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Originally Posted by RiceIntegraRS (Post 7189253)

Theses are just some of the reasons why he shouldnt retire. Still has a bomb, one of the best sticks around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCNdVp_o6HM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11z55mruhMM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35Io-ttnyxM

Salo has pretty badass goal celebrations too. Especially this one.

Dunno how many d-men we have who can finish backhand roof on a breakaway. Probably just Bieksa and Ehrhoff. LOL @ Burrows clotheslining him after the goal.

hahaha, the classic salo ball fondle celebration

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Originally Posted by InvisibleSoul (Post 7189496)

I'm not sure he does... Edler has won the hardest shot contest in the skills competition the last three years. I don't know whether Salo was in any of them or always injured... but Edler has done 103MPH at least.

It's really not just about that though. Edler at the moment is our best offensive D-man but watch each game how many times his bombs don't go through; or are read by shotblockers.

It's something I rarely see off of Salo who can almost always makes the right decision between a one-timer, slap pass, slap deflection, slap-bank-of-the-backboards, of the point. (and that's all in addition to having approximately as hard a shot as Edler)

Edler has begun to start to embody the above player traits but IMO is not quite there yet as Salo when it comes to "play" decision making on the point.

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Originally Posted by Ronin (Post 7189443)

Salo - Hamhuis
Edler - Ehrhoff
Ballard - Bieksa
Rome - Alberts

Pretty badass... but Bieksa is still there :(

I've always said..
becuz him and Salo are right handed shooters..they bring a different dynamic to the PP...its the MAIN reason why hes still in the line up.

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Originally Posted by AzNightmare (Post 7189789)

Pretty badass... but Bieksa is still there :(

the only reason he's still on this roster is due to our lack of right handed shots

him and salo are the only righters on D

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Originally Posted by jigga250 (Post 7189640)

Dunno how many d-men we have who can finish backhand roof on a breakaway. Probably just Bieksa and Ehrhoff. LOL @ Burrows clotheslining him after the goal.

Geez, Burrows could've injured Salo by doing that! :D

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Originally Posted by Grandmaster TSE (Post 7189706)

hahaha, the classic salo ball fondle celebration

:lol

Canucks will win tonight, i put down a bill each on Win, and 3-1 score or any 2 goal win. Wish me luck

i'm kind of curious.. let's assume bieksa is expendable once salo returns and salo leaves us at the end of this year. that leaves us with:

ballard, hamhuis, edler, ehrhoff (if he signs), rome, alberts and parent.

they're all left hand shots! who's going to be our right handed shot if both biekshit and salo leave us?

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Originally Posted by spoon.ek9 (Post 7190135)

just do really strong backhands, duh!
or both be on the leftside!

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Originally Posted by BlackZRoadster (Post 7190132)

Canucks will win tonight, i put down a bill each on Win, and 3-1 score or any 2 goal win. Wish me luck

just curious what betting site do you use?

^LAdbrokes

for the win its about 2.05 , 3-1 score will pay 23-1 , and win by 2 goals is 8-1.

If i get all of it , i win about $3300! :D , as long as i dont lose all those bets it wont affect me because i didnt group them, if i did it would be way more than $3300

http://tsn.ca/nhl/story/?id=341639

The Calgary Flames acquired defenceman Anton Babchuk and right winger Tom Kostopoulos from the Carolina Hurricanes on Wednesday in exchange for defenceman Ian White and left winger Brett Sutter.

Looks like daddy wasn't amused with his antics :bowrofl::bowrofl::bowrofl:

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Originally Posted by Ch28 (Post 7190290)

:lol awesome

haha two b.sutter's in carolina

It's gonna be an awkward Thanksgiving dinner 2011....

Wow, at least nobody can say he's biased.

He's probably trying to save his job. All he hears everyday is Sutter needs to go so he sacrificed his son hoping that would be good enough. :)

who knows, maybe they'll re-acquire him in the summer :rofl:

Wow talk about awkward! :lol

Next up, Darryl fires his brother Brent?

Tonight`s game has Ballard in for Rome.

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How Scott Arniel helped get Cory Schneider's career on track
Cory Schneider was picked 26th overall by Vancouver in the 2004 draft.

http://www.thehockeynews.com/imgs/dy...le_36436_1.jpg

The 2004 draft – a.k.a. Alex Ovechkin’s year – was considered to be deep in goaltending talent. Al Montoya, Devan Dubnyk and Marek Schwarz were all highly regarded first-rounders who went before the No. 26 selection, Cory Schneider.

Dominant at the high school level, Schneider was also ranked 26th in THN’s Draft Preview that year. He had an impressive .956 save percentage and 1.42 goals-against average, but there were still concerns surrounding his game that were quelled by a starring role at the World Under-18 Championship in Minsk, Belarus.

“He is so composed for a young guy coming out of high school,” a scout was quoted as saying in the 2004 Draft Preview. “He does so many things well. We had a few doubts about him going into the under-18s and he just impressed the heck out of us.”

Six years later, Montoya has played in five NHL games, Dubnyk 22 and Schwarz six, leaving Schneider (15) as the only one of the bunch who still carries around the expectation he’ll eventually be a No. 1 goalie in the NHL.

But Schneider’s transition to professional life wasn’t smooth. After losing back-to-back national championship games with Boston College, Schneider embarked on his career with the Manitoba Moose – coached by Scott Arniel, the current bench boss of the Columbus Blue Jackets – in 2007-08.

Through his first 11 appearances, Schneider’s numbers were miserable. A 3-7-0 record, 3.69 GAA and .872 SP ranked him amongst the worst in the league. Meanwhile, teammate Drew MacIntyre was posting wins and coach Arniel was getting fed up with the work ethic of the young Schneider.

“The big thing with Cory is he had great success at the college level and obviously was a first round draft pick and had lots of hype, lots of talk about him being the next up-and-coming top-end goalie,” Arniel said recently. “He came to us in the AHL and I think he kind of had disrespect for the league. I think he looked at it like everything would come easy.”

Arniel said Schneider wasn’t taking practice seriously enough and wasn’t competing for pucks during games – a worrying development at the time. To turn around the bad start to his career, Schneider got a little bit of luck and a lot of good coaching.

After Schneider let in three goals on eight shots and got pulled in a December game against the Lake Erie Monsters, Arniel’s concerns about his goalie hit a breaking point. With MacIntyre on recall to the Canucks, Arniel had little choice but to turn back to Schneider for another game against those same Monsters the following night. However, before he made that decision, he pulled Schneider aside and held him accountable.

“I called him into the office and we had a real good talk about the game,” Arniel said. “I told him about all those things; I didn’t like the way he was approaching being a professional. I threw him back in the net the next night and it was one of his better games.”

Schneider finished the year with a 21-12-2 record, .916 SP and 2.28 GAA, earning rookie of the month honors in March. The following year, Schneider’s GAA dipped to 2.04 as he led the Moose to their first and only 50-win season and top spot in the league. He carried Manitoba to the Calder Cup final where they lost, but earned the Aldege “Baz” Bastien Memorial Award for AHL goaltender of the year.

After one more season together in 2009-10 on an offensively deficient team that was defeated in the opening round of the post-season, Arniel and Schneider graduated to the NHL. For Arniel, it was a much-deserved first attempt to lead an NHL bench; for Schneider, it was the next step up the ladder to full-time NHLer status - albeit with a lot of work ahead in Roberto Luongo’s shadow to finally become that No. 1 goalie he’s been touted as for so long.

But at least this time, he’s prepared for the challenge.

“He really turned a corner and really became the goaltender we see today,” Arniel said. “It just took a little bit to realize he had to put the work and time in; he’s become a better goalie and I think he’s become a great example of a young goaltender who figured it out very quickly.”

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Canuck jokester welcomes Ballard back into lineup

PITTSBURGH - In honour of Keith Ballard rejoining the lineup for a game tonight, after four healthy scratches in a row, one of his teammates had a little fun at the defenceman's expense.

On the wall in the visitors room there often is taped a sheet for players to sign up for tickets for friends or family in the road city.

Among the handful of requests for tickets to tonight's game, someone wrote K. Ballard in the 'donor' column and T. Vokoun under 'recipient.'

"I think it's hilarious," Ballard said after the morning skate.

It was almost a year ago that Ballard, after being undressed on an Ilya Kovalchuk goal, in frustration swung his stick hard, like he was trying to fell a tree, on the goalpost beside Panthers goalie Tomas Vokoun. Except unknown to Ballard, he'd actually felled his goalie with a chop to the side of the head.

Ballard skated to the bench and was caught by TV cameras sitting bewildered as Vokoun was attended to, then brought off on a stretcher.

Vokoun turned out to be fine and Ballard was able to eventually laugh about the incident, although to this day he feels bad about the example he set for kids.

So, does he have any suspects behind this morning's prank?

"I have a couple of names in mind," he said.

Burrows?

"That's one of them."

Bieksa?

"That's another."

Kesler?

"And another."

http://communities.canada.com/thepro...to-lineup.aspx

:lol

Burrows, Bieksa, and Kesler. Such shit disturbers. :lol