arttk
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"If we put him on LTIR he'll have to go to Europe. I've seen this before." - John Weisbrod.
This must be old, please.
"If we put him on LTIR he'll have to go to Europe. I've seen this before." - John Weisbrod.
I went from not caring about this season to being excited to see these kids play - finally some spark and creativity on this team! I personally don't expect both McCann and Virtanen to last past the 9 games, I'd be pleasantly surprised if both of them show they belong in real NHL games, but I'm not expecting it from both. Still, 9 games for a 19 year old is a great transitional season to full time next year. It will be very fun to watch 3-4 young skilled players all season long regardless of if one of them ends up being sent down.
I went from not caring about this season to being excited to see these kids play - finally some spark and creativity on this team! I personally don't expect both McCann and Virtanen to last past the 9 games, I'd be pleasantly surprised if both of them show they belong in real NHL games, but I'm not expecting it from both. Still, 9 games for a 19 year old is a great transitional season to full time next year. It will be very fun to watch 3-4 young skilled players all season long regardless of if one of them ends up being sent down.
Yep, hell of a lot more fun that what Lindenning had planned for the year. Those two were completely out to lunch with what the fan base wanted to see. Maybe they finally got the message from the sheet and disillusioned fans. Between the kids putting up their hands and angry and disillusioned fans lobbying for change the season might just be saved.
Hopefully it will put to rest the "fans won't support a young team" nonsense they were spouting a few months back.
I feel McCann will be sent down and virt will stay for the year eventually. Hutton... Who knows..
Then again no one expected either Hutton or McCann to look this good
Never said anything like that. Said the fans wouldn't support a complete tear down tank. You know, ditching the Sedins etc and rolling our AHL team out there every night. And they're right, look how much trouble this board is having during the early stages of the current retool.
Never said anything like that. Said the fans wouldn't support a complete tear down tank. You know, ditching the Sedins etc and rolling our AHL team out there every night. And they're right, look how much trouble this board is having during the early stages of the current retool.
I think the problem has more to do with "tearing it down" only to bring in older or limited guys like Miller, Prust, Sutter, Sbisa, and Dorsett while moving out picks and prospects to do it.
It's 50% retool and 50% ... something else. If it was a clear retool with younger, cheaper players and an accumulation of draft picks I'm confident the response would be very different.
just watched the media day clips of mccann, virt and hutton, with an ad in between of bo horvat on the cover of the pharmasave calendar.
man, i'm so pumped for this season! i went from 0 to 60 in 3 seconds flat.
Different on these boards, maybe. But we're talking about the general fanbase as a whole. Vancouver fans have traditionally shown to be pretty fair weathered. Again, the fan base as a whole, not the few percent that frequent message boards.
Regardless, I responded to a poster saying Linden said the fans wouldn't support a young team when he actually a said wouldn't support a rebuild. Different things, and I believe Linden is correct.
Not to mention one specific super fan who also signs Trevs paycheque.
Different on these boards, maybe. But we're talking about the general fanbase as a whole. Vancouver fans have traditionally shown to be pretty fair weathered. Again, the fan base as a whole, not the few percent that frequent message boards.
Regardless, I responded to a poster saying Linden said the fans wouldn't support a young team when he actually a said wouldn't support a rebuild. Different things, and I believe Linden is correct.
Not to mention one specific super fan who also signs Trevs paycheque.
Fans aren't stupid, they won't support junk, when the fans left in the 90s it was because the team was junk. The kind of junk which is exactly what Benning and Linden wanted to serve up this year. Sutter at 2C, Prust-Vey-Dorsett, 3 top 5 dmen, Miller redux. Blah.
The injection of youth has completely transformed the team, that injection came against the expectations and plans of Lindenning. Winning our lose the team which be much better to watch just for the growth of the kids alone.
ill give one thing to jim benning - if there's any gm that's capable of sussing out whether or not corrado is likely to be claimed, its him. between his Good Guy Demeanor and his likely ridiculous work ethic im guessing he's got a handle on most of the teams he would be concerned about and judged them unlikely to claim corrado
gotta just hope for the best i guess
well, that was a predictable outcome to corrado being waived. im sure glad we have spots for the worst player in the nhl