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Chef Boi RD wrote: ↑Thu Nov 05, 2020 6:38 am

ESQ wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 10:19 pm

Chef Boi RD wrote: ↑Wed Nov 04, 2020 7:09 pm Damonberryman had a few run ins with a number of Genovese soldiers when he was a driver for the Gambino Family Underboss in New York

Do you know the goods? Is it some Strathcona omerta shit?

BerryMan was a Bag man for the Gambino’s, was in the rackets in in New Jersey, on Teamsters payroll, helped setting up slot machines in grocery stores, loansharking, gambling rings the whole kit and kaboodle. He’s now in witness protection living in Port Hardy

2Fingers wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 10:21 am Just reading an article on The Athletic behind a pay wall so I will only say that the author said Canuck fans should not be worried about his production. Teams in KHL loaded like Pods team normally does not give a lot of icetime to a player not committed long term to the KHL team. Really looking forward to him joining the Canucks in the start of 2021/22 season.

Put him on the 2nd line with BHO and with his ELC contract it will be beneficial for the team. Hopefully Green can accept this and work out the little details that is needed within the game to make Pods rookie year a success.

2Fingers wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 10:21 am Just reading an article on The Athletic behind a pay wall so I will only say that the author said Canuck fans should not be worried about his production. Teams in KHL loaded like Pods team normally does not give a lot of icetime to a player not committed long term to the KHL team. Really looking forward to him joining the Canucks in the start of 2021/22 season.

Put him on the 2nd line with BHO and with his ELC contract it will be beneficial for the team. Hopefully Green can accept this and work out the little details that is needed within the game to make Pods rookie year a success.

The best defensive forward award, originally designed for a shadowing winger, has become a center's award. Skill in the face-off circle is an obvious defensive advantage. A team with the puck tends not be scored on. Win the puck in a defensive zone and you are making an important defensive play. Face-off percentage was also a statistic the NHL has kept ad infinitum, so it was available for sports writers to use in their search for the Selke trophy winner.

This has resulted in only three other wingers besides Gainey; Craig Ramsay, Dirk Graham, and Jere Lehtinen winning the award in the thirty one years it has been given out. Meanwhile a pack of centers, known for their faceoff ability, Bobby Clarke, Doug Jarvis, Dave Poulin, Guy Carbonneau, Michael Peca, and Rod Brind'amour have all won the trophy. Skill in the faceoff circle while a component of great defensive play has perhaps been over-represented just because that number has always been there to use.

The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:11 pm Ok canucks fans. Who is the last great defensive specialist winger in the NHL? I'm talking a comparable to what Pod is trending into, elite talent but the points are harder to come by.

Jere Lehtonen is the one guy that seems to comes to mind the most but i also think he wasnt as hamstrrung points wise as Pod has demostrated to date..
In my opinion there isnt currently one right now save for possibly Bergeron.

Heres a discussion about just this topic:

https://bleacherreport.com/articles/365 ... e-forward

The best defensive forward award, originally designed for a shadowing winger, has become a center's award. Skill in the face-off circle is an obvious defensive advantage. A team with the puck tends not be scored on. Win the puck in a defensive zone and you are making an important defensive play. Face-off percentage was also a statistic the NHL has kept ad infinitum, so it was available for sports writers to use in their search for the Selke trophy winner.

This has resulted in only three other wingers besides Gainey; Craig Ramsay, Dirk Graham, and Jere Lehtinen winning the award in the thirty one years it has been given out. Meanwhile a pack of centers, known for their faceoff ability, Bobby Clarke, Doug Jarvis, Dave Poulin, Guy Carbonneau, Michael Peca, and Rod Brind'amour have all won the trophy. Skill in the faceoff circle while a component of great defensive play has perhaps been over-represented just because that number has always been there to use.

So wingers as defensive specialists are far less likely to come along than theur centermen counterparts...this is why the Pod is so incomparable.

Micky wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:55 pm Didn't Ryan Kesler play a ton of right wing? Won his first Selke in 2011. A defensive forward was he. Marvelous! If Podkolzin turns out to be our
next player of that ilk, I'm good with that! ****ing eh!

Micky wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:55 pm Didn't Ryan Kesler play a ton of right wing? Won his first Selke in 2011. A defensive forward was he. Marvelous! If Podkolzin turns out to be our
next player of that ilk, I'm good with that! ****ing eh!

The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 12:22 pm Couldnt stop him



He played at center mostly during his best years. Federov could skate very very well though...i dont see that in the Pod....more of a power forward like Messier without the off foot wrister maybe

The Brown Wizard wrote: ↑Tue Nov 10, 2020 1:59 pm Fuck if we snagged a Russian Bob fucking Gainey to go along with our Swedish Gretzky and Yankee Bobby Orr....