Weise or Volpatti?

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Weise or Volpatti

Weise
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Neither
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Re: Weise or Volpatti?

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Arbour wrote:So the Canucks waive a player who they really didn't have to waive because of the injury to Kesler, and who is immediately claimed by another team, and replace that player with one who previously cleared waivers because no other team would claim him. I realize that it's basically fourth line players but ending up with Ebbett instead of Volpatti...something had better be in the works because this makes absolutely no sense.
Unless Volpatti can play centre, he was not going to replace Kesler. MG could waive Barker instead of Volpatti. What is the point of keeping Barker? He is at best the 8th defenseman on this team. As bad as Alberts has been, AV still has him ahead of Barker. What is the point of carrying so many defensemen when the major concern is up front right now?
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Re: Weise or Volpatti?

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Arachnid wrote:Whose for starting a Bring Back Brian Burke thread? :D
Or a Fire Mikie Hire Clarkie thread for that matter. 8-)

If this waiving of Volpatti was just to create room for Pinizzotto like they're saying I just don't get it.

Cuz hey, they're both just a coupla you-know-wots amirite?

Volpatti was an average NHL 4th-liner at best and Pinizzotto is an aspiring-to-be NHL 4th-liner.

Pinizzotto has never played an NHL game and played a grand total of 17 AHL games in the last two seasons.

And he'll be 29 in April.

FFS just leave Volpatti where he is and waive the injury-prone Pinizzotto.

Or better yet, get a GOOD 4th-liner in here and stop messing around with you-know-wots. :mex:
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Re: Weise or Volpatti?

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Strangelove wrote:
Arachnid wrote:Whose for starting a Bring Back Brian Burke thread? :D
Or a Fire Mikie Hire Clarkie thread for that matter. 8-)

If this waiving of Volpatti was just to create room for Pinizzotto like they're saying I just don't get it.

Cuz hey, they're both just a coupla you-know-wots amirite?

Volpatti was an average NHL 4th-liner at best and Pinizzotto is an aspiring-to-be NHL 4th-liner.

Pinizzotto has never played an NHL game and played a grand total of 17 AHL games in the last two seasons.

And he'll be 29 in April.

FFS just leave Volpatti where he is and waive the injury-prone Pinizzotto.

Or better yet, get a GOOD 4th-liner in here and stop messing around with you-know-wots. :mex:
I think thats the thing Doc...none of this makes any sense...could it be to set up something else? still makes no sense patti was better fodder than 17ahlgame pinzy...

unless GMMG said ok caps i am waiving volpatti ..you grab him then we will make a trade after you get him for free...no thats dumb...so whats up???
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Re: Weise or Volpatti?

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I am sorry to see the kid go but he reminds me of Roberto Duran...hands of stone. Good fighter though. Little bit like the Ripper.
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Jovocop wrote: Unless Volpatti can play centre, he was not going to replace Kesler.
That's why we have the GREAT EBBETT!
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Jovocop wrote:
Arbour wrote:So the Canucks waive a player who they really didn't have to waive because of the injury to Kesler, and who is immediately claimed by another team, and replace that player with one who previously cleared waivers because no other team would claim him. I realize that it's basically fourth line players but ending up with Ebbett instead of Volpatti...something had better be in the works because this makes absolutely no sense.
Unless Volpatti can play centre, he was not going to replace Kesler. MG could waive Barker instead of Volpatti. What is the point of keeping Barker? He is at best the 8th defenseman on this team. As bad as Alberts has been, AV still has him ahead of Barker. What is the point of carrying so many defensemen when the major concern is up front right now?
Cuz this is another AV brain fart.

Why didn't they start Cam Barker at the Wolves, then they wouldn't have to waive anybody, and he'd get some playing time instead of munching cheezies in the press box.

So now we've lost Volpatti - Caps picked him up today
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Zamboni Driver wrote:
Why didn't they start Cam Barker at the Wolves, then they wouldn't have to waive anybody, and he'd get some playing time instead of munching cheezies in the press box.

So now we've lost Volpatti - Caps picked him up today
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Things are amiss when the loss of Volpatti has people worried. I liked him and like most of you will forget all about him.
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Re: Weise or Volpatti?

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Zamboni Driver wrote:
Cuz this is another AV brain fart.
Why? I thought the GM had the final say of player personnel moves

Haters gonna hate
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dhabums wrote:Things are amiss when the loss of Volpatti has people worried. I liked him and like most of you will forget all about him.
One of the few Canucks that could actually fight, Weise trys but just seems to end up a punching bag.
When the team needs some toughness it's troubling to see this guy lost to waivers - especially when it didn't need to happen at all
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Volpatti was the best body checker we have had since Torres and he would drop the gloves when needed. Too bad he's gone.
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http://www.theprovince.com/sports/hocke ... rel=894638
Putting Volpatti on waivers opened up a roster spot for the Canucks — which is what was necessary to get Pinizzotto playing again, either in Chicago or in Vancouver — after he had suffered a groin injury playing for the Wolves on Nov. 24.

Pinizzotto — who was playing on an AHL contract separate from the two-way deal ($600,000/$275,000) he signed with the Canucks last July — needed to “re-enter” the NHL after his injury spanned the Bermuda Triangle of the lockout, the transition period and then the startup into the truncated 2013 season. You could say his situation was complicated.


So there you have it...
He waives Patti then finds out about Keslers foot. He needed a hole for pinner and now he's gone.
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Re: Weise or Volpatti?

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Volpatti had problems cracking the Canuck's lineup. He was below Weise on the depth chart.

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Re: Weise or Volpatti?

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Topper wrote:Volpatti had problems cracking the Canuck's lineup. He was below Weise on the depth chart.

Why the long face Celine?
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Eye Tye or A-Rab....down unda they're all the fookin woggoes
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