prime opportunities for the opposing team.
We need to utilize his strength.
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Weber is the perfect 7th dman in my opinion. Extremely glad we have him and even happier with him sitting.
I actually like Bartkowksi and Weber... Unfortunately we're never getting rid of Sbisa so it's kind of a moot point... To pick between Bart and Weber is tough... They know what they have in Weber so I'm assuming they just want to see what Bartkowskis got, wouldn't be surprised if they rotate the bottom 3 (Bart, Weber and Hutton) each game until someone really solidifies a spot.
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Was it Guy Boucher that carried Marc-Andre Bergeron as a 7th D, used almost exclusively on the powerplay?
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