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08-03-2010, 01:40 PM
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Wow, -just found out that the Canucks fired assistant coach Ryan Walter.
News1130.com has an article about the firing.
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08-03-2010, 01:52 PM
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08-03-2010, 02:02 PM
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I'm surprised that Ryan got fired, wishful thinking about Linden next in line?
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08-03-2010, 02:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Jah Gekko I'm surprised that Ryan got fired, wishful thinking about Linden next in line? | No, they've already signed his replacement.
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08-03-2010, 02:41 PM
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Originally Posted by pastarocket Wow, -just found out that the Canucks fired assistant coach Ryan Walter.
News1130.com has an article about the firing. | Quote:
Originally Posted by Jah Gekko I'm surprised that Ryan got fired, wishful thinking about Linden next in line? | Why are you surprised?
He was in charge of our D and PK special teams. Our PK special teams SUCKED hard during the playoffs. | |
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08-03-2010, 03:48 PM
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The hiring of Ryan Walter puzzled me to begin with, he came out of the Sportsnet commentary cast right into the Canucks organization. You'd think they would hire someone who was currently coaching either in the AHL or elsewhere.
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08-03-2010, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Ch28 Why are you surprised?
He was in charge of our D and PK special teams. Our PK special teams SUCKED hard during the playoffs. | Surprised that he wasn't fired right after the season was done but obviously the Canucks didn't find a replacement until now.
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08-03-2010, 04:32 PM
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08-03-2010, 05:16 PM
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Filatov back to CBJ.
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08-03-2010, 08:00 PM
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08-03-2010, 10:27 PM
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Originally Posted by invader there goes the bieksa rumor Posted via RS Mobile | he's going to be traded either way.
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08-03-2010, 10:33 PM
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Originally Posted by spoon.ek9 he's going to be traded either way. | but the question is what we're going to get in return.
I'm just hoping for some draft picks in 2011 and 2012 since we already have a good roster and rookies looking a spot.
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08-04-2010, 09:53 AM
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A little off-topic, but here's a great article on the first Asian player to ever play in the NHL - Larry Kwong. Quote: A hockey trailblazer emerges from obscurity
Tom Hawthorn
Victoria — From Thursday's Globe and Mail
Published on Tuesday, Aug. 03, 2010 7:14PM EDT
Last updated on Tuesday, Aug. 03, 2010 7:27PM EDT
After he retired from hockey, Larry Kwong raised a family and built a business in Calgary.
He rarely spoke about his exploits on the ice, in part because few ever asked. He had played but a single game in the National Hockey League, his turn on the ice so brief as to seem more a dream with each passing year.
He did not make a fuss over being ignored.
Time passed. His children grew up, had children of their own. He mourned one wife, then a second, the seeming blessing of a long life cursed by the loss of those he loved.
A fine athlete who played professional hockey for 12 seasons in four countries and later became a tennis instructor, he came to be betrayed by his own body.
Diabetes claimed his left leg. A year later, he lost his right. An athlete whose dipsy-doodles on the ice once caused grief for defencemen and goaltenders now wore artificial legs, needing crutches, or a wheelchair, to move from room to room in his own apartment.
He once confessed to me a wish to be done with the rigours of living. He did not seriously contemplate the end, though, as he felt a duty to his family, especially his grandchildren, to be a part of their lives.
Mr. Kwong is 87 now, slowed by damnable infirmity, but still sharp of mind and blessed with a dry sense of humour. He has needed it.
Chad Soon, a 38-year-old elementary-school teacher in Vernon, is campaigning to gain for the old player long-overdue recognition. Mr. Kwong broke the colour barrier in the NHL as the first player of Asian descent to skate in the league.
Why do so few know his story?
“Here’s a guy raised not to speak out. Not to draw attention to himself. To be seen and not be heard. Sort of the traditional Chinese upbringing,” Mr. Soon said.
Mr. Soon, a third-generation Canadian whose Chinese side of the family has been in this country longer than his British side, first learned of Mr. Kwong from his grandfather, a contemporary who had followed the exploits of a player known as the China Clipper.
When moving cross-Canada to take a job in Mr. Kwong’s hometown, Mr. Soon made a pilgrimage to the player’s home, where he heard his life story and examined his hockey memorabilia. It was a moment never to be forgotten.
“People have never heard of him,” he said. “Such a compelling story. So deserving of recognition. I became determined to do what I could to get him some attention.”
Mr. Kwong was the 14th of 15 children born to an immigrant grocer with the venerable name Eng. The family became known as Kwong from their grocery store Kwong Hing Lung (Abundant Prosperity). He lost his father at age 5. Like so many boys, he spent cold winter evenings during the Depression listening to Foster Hewitt broadcast hockey games on the radio.
He played the game himself on borrowed skates with makeshift equipment on the frozen ponds of the Okanagan. From so humble a beginning, his great skill as a skater and sharpshooter earned him a spot with the Smoke Eaters in Trail, where he was barred from taking a well-paying job at the smelter like his teammates because of his ethnic heritage. Instead, he worked as a bellboy, a servile job. He played more senior hockey in Nanaimo and Vancouver before enlisting in the army during the Second World War. In 1946, at age 23, the fleet forward joined the New York Rovers, an amateur team that played at Madison Square Garden.
The Manhattan sportswriters called him King Kwong, a teasing nickname for a man who stood just 5-foot-6, weighed just 150 pounds.
He finally got a call-up by the parent New York Rangers for a game at the Montreal Forum. Near the end of the game, he was allowed on the ice for the briefest of shifts. His career was limited to a New York minute and he was never again to be given the opportunity.
After the snub, he signed with the Valleyfield Braves, where he was a top scorer and a most-valuable player in the senior Quebec league. He later played in England and Switzerland, where he also coached, before returning to Canada, where he built a grocery business in Calgary and lived in anonymity, his trailblazing forgotten, or ignored.
That anonymity is coming to a happy end.
Two years ago, Mr. Kwong and his daughter travelled to Vernon to speak to Mr. Soon’s Grades 5 and 6 class at Mission Hill Elementary. The walls of the classroom were lined by the pupils’ posters.
On the same visit, Mr. Kwong was pushed onto the ice before a Vernon Vipers junior hockey game to drop the puck for a ceremonial opening faceoff. Mr. Soon remembers the crowd offering polite applause until the public-address announcer introduced him as the first player from the Okanagan to play in the NHL. Mr. Kwong received a standing ovation lasting more than two minutes.
More recently, the province’s hockey establishment, as well as local politicians, gathered in Penticton for an induction dinner for the new members of the B.C. Hockey Hall of Fame. A special pioneer award was presented to Mr. Kwong.
Afterwards, in a column for his constituents, Okanagan-Coquihalla MP Stockwell Day confessed he joined many in attendance in never having heard of the player.
“He had truly blazed the way and taken the hits so that my grandkids and yours will never have to face the painful barriers that kept him from every young kid’s dream,” Mr. Day wrote.
Many came by to pay tribute, including former Vancouver Canucks captain Trevor Linden.
Now, Mr. Soon is preparing a submission to be presented to the selection board of the B.C. Sports Hall of Fame.
As well, the irrepressible Todd Wong, who, as Toddish McWong, marries Robbie Burns Day with Chinese New Year in a celebration he calls Gung Haggis Fat Choy, is seeking an Order of British Columbia for Mr. Kwong.
All these years later, Mr. Kwong is at last receiving his due.
He has also come to the realization that perhaps he was a hero, just like the schoolchildren insist. Not that you’ll ever hear him say that.
Special to The Globe and Mail
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08-04-2010, 10:15 AM
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08-04-2010, 12:41 PM
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08-04-2010, 01:37 PM
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08-04-2010, 02:17 PM
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Well if you ran a business would you like someone going into monthly tyraids bashing that business's product from the inside?
In the last few years I've grown to dislike him more and more and to be honest the rants he gets into sound more like a senile old man than a professional color analyst
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08-04-2010, 02:35 PM
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On the flipside, I'd be a little annoyed by blatant homer-ism. I prefer somewhat balanced commentary. A good play is a good play. A bad play is a bad play. I don't think it's necessary to sugar coat anything. That would be borderline censorship and I'd say ruins a bit of their credibility.
I've lived in cities (Denver) where they have blatant homer-ism and it's sickening. They go as far as to find something bad to say about the other team when their team goofed up. It makes you want to mute the audio and just watch the game. I'm certainly glad that commentary here is nothing like that.
If it indeed is true that they got rid of Larscheid because he wasn't enough of a homer, then I'm disappointed in the Canucks organization. Rather than put effort into providing a better product, they're getting rid of the commentator for calling them out.
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08-04-2010, 02:41 PM
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hahaha I think Larscheid is the biggest homer out there, actually. He has the most animated voice on radio, and I swear he pees a little every time we score in the playoffs. He only shits on the team sometimes because he cares sooooo damn much, and it peeves him to see the team play poorly.
Fuck the rumours. Tom Larscheid is a G.
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08-04-2010, 03:13 PM
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08-04-2010, 03:50 PM
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Originally Posted by syee If it indeed is true that they got rid of Larscheid because he wasn't enough of a homer, then I'm disappointed in the Canucks organization. Rather than put effort into providing a better product, they're getting rid of the commentator for calling them out. | Exactly. It's always nice to have a voice in the media that will go after the team when things are fucking up.
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08-04-2010, 04:06 PM
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^ Agreed, but Larscheid's emotions overtook his professionalism too often IMO.
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08-04-2010, 04:32 PM
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08-04-2010, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by Nodnarb ^ Agreed, but Larscheid's emotions overtook his professionalism too often IMO. | pretty much, he didnt know where to draw the line anymore, and imo a large result of the reason he was let go, if infact he was pushed was because he's property of the team1040
the Canucks basically own the team, what else would they have without their biggest money maker? the lions and Canadians?
the shit that tommy would go off on was nitrous fuel for retard listeners who get the ball rolling for idiotic rants and it would snowball for weeks at a time
Luongo has an off night and tommy goes on a 10 minute rant about how your "most expensive man" has to perform and it's unaccaptable not to bla bla bla
i cant remember specific examples but there were at least 3 times last year listening to the radio during either interviews or post-game analysis where i was boiling listening to the shit he was spewing
it was pretty funny driving home today listening and both Pratt and Taylor were tip-toeing all around the whole subject, just refering to an ed willis article that talked about the whole situation but they never once mentioned tommy's name over like 15 minutes of discussion, then finally somone phoned up and gave MG props, but then he said he would feel completely different about MG's character if this was indeed the case, and how "Mrs.Team" is a coward for bowing down to the demands of the canucks
Pratt and Taylor couldnt say anything after that lol, they were being so carefull it was gross
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08-04-2010, 05:29 PM
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I liked Larscheid's passion and the entertainment value he brought to the position, but as others have mentioned, often times he sounded like a senile old man...
I HATE Tomlinson and am not impressed with him taking over the role. However, he has filled in before, and as long as he stays away from "who's hot in hockey" and "under the radar" segments I'm good.
Some of my favourite Larscheid quotes:
"Bingo bango bongo, his name is Roberto Luongo!"
"I just came from the Canucks dressing room and Pavel's groin has never felt better."
"Oh that was a great hand job by Skudra! He really helped out Ohlund with that one!"
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