Ottawa gets a new winning streak. check Leafs drop a 3 goal lead. check Looks like alls well in Ontario.
How about them Canucks!
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canucks had a bad start, just couldn't get the legs going
at the beginning, then luongo let in one he would like to
have back, but even before that period was over you could
see canucks starting to move better, and they were gradually finding their game.
The rest is history, the top line was awsome, and raycroft
had a good game, it's funny to think that raycroft is
getting payed from 'both teams' who were on the ice tonight.
next game in Montreal
GO CANUCKS GO
at the beginning, then luongo let in one he would like to
have back, but even before that period was over you could
see canucks starting to move better, and they were gradually finding their game.
The rest is history, the top line was awsome, and raycroft
had a good game, it's funny to think that raycroft is
getting payed from 'both teams' who were on the ice tonight.
next game in Montreal
GO CANUCKS GO
For some reason the system won't let me give you a rep before I give someone else one.........doesn't make much sense but anyway I'm willing to concede this one- hey you can't be a hero all the time..........................:lol::lol::lol: REally figure Edmonton deserves a break.
they have to 'make' their own breaks, they need some changes
for sure, they are too small, soury is playing half hearted,
he wants out, and they should kick him out, he obviously has
no heart, and won't play his best on a losing team.
When Hemsky is back next season they will be better, but they need some bigger talented players, they can't play
the game physical enough, they need more than 'just' talent,
they need strength.
And they need to tell that big crude old coach of theirs to shut
his big mouth, and let tom rennie do the talking for a change, he might say something constructive, instead of
putting his guys 'down' all the time.
remember when canucks had that long losing streak last season, did we ever hear vineault trash his players, not
once, he kept positive, made himself part of the team and
said they were working real hard to fight their way out of
the slump, they did that, and won the division.
with vineault it was always 'we', with quinn it is always
'me'.
Over the last while several sports writers have suggested that the Sedin,Sedin, Burrows line might be the best line in hockey. I would say it is likely the most dangerous line in hockey right now. The Sedin brothers certainly have the touch around the net, and Burrows, given a one step lead can outskate anyone for a hundred and twenty feet and he can beat most goaltenders. A couple of the announcers during the game tonight were trying to make the point that the Sedins passed mainly to each other. Tonight that line accounted fo 9 points while Burrows had 4. Hey maybe they are the best line in hockey....:smile:
This Eastern road trip could make or break their status. The east hasn't seen much of them but it will now. I hope they can keep things on track. However, I do feel Kesler will need to step up his production. They can't expect the Sedin line to produce every night. Sooner or later they'll go through a drought.
Yeah, start at the top with lowe, feel sorry for tamballini,
he walked in there and it all fell on his lap. He did
hire soury, now he is 'sour'.
It's the coaching staff that is off the wall, they are
actually co coaches, as rennie is just as much a coach
as quinn, which is wierd in itself, but do we ever hear
from rennie, never.
It will be interesting at the end of the season, when
the housecleaning starts.
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yeah, didn't healey sound 'dumb', he thought he knew it all,
telling everyone that if you check one sedin, the other won't have him to pass to, well, he soon found out, that
it is much more complicated than that.
It is a complete line now, the sedins have raised their
game, they are awsome, but the addition of burrows is a
big part of that, as he thinks like they do, and knows where
to be all the time, he is so smart, and he can play a great
game on his own too.
The three of them are very very special. I feel lucky that
we have them, and I thank vineault for making that decision
to put burrows with the sedins, it was the piece of the
puzzle that was 'missing'.
They won't dominate every game, eg. the last game, but raymond stepped in and that line got it done, that is the
depth they have now.
Thinking back many many years, Rennie sure wasn't up to snuff when he coached the Canucks- I think he took over from Bob McCammon who was good but too nice of a guy and then after Rennie got the boot, they brought in that idiot Mike Keenan, who screwed the team up Royally, got rid of Linden and Odjick and a couple of other good guys, before he got the boot and then they brought in Pat Quinn and he rebuilt the team and was a very good coach, but I guess he never saw eye to eye with Brian Burke and Brian being the cheese Quinn had to leave but Quinn did a masterful job with the Canucks. Quinn is the same age as me so is probably getting a little long in the tooth and at the age that Alzheimers generally sets in. I'd hesitate to criticise Quinn, but he is probably due for pasturization.
Most ex-Canuck coaches have never been "system" guys. Rennie tries to be one of the guys and keep them motivated to do 'what they do'. Quinn is a little like Mike Keenan in that he doesn't get too technical. He barks and yaps, and he seems to push his D to pinch. He strikes me as someone who coaches reactively..the instructions come after they've been hosed. The style is ragged. These days, unless you have the speed and explosiveness of Chicago (or Pavel Bure in his prime), it's asking for trouble.
or is that pasteurization lol
Tom rennie is a master of the blackboard, so I guess that is
what he is doing in edmonton, and quinn is the mouthpiece.
Quinn just hasn't progressed with time, he still has his
crude old boys way, and the game has become very technical,
and the players are much better than anything he ever coached. The juniors who come into the league now, are
far above any juniors from back then.
I did like him coaching the juniors in the world tournament, as he is like a father figure, did not talk to
them like he is to this team, and he wasn't their coach on
their home teams, so it worked, and was temporary.
Time goes on, and everything gets better, every sport is
like that, and hockey hasn't missed a step, the best it's
ever been.
I like the coaches that have come into the league this year
on other teams, they have moved their ahl coaches up to their nhl teams, they are all young, and are familiar and
connected to this days hockey. Pittsburg, Washington,
Ottawa, Colorado, all with young smart coaches, and they
all came through their ahl farm teams.
vineault coached our ahl team in manitoba, then moved right
into the nhl level, and he is doing great.
that was then, this is now.
quinn is younger than I am, and I look at him like he is
older, he just seems that way.
I haven't had skates on in a while though, would have to
brush up a bit, but I can still skate, have been skating
since I was about 6. I just find it boring going round
and round.
So, I'm sure he can skate circles around me. lol
he and bowness, they were together in Ottawa I think
when bowness was coach and vineault assistant, guess that
was after the habs.
then vineault coached manitoba moose
yes, I was listening, it was the daily press question time,
and by the time it was finished I was in stitches too.
that word possessed linked with wellwood, was more than
he could stand.
He is a neat guy, and the press really like him, that is
refreshing.
A losing Habs coach very quickly becomes something like a leper that nobody wants to associate with for fear that losing might be contagious.
They are turning them out quickly these days, maybe there
will be colony starting up soon,lol.
There present coach, Jacque Martin might not be there next season if they don't shape up soon.