FORMER Canucks thread Part TWO

[RussianRacket]

Yes. 650. He also elaborated, saying that everybody listened when Malhotra spoke—Sedins, everybody. Clearly he's quite the leader, though that's not really news.

Coach material, it was obvious at the time.

 

[Lindgren]

Coach material, it was obvious at the time.

Clearly. I remember reading that before his first season with the Canucks, when players had gathered for unofficial work-outs before training camp started, Malhotra was the guy leading those work-outs. Pretty striking.

 

[RussianRacket]

Underrated dark day in Canucks history when he took the puck to the eye.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

am i misremembering or didn’t he get an A in training camp of his first year here?

 

[ProstheticConscience]

My god, that poll is quite the rogue's gallery isn't it. Look at all the junk this team's collected.

 

[AussieBomberJet]

It sucks to see Canucks fans in this state. Apart from the Jets, the Canucks and Habs are my go-to's for who I would cheer for if the Jets are out of any contention and you guys are on the hunt. I really want to see the Canucks team and organisation improve sooner rather than later.

Deadmonton and the Laffs are trash and can lick a d***

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Remember when Gudbranson was logging all those minutes for the Panthers in the playoffs?

Him and Campbell formed a fantastic pair complementing each other.

Campbell was never the same after removed from Gudbranson.

 

[PuckMunchkin]

Underrated dark day in Canucks history when he took the puck to the eye.

But a silver lining.

Had the Canucks won the cup that day, maybe Gillis gets to keep his job for a bit longer and plunge the Canucks deeper in to the depths of hell from where Benning is now dragging them out kickin and screaming.

(The Canucks are kicking and screaming, not Jim Benning. He is calm cool and collected.)

 

[EpochLink]

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

as long as we are being salty and holding old grudges about media guys, ffff wyshynski. how dare he have anything to say about vancouver

 

[Get North]

Coach material, it was obvious at the time.

Malhotra's rookie season was with the Rangers when Gretzky retired in 1999. So many 80s legends on that team it's no wonder he's a coach now and was an effective player.

 

[Hit the post]

Remember when Gudbranson was logging all those minutes for the Panthers in the playoffs?

Frank Corrado looked decent in the time he was in the post-season for the Canucks. He couldn't even crack a horrible Laffs blueline corp later.

Give a guy like Hamhuis in his prime as a partner for Hughes & watch Hughes get Norris votes.

I remember Stecher & Hutton getting the increased minutes (as a result of injuries on the blueline) over NoGoodBranSuck when all three were Canucks.

 

[vanuck]

as long as we are being salty and holding old grudges about media guys, ffff wyshynski. how dare he have anything to say about vancouver

Didn't he used to throw shade at us back when he was still writing for his Puck Daddy blog? I distinctly remember there being a reason why I didn't like the guy circa 2010/2011.

 

[mathonwy]

Didn't he used to throw shade at us back when he was still writing for his Puck Daddy blog? I distinctly remember there being a reason why I didn't like the guy circa 2010/2011.

Everyone shits on everyone.

It's the circle of turds.

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

Didn't he used to throw shade at us back when he was still writing for his Puck Daddy blog? I distinctly remember there being a reason why I didn't like the guy circa 2010/2011.

he did. iirc he was smarmy and underinformed and basically just repeated the same falsehoods that everybody else who had never actually watched the canucks did. he also had this sort of unnecessarily aggressive “i like picking fights about sports” east coast sports fan vibe to him, like the asshole who dumped popcorn on russell westbrook last night.

i distinctly remember in the break between the ECF and the finals, he was on bill simmons’ espn podcast (because boston) and simmons goes, those sedin twins i keep hearing about, which one is the shooter and which is the passer again?

and wyshynski goes, neither, they take turns.

at the time he had probably the biggest platform in US hockey coverage and it said everything that he didn’t know literally the first thing about the last two scoring champs and best team in the league.

 

[M2Beezy]

Madden and a 2nd with the CRUCIAL 2-0 goal

 

[Melvin]

How many games do any of these skaters get after Vancouver?

eriksson - 0 most likely
Sutter - probably hangs on for awhile due to name recognition.
Myers - 0
Ferland 0
Roussel 0
Beagle 0
Pearson 0

im sure some of these won’t be literally 0 but there’s a decent chance the skaters in this poll combine for like 50 games after the Canucks. Just like Larsen, bartkowski, etc etc etc before them

 

[Hoglander]

How many games do any of these skaters get after Vancouver?

eriksson - 0 most likely
Sutter - probably hangs on for awhile due to name recognition.
Myers - 0
Ferland 0
Roussel 0
Beagle 0
Pearson 0

im sure some of these won’t be literally 0 but there’s a decent chance the skaters in this poll combine for like 50 games after the Canucks. Just like Larsen, bartkowski, etc etc etc before them

Some dinosaur GM probably sees Myers draft position and offers a short contract, and he performs like Sbisa
Ferland's career is already over
Roussel probably gets a league minimum deal and then is healthy scratched a lot
Beagle probably gets a PTO but fails to earn a contract
Depends if Pearson's skating degrades.

Of coarse, these are best-case scenarios

 

[David Bruce Banner]

Yeah, I only voted for guys that I could conceivably see having any kind of NHL career going forward, so no votes to Eriksson, Ferland, Baertschi, Chatfield and Spooner. Virtanen too, pending the results of legal troubles.

 

[Wry n Ginger]

Any updates on that creepy dude from Abbotsford?

 

[RussianRacket]

I live on Matsqui Unceded Territory and generally have my ear on the hockey community, but just crickets other than the usual "not surprised etc" chatter.

 

[M2Beezy]

Any updates on that creepy dude from Abbotsford?

Toews?

 

[F A N]

Guess the Canucks knew what they were doing when they signed Focht but are letting Keppan go.

 

[EpochLink]

So much joy…so much pain.

 

[supercanuck]

So much joy…so much pain.

Winning the first game with 19 secs left, and the 2nd game 11 secs into OT, I felt we were destined for the Cup. How wrong/stupid I was.