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7seven 10-05-2010 02:02 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronin (Post 7132568)
Didn't Tamby sign a 2-way? Why is he being waived rather than just sent down to the Moose?

A 2 way deal just means different salary if you get sent down to AHL. NHL Waiver requirements are determined by games played and age.

You're thinking of the simplified EA game rules regarding 2 way contracts.

Ch28 10-05-2010 02:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ronin (Post 7132568)
Didn't Tamby sign a 2-way? Why is he being waived rather than just sent down to the Moose?

.....I can't believe you of all people would ask a question like that.

Gh0stRider 10-05-2010 02:24 PM

one week to go...wooo

http://www.totalprosports.com/wp-con...ey-Girls-1.jpg
http://www.totalprosports.com/wp-con...y-Girls-11.jpg
http://www.totalprosports.com/wp-con...y-Girls-22.jpg
http://www.totalprosports.com/wp-con...y-Girls-13.png

Renthal 10-05-2010 03:12 PM

gillis is getting interviewed in 5 mins on tsn..

sonick 10-05-2010 03:48 PM

"I've done a poor job."
-Brian Burke on TSN with Gino Reda after giving himself a failing grade.

mako 10-05-2010 04:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Gh0stRider (Post 7132606)

i got the same pads

Not really racist! 10-05-2010 05:34 PM

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._1598271_n.jpg

Ch28 10-05-2010 05:54 PM

Misa Campo.........fuuuuuuuuuu

LsquareD 10-05-2010 06:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nismo_s13 (Post 7132757)
i got the same pads

http://individual.utoronto.ca/cya/im...texmaxipad.jpg

:troll:

this picture cracks me up

http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-..._1185898_n.jpg

raygunpk 10-05-2010 06:53 PM

O'Brien with some words about the coaching staff
http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Bri...596/story.html

Quote:

And in a related transaction, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge in Nashville sent the Roxy Night Club Jack Daniels, Jim Beam and a banjo player to be named later as compensation for the loss of Shane O'Brien.

The Vancouver Canucks traded O'Brien earlier Tuesday for Nashville Predator defenceman Ryan Parent. So ended O'Brien's two-year adventure in Vancouver, and so began another round of Roxy jokes involving the player.

That is how O'Brien is going to be remembered here and it's both funny and sad.

Rarely is a player publicly outed by his team for lifestyle issues and subjected to humiliation as O'Brien was last season by the Canucks.

And it's not often, also, that a capable defenceman with O'Brien's considerable upside is discarded for the benefit of both team and player.

The 27-year-old cleared waivers on Monday. The next day he cleared the air after he was traded to the Predators as the centrepiece of a four-player deal that did little for the Canucks except provide a prospect and potential salary-cap lever.

O'Brien admitted he made mistakes in Vancouver and said it was entirely his fault that he slept in and was late for practice last March after a night out. But he said his transgressions were made worse by coach Alain Vigneault.

"This whole Roxy myth - my first year in Vancouver I did hang out there a little too much," O'Brien said. "Obviously, there's a lot of things I would have done differently.

"But the thing that really made me upset is you look around an organization and there's always stuff that goes on during the year, and they try to keep it behind closed doors. With me, AV just went right to the press and buried me and that made it worse. Everything else that happens on that team, they try to keep internal. But when he had a chance to bury me in the media, he did. He never seemed to have my back. I'd by lying if I said I thought I had a chance with him from Day 1."

O'Brien, whose contract rights the Canucks retained in July with a qualifying offer of $1.6 million US, said he knew before training camp was a week old that Vigneault wasn't going to have him on the team.

"I knew I was in trouble," he said. "I wish I got a little fairer shake in camp. I only played three exhibition games, all on the road, and we flew the day of the game on two of them. And - no disrespect to the players we had in those games - but the three games I played we were nowhere near an NHL-calibre roster. It was the icing on the cake for my career here in Vancouver.

"Last year, I stepped up when we had some injuries and helped our team win the division, and I thought I played with a lot of heart in the playoffs. Every time there was an injury, I'd play well. And when [the injured player] came back, I'd go right back to the bottom of the barrel. It's tough to play in this league when you know if you have a bad night, you're going to the press box. After two years, it was still the same thing. No matter what I did, I didn't seem to stand a chance with that guy."

Almost from the beginning - he was acquired from Florida for defenceman Lukas Krajicek at the start of the 2008-09 season - O'Brien clashed with Vigneault.

He complained about being a healthy scratch his first season here, claiming Vigneault wanted him to fight more. General manager Mike Gillis forced O'Brien to publicly apologize.

Last season, Vigneault forced O'Brien into a crash conditioning program when the defenceman returned from the Olympic break eight pounds heavier, then essentially suspended him with pay a month later after his night at The Roxy.

O'Brien leaves Vancouver no more accomplished than when he arrived. He skates well for someone 6-3 and 230 pounds, willingly fights for teammates and can pass the puck. Yet, he always seemed to be clinging to his lineup spot and was a healthy scratch 16 times last season.

He goes to Nashville with minor-league forward Dan Gendur in exchange for Parent and 29-year-old Swedish rookie Jonas Andersson. The Canucks immediately waived Parent, who has two years and $1.85 million left on his contract, and are expected to assign him to minor-league Manitoba. Andersson is on a one-way $675,000 contract, but does not require waivers to go between the NHL and American League. That could make him useful to the Canucks.

General manager Mike Gillis said O'Brien was given the chance to improve and earn playing time in Vancouver.

"He had his opportunity to come here and make the team and other players played better than him," Gillis told reporters. "We didn't go into this with any predetermined ideas.

"We thought there was a lot of upside with Shane. But we can only do so much in trying to develop players and do the best we can, and at certain points I think Shane needed to try and mature a little bit and get better."

Gillis said the team worked to find another NHL opportunity for O'Brien, who said he was grateful.

"That dressing room is full of great guys," O'Brien said. "The organization is first class all the way. Fans in Vancouver were great to me. But if you're being realistic, there was never any chance I was going to move up [the depth chart] as long as the coaching staff stayed intact. I think it was time for a change."

O'Brien is awaiting documentation required to work in the U.S. and hopes to travel to Nashville Thursday or Friday. The Predators open their season Saturday.

Vigneault won't miss O'Brien. Trading him is better for Vigneault than quitting smoking. The Canucks, however, may miss O'Brien's toughness. The Roxy will miss the publicity.


Read more: http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Bri...596/story.html
OBrien blasts Vigneault: "AV just went right to the press and buried me. He never seemed to have my back.”

http://twitter.com/imacVanSun

invader 10-05-2010 07:09 PM

I thought OB came from Tampa not Florida.

raygunpk 10-05-2010 07:15 PM

Yeah it should be Tampa.

Hi_Im_Mike 10-05-2010 07:18 PM

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/...nucksBlog7.jpg


Anyone know who she is or has anymore of her pictures?

JKam 10-05-2010 08:35 PM

miso campo rip off

k2_alpha 10-05-2010 08:57 PM

so?
she hot and in a canucks jersey
unless you think her elbow is bony....

JKam 10-05-2010 09:06 PM

Didn't saw she wasn't good looking. Just that shes a Misa Campo rip off lol.

spoon.ek9 10-05-2010 09:33 PM

re: SOB and AV

it's not hard to believe that AV can be a pompous asshole sometimes.

woob 10-05-2010 09:37 PM

Can has link to Gillis interview on TSN?

b0unce. [?] 10-05-2010 10:56 PM

Quote:

"Last year, I stepped up when we had some injuries and helped our team win the division, and I thought I played with a lot of heart in the playoffs. Every time there was an injury, I'd play well. And when [the injured player] came back, I'd go right back to the bottom of the barrel. It's tough to play in this league when you know if you have a bad night, you're going to the press box. After two years, it was still the same thing. No matter what I did, I didn't seem to stand a chance with that guy."
True...

AzNightmare 10-05-2010 11:31 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spoon.ek9 (Post 7133091)
re: SOB and AV

it's not hard to believe that AV can be a pompous asshole sometimes.

lol, I still can't picture AV yelling at anyone. He always has that
happy smirk on his face.

Like Quenneville looks like he can bitch at players. And we all know Tortorella bitches at everyone.


Quote:

Originally Posted by b0unce. [?] (Post 7133190)
True...

Yeah... definitely true...
considering Bieksa never gets put in the doghouse.
How does someone so shitty stay on team for so long.

Ch28 10-05-2010 11:57 PM

I can't disagree with anything that SOB said in that interview.

He knew there were times where he fucked up and admitted it before and admitted it again during the interview. He played well for us during the playoffs and has always been one of the few dependable guys that will stick up for other teammates.

AV rides Biekshit just as much as Crow use to ride Cloutier as long as humanly possible regardless of their piss poor performance.

Disappointed to see him go but I can't really say I'm surprised.

WhatTheShit 10-05-2010 11:57 PM

Biekshit has a fat contract and hard to move around, on the other hand obrien had a 1.6 mil or smth.

I wish oneday biekshit gets waived or traded

Harvey Specter 10-06-2010 12:22 AM

I can feel my blood pressure raising hearing "Biekshit".

I'm not shocked that SOB would call out AV. No doubt there was bad blood between the two last season and I think in AV's prefect little world he would have loved to see SOB traded last season. Darcy's another player who I think AV wanted off the team, wasn't it Darcy who called out AV when AV supposedly told Darcy to fight during a game last season?

BlacknJean 10-06-2010 12:23 AM

i thought o'brien wouldve sticked with canucks for a couple more years. dude always do decent on the ice and has a great personality in general

7seven 10-06-2010 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by M_Nguyen (Post 7132925)
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y4/...nucksBlog7.jpg


Anyone know who she is or has anymore of her pictures?

She's a friend. Look up Dee Poon on Modelmayhem


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