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10-29-2011, 08:09 PM #1
Grapes To Everyone In Vancouver
Leave Luongo alone. You're all too soft.
1. Start blocking shots
2. Stop complaining to the referee
3. Start paying the price
He is right on the money. Bieksa and Kesler cannot do everything by themselves.
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10-29-2011, 09:40 PM #2
luongo is a playoff choke. how can you tell vancouver fans to stop complaining when 99% of your posts show you complaining?
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10-29-2011, 10:17 PM #3
Luongo's fault when the Sedin's fail to score, and allow themselves to be abused. Yep., get rid of him
Last edited by centrehice; 10-29-2011 at 10:20 PM.
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10-29-2011, 10:21 PM #4
Im pretty sure Cherry was ripping on Keslers whining tonight
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10-29-2011, 10:24 PM #5
Perhaps, but the Canucks are softer than warm toffee. Nothing will change until they toughen up.
Luongo can't teach them to be men.
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10-30-2011, 03:02 AM #6
Cherry was absolutely right. The Canucks especially the Sedins and Kesler gotta stop looking to the refs to call penalties every time they get bumped. Play hard nosed hockey, block some shots, hit some people, and go to the front of the net to pay the price to score some tough goals. They did that tonight which is a good sign. Luongo came up big in the 3rd period. As the Canucks say the nightmare of October is almost over. Bring on the real season. Also the strategy of not getting your stars more preseason action backfired. They haven't looked sharp until tonight.
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10-30-2011, 10:27 AM #7
+1....Good post!
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10-30-2011, 03:07 PM #8
I'm a Canucks fan so everyone will probably pass over this but I have to say, when it comes to Cherry's comments last night...wait for it...he's totally right. As much as I like guys like Burrows, Bieksa and Kesler growing up and not getting involved in after the play stuff, they do constantly look at the refs. Once in a while is no probloem, but it's almost every play.
What bugs me more is that when someone like Daniel or Henrik takes a big hit or a dirty hit or a facewash after the play, there is no one there to back them up. It seems the "skate away and let the refs deal with it" has gone too far, to the point where they don't stand up for themselves or each other at all. This is the reason I'm really liking David Booth. He hasn't done much of anything offensively, but when Hodgson took a facewash last night, Booth was all over the guy who did it. There isn't enough of that in the Canucks game. They're a skilled and fast team, but hockey is a physical game, which they seem to have forgotten.
I thought the whole team looked good last night except for one guy. That guy is Roberto Luongo. He was very average and has to be VERY thankful his team found their scoring touch for that game. I can't say every goal was his fault, but he was very, very average. I'm not going to call for a trade like most others, but it does look like a good solution for all parties. I really think Luongo's days in Vancouver are numbered, unless he goes on a major tear for the rest of the season.
As for the preseason strategy, the Canucks were very beat up from the run to the finals. Kesler missed the first couple of weeks and they all needed more rest. Vancouver ALWAYS has a terrible October. Even last season (when they won the Presidents Trophy) they had a horrible October and didn't get hot until November. I think anyone calling for major changes or giving a doom and gloom report of this year's Canucks forget this fact. It's not time to panic. If they're still struggling like this at Christmas, then something has to be done. As it stands now, it's really no different from last season, in which they had a record of 4-3-2 in October. The year before that, they were 7-7-0. This year they end October with a record of 5-5-1. Nothing new there.
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10-31-2011, 11:49 AM #9
It's very true, the entire NHL is running at the Canucks.
I don't know why. Perhaps for the first time in decades eliminated players actually watched the SC Playoffs, and saw what the Bruins did by driving right over the Canucks.
It hasn't helped the Canucks that the Hawks (being peed-off) from elimination, started trash-talking the Canucks before the season began.
All the Canucks need to do is stick-up for each other. If a Canuck player is getting jostled after the whistle, the entire line should come to the rescue and drill the opposing player, and let him know that those days are over.
It just takes one shift of unity by the Canucks, and this nonsense ends.
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