Tort's corrosive manners will get him in trouble eventually. I've never liked his style but time will tell. The season is young..
How about them Canucks!
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Tort's corrosive manners will get him in trouble eventually. I've never liked his style but time will tell. The season is young..
I don't know anything about Tortoise but Crawford could be an awful a$$hole and he lasted a long time! You just can't never tell. Of course after a season with Keenan nothing is surprising!
torterella's job is to 'win' with this team, and if they are successful and the players all ' like
playing' for him, the rest is just media stuff, and in this case he was being abrupt 'back' to
someone who was 'abrupt' with him. healy shouldn't spout off either by suggesting that he
shut up and just coach, well, healy should just shut up and report the facts of hockey.
if the cbc had not said those words about/to him, they wouldn't have been immediately
reported back to him, (just to get a rise out of him, and nothing else.) and his interview
'post' game would have been fine.
I listen and watch the media re: torterella and they are just waiting and hoping that they can
feed him something to get him going, well, their job is to report sports, but they would rather
find controversial stuff, they really don't care about the facts, just stirring up trouble.
I will meet torterella half way concerning the media, sure he gets carried away, but just listen
to some of the stupid questions the media put to him, just like last night when they fed him that
crap that healy said, what does one expect with a question like that, it has nothing to do with our
game, or our players at all.
That's the boys!!!!!!!!! The Flames must have been doing a lot of cheating to do as well as they did!
canucks were obviously leg weary thru much of this game, back to back games at the pace they
are playing takes its toll, BUT they hung in there and gradually came to life, scored 3 goals
in the last period, then one in OT to win the game.
a good win, eddie lack played well, his first NHL game, good for him.
I like the way torterella juggled lines to get his team going, as it was
pretty clear, their legs were not fresh, he split up the twins for a
while, and he didn't just sit back and accept what he was seeing.
flames have a much different team this year, lots of young energetic players, they look like they
will do better than the last few seasons.
canucks 5 flames 4
are playing takes its toll, BUT they hung in there and gradually came to life, scored 3 goals
in the last period, then one in OT to win the game.
a good win, eddie lack played well, his first NHL game, good for him.
I like the way torterella juggled lines to get his team going, as it was
pretty clear, their legs were not fresh, he split up the twins for a
while, and he didn't just sit back and accept what he was seeing.
flames have a much different team this year, lots of young energetic players, they look like they
will do better than the last few seasons.
canucks 5 flames 4
I only watched from near the end of the second on. Nice to see Booth coming around. He looked pretty good from what I saw.
I like the team game Tortorella is putting together. It's not just the Sedins cycling, they have more support which is creating more room for them.
I like the team game Tortorella is putting together. It's not just the Sedins cycling, they have more support which is creating more room for them.
I can't remember if it was last year or the year before when the Canucks acquired Booth, but I remember being impressed with him during game 1.
if booth can only stay healthy, he isn't even in his top form, he's been out so long, so if he could
get in about a month or more, I think we will really see him shine, can really skate, has such
a nose for the net, he's so strong on his feet, players have trouble trying to knock him off the
puck, i'll keep my fingers crossed for him.
The Canucks do seem to be getting it done these days. Getting scoring from a few more players helps a lot. I was glad to see Eddie Lack get a game in. I think he was a bit nervous but that was to be expected. He should be better from here on.
yeah, that was his first 'ever' nhl game, and he looked fine, he is huge, about 6-4 or 6-5.
we play new jersey tomorrow, I wonder if schneider will be in goal, I would think so.
Ranking the 10 Most Hated Players in NHL History | Bleacher Report
How does your least favorite rank in that list?
How does your least favorite rank in that list?
Of all the thousands of players over the years it's next to impossible to pick the worst. Billy Smith and Ron Hextall are a couple that come to mind. Little mummy's boy Eric Lindross was one I had absolutely no use for or I should say "Big mummy's baby" . I never could work up too much enthusiasm over Brat Hull. (but probably not for any valid reason) Jeremy Roenick could probably be an A$$hole at times. Of course Big Gordie was hated for his elbows.
LIVE ON TSN, NHLN-US Radio: 1040 Devils Tue 08/10/2013 7:00 PM Season series: This is the first of two meetings. The New Jersey Devils and Vancouver Canucks will meet again on Oct. 24 at Prudential Center. They last faced each other on Feb. 24, 2012, when the Canucks earned a 2-1 win in New Jersey. The Devils haven’t played in Vancouver since Nov. 1, 2010.
Big story: Cory Schneider is slated to start in goal for the Devils on Tuesday night in his return to Vancouver’s Rogers Arena. The Canucks traded Schneider to New Jersey at the 2013 NHL Draft for the Devils’ first-round pick (No. 9).
"When we got Cory, and then I got the schedule, it became a no-brainer," Devils coach Pete DeBoer said Monday. "I didn't have to spend a lot of time on it.”
Schneider was drafted by Vancouver in the first round (No. 26) in 2004, and he spent parts of five seasons with the Canucks. The 27-year-old Marblehead, Mass., native finished 17-9-4 with a .927 save percentage and 2.11 goals-against average for Vancouver in 2012-13.
Team Scope:
Devils: The Devils are still looking for their first win of the season after blowing a three-goal lead in the third period in Edmonton on Monday night. Patrik Elias tied the game for New Jersey at 4-4 on a shorthanded goal with 54 seconds to play, but Edmonton won the shootout after a scoreless overtime. Jaromir Jagr, Damien Brunner and Michael Ryder also scored for the Devils.
Martin Brodeur stopped all 11 Oilers’ shots he faced through two periods, but then allowed four goals on 14 shots in the third.
“I thought we had some chances to extend the lead and didn’t, and they found a way to hang around and capitalized on a handful of chances,” DeBoer said after the loss. “It’s a learning experience for us early in the season, and we’ve got to be better. “I don’t like leaving points on the table like that, especially after being up 3-0.”
Canucks: Vancouver has scored 11 goals in its past two games. The Canucks picked up their second win of the season in a 5-4 overtime victory at Calgary on Sunday night. Center Mike Santorelli scored twice in the win against the Flames, including the game-winning goal at 3:07 of overtime. Rookie goalie Eddie Lack earned the win in his first career start, stopping 32 of 36 shots.
"It was an unbelievable feeling," Lack said. "[That was] a great job by Santorelli there. … It was a little bit of a roller coaster, but I said to myself too that no matter what happened, I'm going to stick with it and work all 60 minutes, and it kind of felt that's what I did, too."
Who's hot: Brunner, who signed with New Jersey as a free agent on Sept. 24 after receiving a professional tryout during training camp, scored his third goal in as many games Monday night in Edmonton. He tallied two goals Friday in the Devils’ home opener against the Islanders. … Canucks center Henrik Sedin has five assists through the first three games and is tied for the team lead with a plus-2 rating.
Injury report: Canucks right wing Alexandre Burrows (lower-body injury) is out. He was injured in the Canucks’ season opener at San Jose while blocking a shot and is expected to miss at least two weeks. … The Devils bring a healthy lineup to Vancouver.
Big story: Cory Schneider is slated to start in goal for the Devils on Tuesday night in his return to Vancouver’s Rogers Arena. The Canucks traded Schneider to New Jersey at the 2013 NHL Draft for the Devils’ first-round pick (No. 9).
"When we got Cory, and then I got the schedule, it became a no-brainer," Devils coach Pete DeBoer said Monday. "I didn't have to spend a lot of time on it.”
Schneider was drafted by Vancouver in the first round (No. 26) in 2004, and he spent parts of five seasons with the Canucks. The 27-year-old Marblehead, Mass., native finished 17-9-4 with a .927 save percentage and 2.11 goals-against average for Vancouver in 2012-13.
Team Scope:
Devils: The Devils are still looking for their first win of the season after blowing a three-goal lead in the third period in Edmonton on Monday night. Patrik Elias tied the game for New Jersey at 4-4 on a shorthanded goal with 54 seconds to play, but Edmonton won the shootout after a scoreless overtime. Jaromir Jagr, Damien Brunner and Michael Ryder also scored for the Devils.
Martin Brodeur stopped all 11 Oilers’ shots he faced through two periods, but then allowed four goals on 14 shots in the third.
“I thought we had some chances to extend the lead and didn’t, and they found a way to hang around and capitalized on a handful of chances,” DeBoer said after the loss. “It’s a learning experience for us early in the season, and we’ve got to be better. “I don’t like leaving points on the table like that, especially after being up 3-0.”
Canucks: Vancouver has scored 11 goals in its past two games. The Canucks picked up their second win of the season in a 5-4 overtime victory at Calgary on Sunday night. Center Mike Santorelli scored twice in the win against the Flames, including the game-winning goal at 3:07 of overtime. Rookie goalie Eddie Lack earned the win in his first career start, stopping 32 of 36 shots.
"It was an unbelievable feeling," Lack said. "[That was] a great job by Santorelli there. … It was a little bit of a roller coaster, but I said to myself too that no matter what happened, I'm going to stick with it and work all 60 minutes, and it kind of felt that's what I did, too."
Who's hot: Brunner, who signed with New Jersey as a free agent on Sept. 24 after receiving a professional tryout during training camp, scored his third goal in as many games Monday night in Edmonton. He tallied two goals Friday in the Devils’ home opener against the Islanders. … Canucks center Henrik Sedin has five assists through the first three games and is tied for the team lead with a plus-2 rating.
Injury report: Canucks right wing Alexandre Burrows (lower-body injury) is out. He was injured in the Canucks’ season opener at San Jose while blocking a shot and is expected to miss at least two weeks. … The Devils bring a healthy lineup to Vancouver.
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