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From Russia with love

heres my recap of the canucks scrimmage then from the prospect camp, yes there were two events and i watched both

Bernier looked slimmer and faster
Wellwood looked fatter, but stronger on the puck
Mason Raymond is the same old speedy guy zippin around
SOB slimmed down and is FASTER, jumped in a few times during scrimmage
i believe all the D played, it was a very fast pace scrimmage, hordichuk made some really blind passes, and it seems theres some good chemistry between raymond/ryan johnson/bernier who played consistently together, there were some nifty moves/passes

as for the two goalies, Schnieder and Raycroft both didnt look too good.

The prospect camped look good, i thot 71 was sherikov..hahaha i was wrong


i manage to catch a glimpse of demitra shooting with luongo, demitra looks like he doesnt have a shot due to injury.

Raycroft was never good. He was awful for the Leafs and beyond awful for the Avs. Scary thing is he'll be getting quite a few starts because of the shitload of road games the Canucks have before and after the Olympic break.

if raycroft is so shitty why did they bother signing him? in hopes of giving schnieder motivation?

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Young Jeezyyy in a nucks uni

Shirokov is good, sick hands/shot.

they got him for cheap

i don't think shirokov's played on small ice before.. might need some seasoning with the Moose first. Let's see how he does during preseason.

He was making 500K in the KHL.

If I'm not mistaken he has played on North American ice before during the WJC's a couple years ago.

yeah, ur right.. WJC in 2005 @ Grand Forks and 2006 here. I probably saw him at a game too but was too busy awing over Malkin.

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned but doesn't Shirokov look like a smaller version of Bernier haha.


And for the "Presale code" for the canucks.. if this is the one given to the Season ticket holders or whatever, it will not work for everybody but that holder only...your order will just get cancelled if you do get an order in. Correct me if I'm wrong

Not if he plays for the Moose haha.

It's one of those moves by MG that has me thinking :confused:. I would have much preferred Sanford as a back up rather than Raycroft.

But whatever, as long as he sees only 10% of the games max, I'm not sweating it.

Maybe cap space? Saved a bit with Raycroft. And I'm not sure Sanford would re-sign after he got shafted last year lol!

Yeah, it's hard to determine eh. I've been trying to find how much Sanford is pulling but my quick google articles are saying that his contract amount is undisclosed.

Sanford couldn't get the job done. That's why (I think) he's gone.

$600K.

http://nhlnumbers.com/overview.php?team=MTL

ugh i hope raycroft never sees a game in a canucks jersey.

Raycroft will go to the minors i believe and Cory will be up as the back up to play a couple of games, if he plays well and wins us games as the back up, he will be traded (higher value) at the trade deadline and raycroft will come up as backup, if Cory stinks up the joint, he'll be sent back down regardless with Raycroft up, thats what i think.

Raycroft is a better NHL goalie than sandford.

Just hit Sanford's name here:
http://www.sportsnet.ca/hockey/2009/...ee_agent_list/

According to that it was $650K, I don't know why but I kept thinking he got paid more. $600K is what MTL is paying him.

I completely agree on this.

Is it just me, or does MG like shopping at the Leaf's used bin? Does he have their UFA List on Internet Explorer Favourites or something.

lol... seems like it? could just be coincidence. he's supposedly searching for players that meet a criteria.. so i doubt its based on one teams leftovers.

Weird. The Canucks charter just landed in Edmonton.