Peen
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Who’s the 2023-2024 Unsung Hero?
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HairyKneel
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VanJack gets my vote for the board.
On the team side I’ll take Nils Hoglander.
On the team side I’ll take Nils Hoglander.
PuckMunchkin
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Hoglander gets plenty of songs.
To me its a tie between Garland and Joshua. Both have been the two key pieces what makes the best 5on5 line for us all year. The only line that can control play away from Quinn Hughes.
Mr. Canucklehead
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I feel like Joshua, Garland and Hoglander have gotten plenty of praise. In comparison to the big guns not so much, but there's definitely guys on the roster who are less "Sung" than those three.
I voted for Joshua in the team awards.
I voted for Joshua in the team awards.
PuckMunchkin
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Me too.
I feel conflicted about him winning it back to back.
Why cant we sing his praises already?
It's probably Joshua but it feels weird to have a guy win it back-to-back.
Garland's journey from demanding a trade and doing nothing for the first 20 games to being one of our most important, consistent forwards would probably get him my vote.
It's weird going from the Benning years of 'nobody deserves this' - Markus Granlund astonishingly won this award once - to having like 10 guys who would be well-deserving selections.
Garland's journey from demanding a trade and doing nothing for the first 20 games to being one of our most important, consistent forwards would probably get him my vote.
It's weird going from the Benning years of 'nobody deserves this' - Markus Granlund astonishingly won this award once - to having like 10 guys who would be well-deserving selections.
PuckMunchkin
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I think we sing everyone this year. It's a good year. I'll go with Desmith. Been a solid back up and has allowed Demko to take an extended recovery before the playoffs
He had 5 points in the first 20 games, 2 goals in the first 33 games, was down around 10 minutes for a bunch of games, failed to click with Pettersson when given an opportunity, didn't work with Miller, didn't work on the PP, was demoted to bottom-6 minutes and then the line with Garland and Blueger took off in December.
The energy/battle/compete he's showed for the last 4 months didn't exist for the first 20 games of the season. He looked lost and it was probably his worst stretch of games as a Canuck. Everyone here was expecting him to be traded and wanting him to be traded.
Bourne Endeavor
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Garland got my vote.
He want from negative value to a pivotal part of the team and arguably forming the best third line in the league. It cannot be understated just how phenomenal his takeaway and board play is. Even against some of the league's elites, he manages to somehow eek the puck out from them. A lot of which doesn't get the praise it deserves since it's not the "sexy" play.
All in all, he's been absolutely fantastic and the very small bright spot in an otherwise horrendous trade.
He want from negative value to a pivotal part of the team and arguably forming the best third line in the league. It cannot be understated just how phenomenal his takeaway and board play is. Even against some of the league's elites, he manages to somehow eek the puck out from them. A lot of which doesn't get the praise it deserves since it's not the "sexy" play.
All in all, he's been absolutely fantastic and the very small bright spot in an otherwise horrendous trade.
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Most of those are sung heroes. I'd say Blueger or Juulsen. Garland gets the credit he deserves for sure. Juulsen being so solid made Soucys injury a lot less devastating.
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Soucy. Does all the little things right and the Canucks record with and without him in the lineup is pretty telling.
PuckMunchkin
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I'd tip my hat to Garland this season. The results have been hit or miss but he's hustled out there and had a good year after the last two. HM to Joshua and Soucy and Suter as well.
Everyone had positive goal differentials in the first 20-30 games of the season. Anthony Beauvillier had an 11-3 ES goal differential but that doesn't mean he was playing great.
Those with/without graphs are mostly useless because they aren't comparing apples to apples and you get results like 'everyone has better numbers with Goldobin!'.
And also those numbers are from the whole season, and nobody is disputing that his last 50 games have been terrific.
Garland is a small skill player who was generating nothing offensively in October-November and provides no intangibles to compensate for a lack of production. The battle level and puck tenacity we've seen since December (and have seen at other points during his time here) wasn't there to start the season. The difference once that line started clicking was night-and-day.
Nucker101
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Garland for me. Joshua gets plenty of love, Hog is def a fan fave. Garland in my opinion deserves more love from this fanbase, I think he would if he wasn’t associated with that brutal OEL trade. His ability to create offense at 5v5 is under appreciated.
I don’t think I’ve seen him play many games where he isn’t working his ass off, even if he’s struggling.
I don’t think I’ve seen him play many games where he isn’t working his ass off, even if he’s struggling.
strattonius
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It's Garland.
Seemingly you can slot him on multiple variations of linemates and that will be our most consistent line.
When Garland-Blueger-Joshua are together they absolutely chew up 3rd pairing d-men. As important as Joshua's skillset is to the team, it's Garland that quarterbacks the offensive zone when he finds space in the boards.
Seemingly you can slot him on multiple variations of linemates and that will be our most consistent line.
When Garland-Blueger-Joshua are together they absolutely chew up 3rd pairing d-men. As important as Joshua's skillset is to the team, it's Garland that quarterbacks the offensive zone when he finds space in the boards.
PuckMunchkin
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He was generating. Just not finishing.
They sure are not useless.
You cant take them for gospel but just because you dont agree with what they show does not make them useless.
They just happen to show what we all know. Hughes and Garland are the play drivers 5on5 this year.
Fair.
Cant agree with the bolded part. He is always tenacious.
He was generating.
He wasnt finishing.
That is the entire point. He has been generating all year. His on ice shooting percentage was awful. He was unlucky.
He wasn't generating, though. I watched every single one of those games. We weren't having games where we were like 'wow, Garland was amazing but he's snakebit' or 'too bad his linemates can't finish' or anything along those lines. He was filling space ok-ish and not being very noticeable. People were trying to find ways/scenarios to dump his contract, same as Beauvillier.
He didn't 'stink' but nothing was happening for him, he was tried with pretty much every line/linemate and didn't have any chemistry or generate any results with anyone. Those shifts where he does incredible board work against bigger players to win battles weren't happening with anywhere near the frequency they have been later on in the season.
PuckMunchkin
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Tough call, I voted Garland because he is one of the three misfits who anchored a rock solid 3rd line that showed no mercy and gave no quarter. Blueger and Joshua have been great, but Garland was the one who rode into the season bearing tons of negativities. We were thinking that he's gonna be a cap dump, now he's an integral part of our squad.
Little surprised that Soucy is not on the list, what he did for our defense corps is basically black magic. Everything settles when he's around, and this season he brought about this atmosphere of peace and tranquility to the blue line that I had not seen for quite some time.
Little surprised that Soucy is not on the list, what he did for our defense corps is basically black magic. Everything settles when he's around, and this season he brought about this atmosphere of peace and tranquility to the blue line that I had not seen for quite some time.
