stop being a jerk off. He was shooting and hitting the net. You can be real ass clown sometimes.

Canada is done. F%$KING RUSSIANS

UBC

Yep it sucks but for some reason it doesn't matter as much to me this year. Cause unlike you we have more important hockey to worry about right now :troll:

Can Manny wear a cage and play?

Unlikely, so soon after surgery there is no way his vision is close to even 50% recovered I'd venture to guess. That would mean his peripheral vision would be horrible and the last thing Manny needs is to not see a hit coming rocking him. With bascially only vision in one eye right now, his play and game speed will likely suffer quite a bit. If he had a detached retina or burst globe, no way the surgeon would've cleared him for contact either so soon as that could cause another detachment.

It's not too surprising seeing Manny active right now, after I had my eye surgeries, surgeon cleared me back for jogging/cardio in 3 weeks, heavy weight training in 6 weeks and MMA training in 3.5 months. It's been what now, 2 months for Manny? It'd be amazing if Manny returns for a potential 4th round, but Manny needs to put his long term health first right now.

I feel bad for manny. He's such a team guy, sticking around and cheering on his teammates when he could have easily disappeared ala Willie Mitchell style when he had an concussion.

As much as I'm sure he wants his team to win, it has to be eating him up inside knowing he can't be a part of this. He was such a big factor in out teams success yet he won't get his name on the cup should we win. :(
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It's a lot hard for the fwrd to come back from a injury like this since they use there preferial vision a whole lot more then a D man. I'm really hopeing he will be able to come back for faceoffs that would be beyond wicked.

Never had a concussion eh? They can be severe and all you can handle is a dark room. Mitchell's a man, I think he would have been there if he could have been.
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Like you guys, I'd love it if Malhotra came back this season, but it's also kinda selfish... We want him to be healthy for next year's playoff run as we try to repeat. ;)

Not true - three ways to get your name on the cup:
-play 40+ games for the winning team in regular season (but not get traded away)
-play 1 game in Final round
-special consideration (i.e. Vladimir Konstantinov)

And article from http://canucks.nhl.com/club/news.htm?id=562563 showing that Malhotra is contributing in other ways:

Yea, Maholtra's definitely getting his name on the cup for sure if Canucks win.

The only way I can see Maholtra coming back is if we really need him in the finals.
Like a one game, trump card move, kinda thing.

Save it for a home game, and I bet Canucks will at least win that one game.
Manny with one eye is probably still more effective than a few of our guys.
And just him being on the ice will boost everyone's morale 10x.

Just want Manny to be ready to go next year, seeing him in a tracksuit on the ice basically means he's far from ready. Its sorta like how the Pens had crosby mic'd up and such at games with the coaching staff to aid the team

@mirtle: Van-Nsh series on CBC delivered an average audience of 2.978 million, making it CBC’s highest-rated single Round 2 series ever.

So much for not being Canada's team lol

Good for CBC, but people probably tuned in to catch a glimpse of the green men... and since the ass hat healy made that comment, the Green Men have been getting A LOT more media attention than usual

Does Burrows (and I've seen other players do it too before) have a visor that can lift up?

At the end when he was celebrating, his visor is angled up.
And I'm sure it's not like that during in-game.

more than likely they just pushed up on the visor which would shift the helmet to sit a bit differently

no, on careful inspection, the visor is tilted up high enough that rim of the helmet is inline on the halfway point of the visor.
It's not the helmet that's tilted.

im not sure then. i do that all the time tho when im on the bench or shaking hands after game, just push up on the visor and the helmet sits a bit differently and looks like that. getzlaf played like that through the entire olympics just had his helmet sit differently so the visor didnt bother his vision. you should check for a pic and see if they are similar

No, those visors just have a lot of play in them. You'll see what I mean if you ever put one of those on.

Is it just me or does anyone else care less about the World Championships? To me playoff hockey > the WC's. For one, playoff hockey seems more intense and just overall better to watch. WC's are a bunch of players that are playing on teams that missed the playoffs or got eliminated early.

when u had the whole entire team on top of u, the visor is gonna move alil bit. When ever i get highsticked my visors moves like that

Only because Canada's losing, or has lost the last few that's why people say that.

Now, if Canada's been dominating it, rest assured us fellow Canadians would care much more about another bragging right; same goes if it were to be Americans, Russians et al., who would say they value such tourneys highly.



It also doesn't help that we're going deep in the post season. Had we been elimnated early and Team Canada is your only current source of hockey fix, I'm sure it would matter a lot more to a lot of "hockey" fans.


I meant "hockey" fans to exclude people that are only hockey fans via Canucks solely for hometown pride; bandwagonning.

Must be just me then. I get bored watching Canada and other countries dominate teams like Italy, France, etcetc. I guess I just don't find international hockey appealing unless it's the olympics, whether the Canucks are still in the playoffs or not, barring if some of my favourite players are playing.

danhibiki and aznnightmare do u still think malhotra should have been our captain?