How about them Canucks!

[gopher]

Yer not forgettin' what old Yogi said? -

Sad to say, Carmen Berra passed away last week at age 85. In my many years of growing up and living in Brooklyn, she was almost as famous as her husband Yogi. No other athlete's wife ever did more charity work than she did. Her love for children and for the community cannot ever be equaled.

"... she was one of the great women of all time.”

Yogi Berra’s wife of 65 years, Carmen, dead at 85 following complications from recent strokeÂ* - NY Daily News
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[talloola]

Sad to say, Carmen Berra passed away last week at age 85. In my many years of growing up and living in Brooklyn, she was almost as famous as her husband Yogi. No other athlete's wife ever did more charity work than she did. Her love for children and for the community cannot ever be equaled.

"... she was one of the great women of all time.”

Yogi Berra’s wife of 65 years, Carmen, dead at 85 following complications from recent strokeÂ* - NY Daily News
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R I P, its always sad to hear of someone passing away, there must have been many many people
attending her funeral, seems she was v ery special.

 

[JLM]

Sad to say, Carmen Berra passed away last week at age 85. In my many years of growing up and living in Brooklyn, she was almost as famous as her husband Yogi. No other athlete's wife ever did more charity work than she did. Her love for children and for the community cannot ever be equaled.

"... she was one of the great women of all time.”

Yogi Berra’s wife of 65 years, Carmen, dead at 85 following complications from recent strokeÂ* - NY Daily News
​

Her death is indeed sad but her life is a good news story. It doesn't get much better than that!

 

[#juan]

Getting back to hockey. The Canucks last game was with the panthers........a game the Canucks won in a shoot out after playing to a tie in regulation time. The point of this little rant is that Burrows had a goal and two assists in the game but got no mention in the three stars.
I'll go sulk now......:roll:

 

[talloola]

Getting back to hockey. The Canucks last game was with the panthers........a game the Canucks won in a shoot out after playing to a tie in regulation time. The point of this little rant is that Burrows had a goal and two assists in the game but got no mention in the three stars.
I'll go sulk now......:roll:

i don't remember the stars but i'll guess it was both goalies and nicholas jensson, its very exciting to
see burrows back to his ole self.

 

[JLM]

Getting back to hockey. The Canucks last game was with the panthers........a game the Canucks won in a shoot out after playing to a tie in regulation time. The point of this little rant is that Burrows had a goal and two assists in the game but got no mention in the three stars.
I'll go sulk now......:roll:

Yeah, I would have picked Burrows over Higgins in that game.

 

[#juan]

i don't remember the stars but i'll guess it was both goalies and nicholas jensson, its very exciting to
see burrows back to his ole self.

Had it been the two goaltenders, I wouldn't have complained. As it is I'm not complaining too hard. It just seemed to me that Burrows
had three hits, three shots, and three points and deserved a mention.......:smile:

Yeah, I would have picked Burrows over Higgins in that game.

Great minds think alike....:smile:

 

[talloola]

Yeah, I would have picked Burrows over Higgins in that game.

oh was it higgins As a star, i was just guessing, didn't watch 3 star pick.

after tonights game dallas will have 4 games in hand. last night they lost to winnipeg, but
tim thomas was brutal, let in 4 goals in first 16 shots, he was pulled.
lehtonen, (sp?), dallas's no 1 goalie will be back soon, he is the one who was seriously
run over last week, his head hit crossbar, it was one of the worst goalie charges i have seen.
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Lightning wrap up six-game homestand vs. CanucksSunday, 03.16.2014 / 4:40 PMDavid Kalan - NHL.com Staff
PrintCANUCKS (31-29-10) at LIGHTNING (36-24-7)

TV: RDS2, SNET-P, SUN

Last 10: Vancouver 4-5-1; Tampa Bay 4-4-2

Season series: The Tampa Bay Lightning defeated the Vancouver Canucks, 4-2, in their only previous game this season on Jan. 1 at Rogers Arena. This will be the last time the teams play in the 2013-14 regular season.

Big story: The Canucks will look to pick up two points so they can stay in the Western Conference wild-card race against the Lightning, who are eyeing their third straight win, but have the Montreal Canadiens hot on their heels in the chase for the Atlantic Division's last automatic Stanley Cup Playoff spot.

Team Scope:

Canucks: As Vancouver struggles to keep pace in the Western Conference playoff race, there might be some light at the end of the tunnel. The Canucks have won two of the first three games on their current four-game road trip, which ends on Monday in Tampa Bay, and three of the past five games overall. Of those three wins, however, two have come in the shootout. Vancouver currently has just one regulation win in the month of March, a span of eight games.

On Sunday afternoon, the Canucks edged the Florida Panthers in a shootout, 4-3, in a game that may have been more emotional than most between the teams considering the recent trade of goaltender Roberto Luongo from Vancouver to Florida. In addition to defeating their former goaltender, however, the two points will be pivotal to any hopes the Canucks have for making the postseason. While the Canucks are within reaching distance of the final wild-card spot points-wise, each team ahead of them in the standings has multiple games in hand.

Lightning: The Lightning will close out a six-game homestand on Monday night when they host the Canucks. Tampa Bay is looking for its third straight win and some much-needed breathing room in the standings. The Lightning are currently in a tight battle with the Montreal Canadiens for third place in the Atlantic, but have a decided advantage with two games in hand. That battle might not be quite so tight if the Lightning hadn't lost the first three games of their current homestand, though two of those defeats did come in a shootout.

Tampa Bay appears to have rebounded from the string of defeats, winning two games in a row and seeing an explosion of offense to boot. The Lightning scored eight goals over the past two games. Their most-recent game, a 3-0 win against the New Jersey Devils on Saturday, might have been a been a sign that the team has turned a corner in the eyes of coach Jon Cooper.

"The way we played tonight not only wins games in the regular season," Cooper said. "It wins games in the playoffs."

After facing Vancouver, Tampa Bay will go on a three-game road trip with stops against the Toronto Maple Leafs, Ottawa Senators and Pittsburgh Penguins.

Who's hot: Canucks forward Alexandre Burrows has three goals and three assists in the past four games. ... Lightning goalie Ben Bishop made 23 saves to shut out the Devils on Saturday night. The win was Bishop's 31st on the season, setting a new franchise record.

Injury report: Canucks forwards Ryan Kesler (knee injury) and Daniel Sedin (hamstring injury) are out, as is defenseman Andrew Alberts (concussion). … Lightning defensemen Brian Lee (knee surgery) and Mattias Ohlund (knee surgery) remain out.

 

[bill barilko]

Tortorella Must Go!!!

 

[talloola]

Tortorella Must Go!!!

i'm really curious to know exactly what they are going to do. as soon as they are
finished, (eleven more games), maybe we will know , hopefully.

they don't need a coach 'one' minute After the last game is played.

 

[JLM]

i'm really curious to know exactly what they are going to do. as soon as they are
finished, (eleven more games), maybe we will know , hopefully.

they don't need a coach 'one' minute After the last game is played.

I think the problem is a little deeper than the coach. We know they can play well for 20 or 30 or 40 or even 50 minutes.

 

[bill barilko]

they don't need a coach 'one' minute After the last game is played.

Judging from the look on his face during the second period he knows that too.

I think the problem is a little deeper than the coach. We know they can play well for 20 or 30 or 40 or even 50 minutes.

Point taken but he is the starting point in terms of a New Look-Tortorella's time started to run out when he launched that attack on the Calgary dressing room.

 

[talloola]

I think the problem is a little deeper than the coach. We know they can play well for 20 or 30 or 40 or even 50 minutes.

it would be good if the coaches knew more about coaching than the players, but at this point i believe
the players have totally tuned him out, and they are remembering how they knew they could play
before he came, vineault really knew how to coach, had a great system, time ran out for him, the
team needed lots more life, that is why they hired torterella, but they forgot to find out if he
knew anything about coaching.

heard an interview with 'doug mclean' the other day, he was in florida when torterella coached
tampa bay, he said it was the worst coached team he had ever seen, but the players were young
very talented and eager and found their own way to the stanley cup.
torterella even admitted yesterday on the radio that they didn't know what they were doing when
they won the cup, it just happened, he has ridden on the coattails of that cup for years, and
fooled lots of people.

 

[JLM]

Judging from the look on his face during the second period he knows that too.



Point taken but he is the starting point in terms of a New Look-Tortorella's time started to run out when he launched that attack on the Calgary dressing room.

Wasn't it Calgary's coach that instigated that one? J.T. just REacted badly!

 

[talloola]

Wasn't it Calgary's coach that instigated that one? J.T. just REacted badly!

how a person reacts to what others do, is their responsibility, not the first person.
there is no such thing as 'he made me do it', that is for children.

what do you suppose torterella would have done if he had reached hartley's room, and wasn't stopped
along the way.
i'm sure gillis has asked him that question, the situation could have become really ugly if that had
happened.

 

[JLM]

I see Burrows got a star tonight!

how a person reacts to what others do, is their responsibility, not the first person.
there is no such thing as 'he made me do it', that is for children.

what do you suppose torterella would have done if he had reached hartley's room, and wasn't stopped
along the way.
i'm sure gillis has asked him that question, the situation could have become really ugly if that had
happened.

Hard to say, with some guys it's physical, with others it's a lot of talk.

 

[talloola]

I see Burrows got a star tonight!




Hard to say, with some guys it's physical, with others it's a lot of talk.

well, he's about 140 lbs soaking wet, with a big mouth, but had he reached hartley's
room, he probably would have been carted out by the seat of his pants, kicking and
screaming, by a couple of guys much bigger than he, with normal mouths, maybe into
the arms of a couple of big policemen.
that scenario was very close to actually happening.

that would have made gillis and aquillini very happy when they saw the front page
picture the next morning, and he probably would have been fired then.

they might not fire him at all, the contracts that he and gillis have are new, and
aquillini will owe torterella eight million over four years after this season, so that
might make the decision, hopefully that doesn't matter to aquillini, we'll see soon.

 

[JLM]

they might not fire him at all, the contracts that he and gillis have are new, and
aquillini will owe torterella eight million over four years after this season, so that
might make the decision, hopefully that doesn't matter to aquillini, we'll see soon.

Maybe that's part of the problem, it's the next best thing to paying them huge money before they earn it. There should be an escape clause so they aren't obligated to these guys if they screw up. -

 

[talloola]

Maybe that's part of the problem, it's the next best thing to paying them huge money before they earn it. There should be an escape clause so they aren't obligated to these guys if they screw up. -

i find the gm s do this too frequently, luongo being the biggy, coaches/mgrs/players are signed to long
term contracts, and i know it is because each party refuses to sign something shorter, And can go
elsewhere and get what they want, so it takes a strong owner or gm to stand firm and refuse.

i was astonished when they announced they had signed him to a 5 yr. coaching contract, absolutely
astonished, as immediately he is financially very comfortable for the next 5 years without having
proven anything, but the fact that he won a stanley cup, and i wish these people wouldn't put
such a high priority on that part of the resume.

not so astonished that aquillini signed gillis, As he knows gillis And his work, and if he is ok with
that, then it is his money, so go for it, but not the same with torterella, i think torterella
buttered them up real good with the fancy talk, the promises, the stanley cup on his record, etc.
and his intentions for the team, well you know, he didn't really know much of anything about the
team, none of the players, except weiss and higgins, and he admitted As much 'After' the fAct.
he has always been in the east, last year they only played once i think Against the canucks, he
is american, doesn't know much of anything about the west coast, or canada.

i think they soaked all of his talk in, and decided because he was 'so' different from vineault,
that he would put some p*ss and vinegar into the team and bring them back to life. as soon as
torterella begAn to explain that he was putting a complete new style of play into the team,
and it would take a while for them to switch from vineault's plan to his, i began to wonder,
but wanted to completely have an open mind and trust his coaching talent.
and i also wanted to believe everything he said at his press conference about how he would
chAnge his ways with the media and others who interviewed him, and control his emotions much
better.

 

[Kreskin]

Some say Gillis is just Aquilini's stooge. If that's the case I say he needs to find a better stooge.