Comedy BRONZE out of Vancouver

[jstewismybastardson]

 

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I don't really want to rehash this subject, but the following comments by Sven bug me - I don't think anybody was trying to turn Sven into a Stephane Yelle type of player, but your offensive skills better be elite if you're going to be laissiz-faire regarding the defensive aspect of the game (pretty sure Willie D would agree with this sentiment).

“It didn’t work out in Calgary – there were many reasons why it didn’t work – but in the end I was relieved going into an organization like Vancouver,” said the Swiss forward, who made his Canucks debut in Saturday’s loss to the Winnipeg Jets.


“I was just so excited. That’s what I wanted, to be in a place where they appreciate the way I play and help me out with whatever I need and don’t try to make me something I’m not.”

Baertschi relishing chance of facing Flames | Vancouver 24 hrs

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Meh, that's enough time and bandwidth spent discussing Sven Baertschi.

I don't really want to rehash this subject, but the following comments by Sven bug me

got more bandwidth, i see

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Totally neutral, but methinks Canucks management should be telling the kid to STFU now. He sounds like his Swiss brother Nino Niederreiter, except Nino stopped bitching after he got his way.

 

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got more bandwidth, i see

Yeah, I'll stop (lol) - I, like Sven, also hope that Vancouver and Calgary meet in the first round of the playoffs. Who knows, I might have as much TOI as Baertschi in the series.

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Yeah, I'll stop (lol) - I, like Sven, also hope that Vancouver and Calgary meet in the first round of the playoffs. Who knows, I might have as much TOI as Baertschi in the series.

I dont know how much of a top 6 solution he was in the short term

Totally neutral, but methinks Canucks management should be telling the kid to STFU now. He sounds like his Swiss brother Nino Niederreiter, except Nino stopped bitching after he got his way.

Ill agree with that ... but what he said there is no different than what he said the day he was traded here ... he probably needs to stop answering the same question from different people the same way i guess

 

[jstewismybastardson]

and plus ... cant put sven in before Veysie ... no siree bob ... no chance breakdance!

playing him with Hansen and Horvat and then moving Matthias to centre (his natural position) with Kenins who has a physical presence is no option whatsover when you have a guy who has the eye of the (medicine hat) tiger ... nope!

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

I dont know how much of a top 6 solution he was in the short term



Ill agree with that ... but what he said there is no different than what he said the day he was traded here ... he probably needs to stop answering the same question from different people the same way i guess

A simple "I'm happy for the fresh start" would suffice. He doesn't have to take underhanded digs at his old team every time. Anyway, they're just words.

 

[Cobiemonster]

Totally neutral, but methinks Canucks management should be telling the kid to STFU now. He sounds like his Swiss brother Nino Niederreiter, except Nino stopped bitching after he got his way.

Let's be honest - the Isles really didn't think that highly of him, especially if they're trading him for Cal Clutterbuck

 

[Bloody Brian Burke]

Let's be honest - the Isles really didn't think that highly of him, especially if they're trading him for Cal Clutterbuck

No, they did not. But there are Isles fans who will defend to death this trade.

 

[BGDave]

Do not speak ill of The Cal.

You have been warned

 

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Cal Buttercup?

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Do not speak ill of The Cal.

You have been warned

Clusterfuck can go ride a pipe but i agree with you when it comes to THIS Cal

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Ripken can suck an egg too ... "stupid overrated record"

 

[jstewismybastardson]

 

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You guys have a Sbisa, the Flames have an Engelland.

/Deryk has played quite well in Gio's absence (or maybe Brodie covers up a lot of his mistakes).

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Lack’s save percentage since Miller was hurt: .927

 

[jstewismybastardson]

This is cool ... The one thing that makes vrbata happiest about this season ...

But on a much more personal note, Vrbata is also happy about something else. Vancouver and its Canucks have helped turn Vrbata’s six-year-old son, Krystof, into a hockey fan.

“That may be the one thing that is most interesting to me and my wife,” a smiling Vrbata says. “When we were in Phoenix our son didn’t care about hockey all that much and now he is so much into it. I don’t know if it is because there is hockey on TV all the time here, but he is taking skating lessons now,

 

[jstewismybastardson]

Thanks Torts!

 

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If you’re feeling nostalgic and want to watch a staged fight – a particular sort of hockey fight that occurs when two one-dimensional fighting specialists square off immediately after a faceoff – you still can. You just have to buy a ticket to an AHL game.

In the contemporary NHL – where teams are restricted to 23-man rosters, prefer to roll four-lines, and prioritize depth scoring – teams are deciding that they can’t afford to use a roster spot on a player whose job isn’t primarily to contribute to the act of outscoring their opponents.

A lack of supply didn’t bring the NHL enforcer to the brink of extinction, cratering demand did.

The change – incremental at first – has been abrupt this season, and has had a massive influence on the NHL game. This season there were only seven NHL players who dropped the gloves on ten occasions or more, according to data found at hockeyfights.com. A year ago there were 22. Five years ago there were more than 40.

“I think the last couple of years those guys are starting to kind of get pushed out,” said recently extended Canucks winger Derek Dorsett on Saturday, his face caked with blood (his own) following the club’s recent 6-5 overtime victory over the Edmonton Oilers.
Asked how he racked up so many fights this season – Dorsett was second among all NHL players with 17 bouts – with so few guys to square off with, the Canucks fourth-liner suggested that it was largely by fighting players of every stripe.

“I fight a variety of different guys,” Dorsett said. “I don’t necessarily fight just fighters, sometimes it’s just an intense battle and a fight happens. I don’t come looking for them. I don’t come to the rink thinking ‘I gotta fight this guy.’ They just sort of come and happen. I like playing that way, I like sticking up for my teammates.”