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I now hereby proclaim that we are officially in the Sabre off-season.
I second that proclamation. ;)
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Gillis is on record as having to deal with Hodgson's dad.
Here is Hodgson's dad.....a Canadian politician, who when head of the Ontario Parks dept., after a long standoff with Native protesters was quoted by a high ranking government official as telling the police to "Get those F'n Indians out of my park!" Moments later the police opened fire and killed a protestor.
http://www.attorneyg...Submissions.pdf
Isn't it cute when someone does some real due dilligence?
Red flag came out at deadline time with articles about how Hodgson's dad was involved with micromanaging his kid and it pissed off the Canucks. Looked into his dad. I tried to point out nicely at the trade what the deal was...but nobody seems to want to follow breadcrumbs around here.
I especially liked the part about that episode of W.K.R.P. in Cincinnati where they drop live turkeys from the helicopter as part of a promotion but forget that Turkeys don't fly.
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When a guy who ordered the murder of a group of native american protestors gets on you about something...you tend to listen.
Huh ?
I think it's a lot of things Bun
Van hurt his early progress by not identifying jis back injury properly.
Then he's not right and Vigneault says he has a bad camp and was trying to make excuses.
Now they're trying to say they made him look good??? How, by playing him with a new linemate every night? By not givin him icetime ?
I think he wanted to play and knew he had to wait awhile to do so and I think the relationship was skewed from the get go. So he got moved.
But I think the Canucks are spinning it the way they want to.
Funny but Hodgson took the high road and never said a word about why the trade went down.
Gillis looks bad on this topic if you ask me.
And I'm glad Hodgson is ours.
The Canucks should have kept CH until the summer and then dealt him. They missed his offensive game against LA.
I agree Rick. Gillis looks bad on this trade and he's spinnin it. It may turn out that Kassian is a decent player in this league but for right now it looks bad.
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Gillis will never say he made a bad deal for Kassian.
If Cody Hodgson believes in himself enough to want out of Vancouver, then this bodes well for the Sabres.
I don't think it's arrogance but more so, confidence. He knew he was always a 3rd line guy for the foreseeable future and wanted to play a bigger role. He's got his chance so let's up he proves his worth for us.
And the actual quotes are here.... Nowhere did he say "his issues"....
Actually on the T.S.N. web sight he did say issues in the article I read.? Does it matter? To Cody and his peeps Gillis probably had issues that they had to deal with.
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I'm currently reading the mammoth book of pirates by Jon E. Lewis. Incredibly detailed first hand accounts of famous pirates exploits by the likes of Edward Teach ( Blackbeard ), Henry Morgan, Howard Pyle and Captain Kidd. Take every nasty stereotype you've ever heard about pirates and multiply, double or triple it. Its cool to read these stories from a historic perspective rather than Hollywoods take. One of the more noteworthy was Howard Pyles taking of Panama from the Spanish. Imagine ransacking a city,Holding it Ransom and sailing into the sunset with all of the riches after holding the city hostage for months. What a party.
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*insert inevitable size and toughness rebuttal here* :P
I think that's the thing I look at for Vancouver. Right now they need the player they believe Kassian can be...in a year or two down the road. He's not what they need at this particular point in time, which is why I was shocked the trade happened. By the time Kassian fully develops, there's a good chance Henrik Sedin will be in steep decline (it may already be starting) and at that point Hodgson would have a role on the team. If Kassian were more developed it would have made more sense to me from Vancouver's perspective.
One thing I take from the article, which could be perceived in a positive or negative light, was the bit about how some teammates thought Hodgson was a little bit too ambitious. In that locker room I can see how it would be a problem--you're a rookie behind Hart and Selke winners on the depth chart, shutup and do as you're told to do. On the other hand I think that's EXACTLY the kind of attitude the Sabres have been missing in the locker room. We desperately needed a guy who wanted to be a star, who wants ice time, wants the puck in critical situations. Is he ready for the entirety of that load as a rookie? Unlikely. However I want a guy with that attitude on my team, and hopefully leading the team in the not-too-distant future.
At the time of the trade they interviewed Luongo and a few other Canucks about losing Hodgson and Luongo kept saying Hodgson had a big head then laughing. At one point another canuck who just happened to be walking by said ' who, Cody ? ' in response to hearing Luongo say big head. This went on for quite a while during the interview with laughs and remarks thrown in from the other players in the dressing room. I'm sure he was liked in the room but you could tell the players felt he had a bit of an ego problem which isn't uncommon for pro's but maybe not a rookie.
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Here's how you know this isn't a great show: I watched Season 1, skipped ALL of season 2, and then came back in for the S2 finale and it didn't feel like I'd missed anything. Basically it took me a couple minutes to figure out what had happened in the previous 12 episodes.
I enjoyed all the zombie killing in the first half of the episode, but I'm still not sure what the plan was. They see a few thousand zombies bearing down on their farm and decide to drive around in circles shooting at them? Even discounting that these characters can miraculously score perfect headshots from moving vehicles on un-even terrain, I don't see how that was supposed to work. (It didn't.)
I like the way Rick kills Shane in self-defense but somehow picks the single worst way to explain that to the rest of the group: "I KILLED HIM! I WANTED TO DO IT!!!! HE KEPT PUSHING ME!!!!!! SO I KILLED HIM!!!!!!1! ......oh, and by the way he pulled a gun on me and said his plan was to kill me and then steal my family......but.....anyways....... I KILLED HIM!!!"
Introducing a new character who has a samurai sword and slave zombies is a little rough too. They couldn't figure out a way to tell an interesting story in a post-apocalyptic world full of zombies without resorting to cartoonish gimmick characters?
The lady with the hood and the 2 armless zombie slaves is straight out of the comic book series. This is an escape from reality not reality so don't ask for reality in a zombie series. Sorry. It don't exist.
So that was by far the best episode yet. So nitpicking it seems wrong. But..... What I didn't like was that hokiness with the lady in black with two zombies on a chain. That almost has the impact of cheapening this to a b-rated film on the SCF-FY channel. They were cruising along just fine. They don't need that crap to start another story line.
And finally... they ran out of gas.... I'm still amazed they killed off Shane..
What a fantastic series....
Again as they said last night on talking dead the new hooded character is straight out of the comic series and apparently she is one of the most popular characters. Staying true to the comics the series is based on doesn't make the series hokie.Imo.
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Just watched the last episode and they're setting up season 3 quite nicely. On talking dead they admit they are introducing a new female character played by a black actress. She was the biggest teaser of the last episode season 2 when she appeared out of nowhere to save Andrea. She of the hood and the armless zombie slaves. Muhahahaha ! Can't wait for season 3. The fall seems so far away.
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Keep in mind that Shane cut his own hand in a previous episode with a knife that he had just a few scenes previously used to debrain a zombie...........
So like someone said up thread you can carry the virus from a scratch ect. but it won't actually show itself till you die then it re-animates you as a zombie. Makes sense.
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The wife said shane was going to kill rick and I had a feeling this would go down like this with shane underestimating rick because of ricks quick thinking in the bar scene. Glad to see him done. Interesting factoid revealed about how zombies don't necessarily have to be bit to be infected and become Zombies. This changes everything. Next week should be epic.
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As for MAG -- Vigneault must like him a little, because he's not being healthy-scratched, right? Wasn't Sulzer the #7 guy when he got traded? So MAG has come in and taken someone's spot? Or is one of the other defensemen injured? Not arguing, just asking.
I think MAG has potential but he has a long way to go before he's as steady defensively as Sulzer looked last night.
As for getting the better of the trade -- I hope you're right and kinda expect this to be the case, but we're a long way from knowing. I'd sure like to see some finish out of Hodgson (or his linemates, or really anyone on the Sabres).
Me too. But those forwards make me want to throw a rock at my screen. At the end of the year when I feel like getting myself PO'd I'm going to check the schedule and count the number of 3-1 losses and the number of periods with 7 shots on goal or less.
Ballard is out with a capcussion.
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Which kind of makes it more realistic when you think about it. Having this show with five supermodel women on it would be ridiculous...
But they sure would be tasty. Grrrrr !!!
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Hey guys, I'm from Vancouver and hate this trade for Canucks, so i decided to switch team huehuehue.
From watching Hodgson since 08, you guys will be amazed by him soon ;D
Welcome aboard. I'm going to be patient with Cody. From what I saw of him playing in a Vancouver uni he impressed me. Haven't seen much yet in a sabres uni but as he gets more comfortable with his role here I'm sure he'll fit in. I won't lie. I think we need what Zack brings in terms of toughness and grit and size as much as we need centremen.
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I realize its a different trade but the Canucks brass has said it targeted Gragnani last trade deadline but couldn't pry him out of Buffalo. Apparently he's been on their radar for a while. They see him becoming a much better player than he's shown in Buffalo and the way they played him last night against the sabres I could see this happening.
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The thread that just keeps on giving...
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There you go. See what happens when you set the bar low? And the great thing is, he only costs $4 million!
By the way...Paul Hamilton says Hodgson refuses to answer the question if he asked to be traded. That's always encouraging from someone I'm told has leadership potential. He'd rather be getting more minutes on one of the worst teams in the league than being a #3 center on the best team in the league who was 1 goal from winning a Stanley Cup last year.
Kassian never ate chicken wings? Maybe he is a fruitcake. How do you not eat a freaking chicken wing in Buffalo? I'm sure even Ryan Miller puts down the tofu and patchuli a few times a year and says "F-it.....yum..yum..yum..."
By game time tomorrow night Cody will be a basket case from all the media. They've been on the trade request question since the deadline and won't let it go. Who cares? Today they were saying that Rich Winter is his fourth player agent. This kid and his father could turn out to be a colossal headache for this organization. I wonder if Darcy did his homework on this kid. I'm hoping for the best. The kid seems o.k. but perhaps he's surrounded himself with idiots.
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Ron Wilson getting fired in Toronta.
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Give me a name of a 200lb forward who could score 15 goals and throw 100 hits that developed under Ruff? Grosek?
http://www.teamradio...an-on-team1040/
Gragnani couldn't even fake a good word about Lindy Ruff and admitted it to the hosts. Starts a little before 3 min mark.
Kassian was pretty blah...other than I'm glad he got traded because he claims he never ate chicken wings. WTF?
Ya I almost coughed up a wing when I heard the host ask that. I'm not sure if its just Van. but the radio takes jabs at the city of Buffalo all the time. Why would you ever want to live there, yadda yadda yadda. All the usual stuff. They like to call the sabres sad sack etc. Its kind of tiring considering when this franchise was lighting it up prior to the black day we all remember the canucks were the sad sack org. I think the debacle of letting Drury and Briere go kind of started that whole meme.
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Heard an interview on 1040 out of Vancouver today and he called the sabres underachievers. Can't really say he's wrong and it was my feeling he was talking about the organization and not the players. He also said in response to the question as to why he turned down the offer to fight against the coyotes tough guy that he isn't going to waste his time fighting a guy that plays 4 minutes a game and that the canucks have given him the go ahead to fight if its from a big hit or whatever but they want him to concentrate on playing hockey. Sounded like they feel like he does and that they want him to be an all around player and not just a goon. Can't blame him for that too.
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But that's already not what we were hoping for with the "Concept of Zack Kassian." I wanted someone who was ready to fight anyone, anywhere, at any time. And 1-0 or 1-1 early in the game is a fine time to drop the gloves. Why not? If you're tough and going to win the fight anyway, why not get your team pumped up?
Not only is Lucic an amazing fighter, I've never seen him decline to fight. (Maybe he has, but I've never seen it.) Not only does he not shy away from trouble, he goes out of his way to start it. He basically challenged every single Sabres player to a fight by blatantly smashing into their star goalie.
I get your point but Kassian is Kassian not Lucic. And a young inexperienced Kassian at that. Its a tough role to play and as others have said he seems to be trying to develop into a hockey player that can fight not a fighter that can play hockey.
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To be fair though, I'm getting a feeling that the Sabres community has turned a little Boston-ish on Kassian here. That fanbase and even officials in the organization (more than most, it seems) have a tendency to tear down some outgoing players, managers, etc. Look no further than Terry Francona and Johnny Damon.
I know Kassian's NHL stint(s) were somewhat underwhelming, but I've been somewhat shocked to see how quickly the Buffalo fanbase has turned on Kassian. Maybe it's because of the high expectations on Vancouver's end, but you'd think he was absolute trash the way some people are depicting him.
I Won't tear him down mainly because I had high hopes for him becoming that player and I was excited about his potential. Some people have to tear him down as he goes out the door to make themselves feel better about what they gave up ..He is only 21 and 20 games into his career. I think he may become 'that' player in a winning atmosphere like Vancouver? Who knows.
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When has he ever "picked a partner" for the sake of picking a partner?
When has he ever "picked a partner" for the sake of picking a partner?
I changed my wording for you scott. Maybe he doesn't like dancing ,I don't know? I can change that wording too if its not to your satisfaction. :P
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Paul Bissonnette asked Kassian to fight tonight.
Kassian declined.
Do with that what you will.
It was either a 1-0 game or tied at that point. Not sure he wants to fight and possibly put his team down. Wait till they are beating the sabres 5-1 on saturday night and he'll dance.
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It'll be fun.
What you think of this deal?
I had high hopes for Zack and I kind of hate to see that type of player go but from what I've seen of Cody this year I'm really excited Regier was able to land him. You can't teach what he has as far as I'm concerned. As far as hockey instinct goes.
Kassian to Vancouver for Hodgson
in The Aud Club
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I listen to the Vancouver sports media every day at work on 1040 and every time Gillis talked about his first draft pick ever he absolutely gushed about the kid. His above average intelligence, his work ethic, his hockey sense ( which was off the board apparently ), his outstanding character, his desire to be the best, yadda yadda yadda. It was all about pumping the tires of the kid he used his first overall pick on and was really him endorsing his own choice in making that pick. Now he does the opposite and attackes the kids character, his motives, his family, yadda yadda yadda. Basically endorsing his choice in making that trade.At this point is anyone surprised that Gillis would throw Cody under the bus while at the same time he pumps Kassians tires ?