The Rainman
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I think at Capwise we have a few here that could do an outstanding job!
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Me thinks it all started when I cut him from my JV team.
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5 hours ago, knobert said:
Pffft........... the pacific all the way since when is an allstar team about goaltending, a shooter tutor (Mike Smith) is all you need.
lol! Isn't that the truth! Since when has goaltending been a factor in All Star games? hehehe
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On 12/30/2016 at 9:34 AM, byz said:
Anyone have any insight on what's going on with NYI?
Greiss owners rejoice.
Hahaha Not this Greiss owner. I have Halak and Greiss. Maybe a team will pick up part of Halak's contract in a trade.
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Download or buy Malwarebyt. It's the best. It'll care of things like what's going on with the site or any other site.
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12 hours ago, originaljroc said:
Still think the jury is out on him big time. He was never THE guy in Edmonton as the quote in this article suggests. The Oilers had three players who were more go-to than he was when he came into the league. Never had to be THE guy and he couldn't succeed. It's because he didn't go into traffic. Didn't play defence. Didn't even score when he should have. Was invisible far too often. Perimeter players rarely find success in the NHL, but maybe he'll buck the trend in St. Louis. We'll see.
Boy it sure sounds like you aren't interested in making a trade for him! Keep it under your hat but he's available.
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We sometimes forget that they are people first, then hockey players. I hope everything works out for him. I traded for him thinking that he was going to be traded in the summer and get a fresh start. When that didn't happen I thought oh oh. If he wasn't traded I think he would have gone home. Good move for the Blues. ( errr and hopefully for The Rainman.)
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McDavid Kane
Seguin Tarasenko Malkin Gaudreau
Burns Klingberg Letang Giordano
Draisaitl Bennett
Holtby Price Crawford
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3 hours ago, knobert said:
Just wait............. he will skate fast and look busy but get nothing done, yeah I wish we got more but he was kinda like trying to get a Saab to be awesome and then trying to sell it when it wasn't
It's been said that he plays like he's being chased by a swarm of bees!
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Wait until Hitch gets a hold of him. Can't see how that relationship is going last for very long!
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Wow! Did you check out the scores? They clobbered everyone!
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lol!
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18 hours ago, knobert said:
ahh who cares about the canucks!! go Poolparty
"We are all Canucks"!
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Oh Yeah...Jack Campbell rates right up there.
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Geez I'm going back some but I was over the moon when I drafted Pavel Brendl. It still left it's mark as you can see. If you get a chance take a look at his junior stats.
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3 minutes ago, James said:
Where does Vesey fit into this list of 5? Think he outscores any of them? All of them?
I'm not so sure he even fits.
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29 minutes ago, byz said:
You do the Gudbranson deal all day long from the Canucks perspective?
Yes sir. It all depends on what your needs are. He's more than a decent Dman plus he's going to toughen them up behind the blue line which they need desperately.
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1 hour ago, Zipper14 said:
Those guys were all regarded as can't miss picks, which is why they are in the top 5. Juolevi is not regarded as can't miss. It's even debatable as to whether or not he's the best dman in the draft class, and the second Dman drafted didn't go until #9. I think there's a chance he's a Griffin Reinhart (4), Derrick Pouliot (8), Adam Larsson (4), Erik Gudbranson (3), Luke Schenn (5), Thomas Hickey (4), or even Erik Johnson (1), who is solid, but he was taken instead of Toews or Backstrom.
I do think Benning's scouting is probably his forte, and I think he probably did try to trade down, so I'm not heartbroken about the pick. It's just strange that he didn't take the obvious power forward pick, when he took one with the first pick in the last two drafts, and when dmen have a lesser chance of working out
It's too bad he couldn't have taken a shot at a dman with the 33rd pick, but that was given away in the Gudbranson deal.
Well in 2012 8 of the first 10 picks were Dmen. I know what you're saying but if you think Tkachuk is a can't miss me thinks you might be mistaken. The Gudbranson deal is one I'd make all day long. I think Benning beat Chia and the Oil to him. As we are seeing it's very tough to get to get good Dmen without over paying. I think unproven left wingers are a dime a dozen. Tkachuk's knock has been his skating. It didn't take long for it to catch up to Cody Hodgson. I'm not saying Tkachuk will end up like Cody but he might. I have enjoyed kicking this around. Just remember "We Are All Canucks"!
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On 7/13/2016 at 1:25 PM, Zipper14 said:
I think this is their problem now. They're too focused on keeping the streak alive and it's leaving Detroit as a middle team. They're not drafting as well as they used to so there are not enough prospects to replace their aging vets. This leads them to overpay free agents and not have enough cap space to fill holes. I'd be frustrated if I was a wings fan.
On a Canucks note, Benning managed to frustrate me again. He loves power forwards so I thought picking Tkachuk was idiotproof, turns out it wasn't. I don't mind Juolevi, but picking a dman so high is a bigger risk, and they take longer to develop.... And now Benning is talking about how he wants to trade for a big winger...
I didn't have a problem with Canucks taking Juolevi when they did.(5th) If you like a Dman enough you take him. When you don't have anymore picks in the 1st round you either take him then or say goodbye to him forever. If you look back to the 94 draft Jovanoski went 1st and Tverdovsky another Dman went 2nd. Nolan Baumgartner went 10th. It was really no secret that the Canucks wanted Pierre-Luc Dubois and when that went sideways that's when plan B was put into action. We all thought we knew the order of how the selections were going to go until Columbus had us all on the floor. So we shall see. I do remember when the Canucks took a Dman in the 1st round and I was pissed. I'm looking at this baby faced kid and thinking who is this kid going to move from in front of the net or a long the wall. Boy was I wrong. That baby faced kid was Mattias Ohlund who turned out to be some kind of warrior. Other Dmen that went early Drew Doughty 2nd Victor Hedman went 2nd Zach Brogosian 3rd Alex Pietrangelo went 4th. The list is endless. I'm looking forward as to see how these picks etc. turn out.
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