Doyle Hargraves wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 4:42 pm
I’ve played plenty of teams sports my friend.
Baseball and lawn bowling are not sports my friend.
Hockey and baseball are sports my friend.
Peewee doesn't count!
Dickie would skate circles around you and put you on your ass.
JR B Poco Buckaroos 1988-1990.... I did play peewee a few years before that. Funny eniugh I played against our old buddy Clam Russell in the PIJHL. He was a goalie with Mission Pilots.
Rats is the baseball player. Tell him that’s not a sport. I played Fastpitch at Junior and Senior levels.
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Strangelove wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:26 pm
i thought Clam played his Junior B in Lethbridge.
He’s a valley boy. I think he was on a minor league team with the Missing Link. Gates was a fucking animal even as a teenager. He played midget with my cousin in Mission.
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Strangelove wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:38 pm
Frank Anderson LOL
To the original point. Mentors can be invaluable obviously, especially when they can still perform. I think anyone playing pretty much any sport at any level would go along with that. But Skyo’s list was a bit scabby. I’m really hoping for a compliance buyout to be honest.
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Strangelove wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 5:38 pm
Frank Anderson LOL
To the original point. Mentors can be invaluable obviously, especially when they can still perform. I think anyone playing pretty much any sport at any level would go along with that. But Skyo’s list was a bit scabby. I’m really hoping for a compliance buyout to be honest.
Still though, Dickie would skate circles around you and put you on your ass.
Now back to Frank.
The only poster to ever be tag-teamed by Tiger and THINKER?
They pounded him to a bleeding pulp... and then the pack of voracious animals finished him off.
Ok l do remember him but I don’t remember the demise.
Is Dickie some kind of superstar? I was a decent hockey player. Played a couple years SR A with the Blues. That was a fucking meat grinder of a league. Fights every fucking game. We had a terrible team. New West Beavers were the filthiest dirtiest team in the early 90s. Fucking Callahan and the boys. Dirty fucking pricks. Squamish was dirty as hell. Hated playing at Moccasin Square Gardens. It was fun to go to Powell River because we flew. Always got clobbered there. I can’t believe people are still playing full contact SR hockey. Hilarious! I haven’t skated in 20 years. Dickie probably could light me up these days. My gear is buried in the garage and unless I skate on Deka, that’s where it will stay.
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Strangelove wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 6:23 pm
Frank Anderson was full of Frank Anderson.
So of course he did not survive.
He was a lot like MS...
See I kinda remember him like an elder Rikster style poster.
There’s nobody like MS ..... well other than the 100 mouth breather followers he has at the piss pond. Fuck did that guy lose his shit so easily back in the day.
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Doyle Hargraves wrote: ↑Tue Jun 16, 2020 4:13 pm
Miller has been awesome. But we have a captain. Miller would look good with an A no doubt. He is no workhorse though. He’s a thoroughbred.
Roussel is an expensive banged up older wild mustang.
Beagle is a very expensive elderly Clydesdale. Just about ready for the glue factory.
MacEwan is a younger wild mustang with some potential
Ferland is a show pony and very delicate. Maybe he gets hired for birthdays and bar mitzvahs to entertain young children.
Sutter is an old stringy nag that needs to be euthanized
Not seeing these workhorses you speak of.
Hardworking competitive guys that are all thought of highly in every lockerroom they’ve been in. A lot more to team sports than your narrow view. These guys are redundant though now that the young guys are here to provide the culture required.
Lol thanks for the history lesson. I’ve played plenty of teams sports my friend. Let me guess, you’re the Canadian star linebacker Mentors are great when they can actually perform. Except for Miller and Mac those guys are all baked. Having as much deadweight on the books as we do, may force a move of Jake Virtanen for picks.
You missed the part where I said they’re redundant now that the young guys can carry the culture. Ideally the team is able to move on from Louie (retirement), and sutter (trade with some salary retention for futures). There’s room on the roster yet for roussel, and ferland if his concussions are healed and beagle (or sutter if beagle can be moved).
Having said all that a general manager has to plan for the worst case scenario, nobody foresaw petey being the talent he’d be in his +2 and +3 draft years. They were prepared to have petey play a year in the ahl (reason for acquiring Sam gagner, needed center depth insurance to replace the sedins). Petey and Quinn have sped things up so the team is a little behind the eight ball with contracts and salary cap, however, I think we’ll see movement this offseason that will allow us to get better.
The key point about the dark days of this rebuild, is that Benning brought in guys with character and pride.
EVERYONE knew we didn’t have the skill, but JB paid (usually 500k-1m too much and 1 year too long in term) To bring guys in where losing was not acceptable- knowing we were losing because of a lack of skill. And I don’t mean the place holders while we sucked (Etem, Gaunce, etc) But, the Sutter, Beagle, Dorset, kind of warriors that helped keep a ‘try hard -always’ work ethic instead of an ‘Edmonton’ style “we are awesome and deserve it” attitude. We did not develop a ‘losing culture’ like other teams (Buffalo) did.
This is an understated - and misunderstood- part of the last 4 years that happened here ( and everywhere) while there is a rebuild.
... not stroking off Benning for this, or saying he did it 100% right, just stating a fact as to what appears to be his method.
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