Injury Report: Canucks Injury Thread - Mar. 12th - Kesler sent back to Vancouver for testing
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Stanton has been sent back to Vancouver for evaluation, meaning he’s out for the remainder of the trip (at Dallas on Thursday, at Chicago on Friday.) It’s likely that Andrew Alberts will draw back into the lineup.
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Torts confirms Stanton sent back to Vancouver #Canucks
Brad Ziemer@BradZiemer
Torts confirms Stanton sent back to Vancouver #Canucks
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Probably wait to see the extent of the injury to Stanton before they do anything. Evaluate Alberts too... I wouldn't rule out them calling up a defenceman by Monday if it's serious.
Staunton plays the left side? I can see the argument for putting in Alberts over Corrado in that spot, because of the side thing.
Me, I play both sides equally badly, and when you're in beer league who cares? I assume that at the NHL level, microseconds count and if you're not able to play your wrong side with ease, it actually matters.
Besides, if memory serves, Alberts always starts slow and then gets better as the season goes. He also has the long reach and size - with Edler out, the team seems a little small on the back end.
Me, I play both sides equally badly, and when you're in beer league who cares? I assume that at the NHL level, microseconds count and if you're not able to play your wrong side with ease, it actually matters.
Besides, if memory serves, Alberts always starts slow and then gets better as the season goes. He also has the long reach and size - with Edler out, the team seems a little small on the back end.
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Bieksa and Tanev had a couple shifts together last night and looked fine. Anything is better than Alberts.
Okay, fine. Not Cam Barker.
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This is the point in the season that Alberts gets to play a few in a row, starts to play well, then people are suddenly surprised, then he throws a massive hit and someone will bump the Alberts thread. He is a fine no 6.
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Perhaps, perhaps not. Remember when the Canucks went through a spate of D injuries and used 13 different D yet still won the Jennings?
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Just play Tanev 30 min a game. We need to test out how long the maximum battery life in this cyborg is anyways.
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The last time Alberts hit the ice, he gave up two quality scoring chances to the opposing team in a single shift. Will piss away points we desperately need come April.
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He's only signed by Utica apparently but they could always sign him and give him a try.
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Depends. If you play Alberts/Weber, you're keeping that pairing at around the 6-8 minute mark most likely. Alberts/Tanev and Hamhuis/Weber means that those two are getting more like 15 minutes each.
There's positives and negatives in both approaches.
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Alberts should be taken off the ice as soon as he makes his bad play when the game is close and up for grabs. He is one person on this team that can completely shift the games momentum with his errors and should only be put back on the ice only when the game is out of reach.
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