HAPPY BIRTHDAY! The Erik Gudbranson era is over!

[platotld]

No. It's just that he is slowed by his gigantic balls.

From his performance on ice when teammates have been needing a stand up fella to help them out, I would say he does not have said
balls.

 

[tantalum]

From his performance on ice when teammates have been needing a stand up fella to help them out, I would say he does not have said
balls.

 

[mathonwy]

Anyone think Gud might be playing with a lower body injury?

I'm guessing shoulder and groin.

He looks like an old man out there. Hunched over and almost purposefully trying to never extend himself.

 

[sandwichbird2023]

He was born 15 years too late. In the dead puck era, he would've been a valuable #4, holding up the F, grinding in the corner, facewashing the other team in front of his net and chipping the puck out off the glass the first chance he gets. His lack of speed and skill would not be noticeable back then, except maybe against the Avs and Wings.

 

[Tim Calhoun]

With a -2 tonight, Gudbranson is now -97 in his career. When will he hit the impressive negative three-digit milestone? Monday vs Anaheim, or Wednesday at Colorado?

 

[Melvin]

Congrats to Erik Gudbranson, whose -27 rating now leads the masters.

Remember when some posters tried to claim he was playing well because he was +4 through 3 games or whatever the hell it was? Lmfao.

Nobody within ten feet of him are even close to his abysmal point production either.

Honest question, does Jim "eye for talent" Benning still think this is a good hockey player?

 

[PuckMunchkin]

He was born 15 years too late. In the dead puck era, he would've been a valuable #4, holding up the F, grinding in the corner, facewashing the other team in front of his net and chipping the puck out off the glass the first chance he gets. His lack of speed and skill would not be noticeable back then, except maybe against the Avs and Wings.

He loses most of his board battles. Like 4 out of 5. You are being dazzled by his reputation as some physical force that he just isnt.

 

[Cancuks]

I think Dim Jim has a school girl crush on Guddy and is just blinded by his handsomeness.

 

[Pavel96]

With a -2 tonight, Gudbranson is now -97 in his career. When will he hit the impressive negative three-digit milestone? Monday vs Anaheim, or Wednesday at Colorado?

Don't worry, "He has less than a career -100, it takes a career -300 to really learn to defend"

 

[AwesomeInTheory]

Congrats to Erik Gudbranson, whose -27 rating now leads the masters.

+/- is a meaningless stat, or something, ha ha haaaaa.

The Vancouver Sun has made the "Benning talent whisperer work speaks for itself" article unavailable. I wonder why.

E: Found a working version:

New Canucks GM Jim Benning's talent whisperer's work speaks volumes

 

[lawrence]

Most of pettersson minus comes when he’s on the ice with gudbranson. The reason why gudbranson is put into a shift with pettersson is that he is the best bet of compensating for gudbranson terrible play.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Most of pettersson minus comes when he’s on the ice with gudbranson. The reason why gudbranson is put into a shift with pettersson is that he is the best bet of compensating for gudbranson terrible play.

It drives me f***ing crazy how many times I see Pettersson passing back to the point...and there's Gudbranson there. Getting really really sick of Green trying valiantly to keep the Gudbranson pairing's +/- above freezing by constantly throwing them out there with Pettersson's line.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Most of pettersson minus comes when he’s on the ice with gudbranson. The reason why gudbranson is put into a shift with pettersson is that he is the best bet of compensating for gudbranson terrible play.

I've noticed this too.

They are trying to make the Gudbranson resigning look better, I guess.

 

[Megaterio Llamas]

+/- is a meaningless stat, or something, ha ha haaaaa.

The Vancouver Sun has made the "Benning talent whisperer work speaks for itself" article unavailable. I wonder why.

E: Found a working version:

New Canucks GM Jim Benning's talent whisperer's work speaks volumes

This is great thanks

"We’ll see on Friday, but Jim Benning has never been big on words. He hasn’t much needed them."

“I would say he was careful with his words,” Benning’s younger brother, Brian, said Wednesday from home in Edmonton. “I was a little more talkative. But it’s time to step out and lead, right? He’ll have no problems doing that."

 

[Peen]

CRINGE

 

[Melvin]

That's called "trolling."

 

[Peen]

That's called "trolling."

It isn't

The guy is dead serious

 

[Melvin]

It isn't

The guy is dead serious

I'm sure he believes it to some extent, but he's clearly exaggerating for attention.

 

[Megaterio Llamas]

It's actually the most effective kind of trolling. He believes it, but at the same time he knows it's annoying.

 

[sting101]

1	Erik Gudbranson, D	VAN	57	2	6	8	-27	83	0.14	72	2.8	1	0	0	0	0
2	Maxime Lajoie, D	OTT	56	7	8	15	-25	20	0.27	79	8.9	0	4	4	0	0
3	Michael Matheson, D	FLA	56	5	15	20	-23	32	0.36	97	5.2	2	0	6	0	0
	Drew Doughty, D	LA	61	5	28	33	-23	30	0.54	119	4.2	0	5	13	0	1
5	Brendan Perlini, LW	CHI/ARI	51	5	5	10	-22	26	0.20	79	6.3	0	2	2	0	0
	Rasmus Ristolainen, D	BUF	61	5	32	37	-22	30	0.61	150	3.3	2	1	12	0	0
7	Cody Ceci, D	OTT	57	5	15	20	-21	12	0.35	96	5.2	1	0	0	0	0
	Ryan Getzlaf, C	ANA	54	11	28	39	-21	40	0.72	116	9.5	2	1	8	0	0
	Mike Hoffman, LW	FLA	60	26	25	51	-21	20	0.85	190	13.7	5	11	15	0	0
10	Dennis Cholowski, D	DET	52	7	9	16	-20	16	0.31	71	9.9	1	4	5	0	0

[TBODY] [/TBODY]

It really is a good feeling to have a Canuck leading the league in at least one statistical category

 

[Lindgren]

I'm sure he believes it to some extent, but he's clearly exaggerating for attention.

I don't think he's exaggerating. I think he's being refreshingly honest about something that frequently produces dishonesty.

Supporters of "toughness" will argue endlessly, without supporting evidence, that it contributes to winning, when what's really going on is that having players who will beat up other players is simply important to them for its own sake.

Years ago I read a fascinating article about junior hockey in Flin Flon. The fans there would boo the team in the third period, no matter the score, if there hadn't been enough fights. That's an extreme version of a mentality that's quite pervasive. Some fans feel that the team expresses their own identity vicariously, and they want that identify to be ... tough.

 

[RobertKron]

I don't think he's exaggerating. I think he's being refreshingly honest about something that frequently produces dishonesty.

Supporters of "toughness" will argue endlessly, without supporting evidence, that it contributes to winning, when what's really going on is that having players who will beat up other players is simply important to them for its own sake.

Years ago I read a fascinating article about junior hockey in Flin Flon. The fans there would boo the team in the third period, no matter the score, if there hadn't been enough fights. That's an extreme version of a mentality that's quite pervasive. Some fans feel that the team expresses their own identity vicariously, and they want that identify to be ... tough.

There are a surprising number of hockey fans who actually barely care about the hockey part of the sport at all.

 

[Hollywood Burrows]

 

[TraderJim]

I don't think he's exaggerating. I think he's being refreshingly honest about something that frequently produces dishonesty.

Supporters of "toughness" will argue endlessly, without supporting evidence, that it contributes to winning, when what's really going on is that having players who will beat up other players is simply important to them for its own sake.

Years ago I read a fascinating article about junior hockey in Flin Flon. The fans there would boo the team in the third period, no matter the score, if there hadn't been enough fights. That's an extreme version of a mentality that's quite pervasive. Some fans feel that the team expresses their own identity vicariously, and they want that identify to be ... tough.

Sure if he was talking about Odjick or Dale Hunter. We are talking about Eric Gudbranson. I was a fan in the 80s with all the fights, if anyone mentions Gudbranson in the same way as some sort of "TOUGH GUY" is absolutely out of their mind. He is softer in the corners than Biega. He constantly loses his man in front and does not exact any kind of rough play in front of the net. He is a fake tough guy not a real one.

He can't play hockey and he isn't bringing any toughness to a team that is in dire need of toughness. He has failed every aspect of his role here.

 

[Peen]

I saw that live and literally just said wtf..