Tinker with a winning line up, suffer the consequences.How do you think the Canuck players felt when Coach V put Kyle Wellwood in the line up, at the expense of Darcy Hordichuk. Who's great idea was it to replace a warrior with the pilsbury dough boy?
Note to Canuck coaching staff: "Toughness in line up, team plays bigger and tougher......toughness out of line up, team plays smaller and weaker."
Please, please send Wellwood to Peoria, or wherever Jeff Cowan was sent. Wellwood has zero respect in the Canuck dressing room. How do you think the Canucks feel when they see a guy who arrived out of shape taking the spot of a player that sticks up for every guy in the room.A "skilled" player, but Wellwood is put on the 4th line until the game is out of hand. Oh, he saw some power play time with Bieksa being out, and Demitra put on the point, but was basically invisible. What the heck were the Canuck brass thinking?
The Canucks win 2 big character building games against a very good Calgary team. Then they tinker with the line up. Absolutely ridiculous.
Note #2 to Canuck brass: "If you want partake in a team building exercise while on the road, get rid of Wellwood".
The Canucks were so bad they were in danger of setting a league record for the fewest shots in a game. 2 shots in the 1st, 1 shot (yes, 1!) in the 2nd and they came on strong (tongue in cheek) in the 3rd and got 7 shots on goal to save themselves the embarrassment of tying, or breaking, the record for fewest shots. Cap goalie Johnson drank coffee during commercial breaks to stay awake.
Let's talk about Pyatt, Demitra and Raymond. Brutal. Demitra has lost a step. Pyatt's lack of footspeed is evident more than ever and he plays way smaller than his size. Time to get Mike Brown into the line up, and now. Put Rypien with Demitra and Raymond (Raymond is a game or two away from being sent down) Put Brown with Johnson and Hordichuk. Where is the fast Demitra of old? Will somebody light a fire under that guy!
Let's not take anything away from the Capitals. They dominated. They are big and very skilled. They will be a force if they can get goaltending. With Theodore and Johnson, they don't have goaltending.
Too bad Coach V (or was it at Gillis' urging?) decided to put Wellwood in the lineup. Look for line up changes in Detroit.
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Newsflash....
"Canucks players trying to decide whether to investment in Huggies or Pampers". It is popcorn dry up here in the Fart but the Wetcoasters let fly the BIG wet one!
Scoop you are out of it. You can't blame that bed shitting on Deadwood entering the lineup. 3 shots in 2 periods and 10 overall. Come on scoop take off the rose coloured glassess! The Caps gave up a touchdown in a loss to the lowley Thrashers. 10 shots on a non-defensive minded team... come on! Scoop, you need to be blaming this lack of effort on the Canuck leaders not Deadwood and certainly not the Coach or Manager.
As for Demitra... he has been and always will be a floater who plays when he wants to. The only "D" he knows is the D in Demitra. He has a some money in the bank and that is all that matters to him. You can blame management for picking up this floater but his lack of effort is in his blood and it is up to the Canuck leaders to get him going.
If you continue to blog this poorly Scoop i will be forced to rename you Pooper Scooper!
Regards,
Fart
I get the feeling you don't like Wellwood. Well I don't like Coach V.
I think you missed your calling and should have been a sports writer!!!
You're doing a great job, don't know where you find the time though.
Great blog Bulldog. It kind of reminds me of how Neil McRae or Don Cherry would view matters but you have raised the bar. I think you need to do a video post, send it to CBC and perhaps you can be the new Don Cherry - complete with the 5 second time delay of course. Look forward to more insights!
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