Ray Ferraro on the Canucks season ending, what they need to add and more
Former NHLer and ESPN NHL Analyst Ray Ferraro joined the guys to chat about the Canucks season coming to a close, their big decisions this summer and more.
Let’s not pretend the players union doesn’t play a huge role in players signing elsewhere for more as a “benefit” to other players down the road and moreover, to the union itself. It’s the nature of unions.
Ray Ferraro is absolutely one of the very best analysts and game commentators in the NHL. I was really pissed when Sportsnet brought in Cuthbert and Simpson from Toronto to do the Canucks/Oilers series, instead of John Shorthouse and Ray Ferraro like I was hoping.
Tired of hearing we need to find a top tier line mate for Peterson. Elite players make average players into good players. Hymans best total 21 goals until McDavid made him into a 36 and 54 goal scorer. There are plenty of examples throughout the league over the years.
Ray is the best Why not move Lindholm to line 2 and petey to line three regular seasons a power play. Meyers will go on his own so will hronek keep Z .try trade ufa for few 1 or 2 picks we will lose players anyways
I had tendinitis as a competitive swimmer. People don’t realize how much it affects you. In day to day life, you might feel discomfort and take a Tylenol. But when you have to exert yourself physically, it’s a nightmare. You feel like nothing is working because it isn’t. It’s a horrible feeling. You’re not in excruciating pain, but there is the physical aspect as well as the psychological one. You just feel awkward and achy.
I wish he picked his favorite 2 of the 4 players Dhali asked him about, cap issues be damned. At the end of the day the game is still hockey, and then accounting after that.
Some years ago, I had what I would call 'an irritated wrist'. You wring a cloth out, and damn, it just doesn't feel right, not painful, just not quite right. It felt like it needed a minor tweak, an adjustment, to get things aligned, and all would be well.
So, one afternoon, when I was fed up with it, I tried to tweak it a bit. A little pull here, a little twist there, nothing violent at all, just hoping it would all snap into place and feel good again.
That night, I woke around 3 am feeling like someone was trying to saw my hand off. Like I'd snapped a bone, and my manipulations had trapped a major nerve between the jagged bone fragments. Forget about sleep, I was pacing my apartment, cradling the wounded appendage and wondering just what the actual F had happened to it. I'd seen wrist braces on grocery cashiers in the past, watched them moving little cans across the scanner, thinking 'pfft, come ON, you'll have to try harder that THAT for some compo….'
I wore a brace for 4 months, and even the vibrations from DRIVING were utter misery, so rather than slagging Petterson for looking 'placid, uncaring', understand that he's being medicated to the legally permitted hilt to even be functional, let alone perform at his best.
High end sports, with THAT!? Yeah, no thanks. Hope he comes back to form next season, and the Canucks can FINALLY bring home that elusive cup.
Yes I'm willing to give Petey and the team some slack on how this went. But even in that case it's not a great sign that some tendonitis can thwart your superstar player. We see time and again all of the greats playing through truly horrible injuries and somehow finding a way to produce. Because they're a cut above the rest and can adapt. If Petey had better puck protection skills, or even was just harder to push over it wouldn't be such an issue. Lots to work on, and that's on him.
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isn't this about the canucks?
McDavid should have bèen suspended for a game .. cry baby
their are not worth that much money any player
Let’s not pretend the players union doesn’t play a huge role in players signing elsewhere for more as a “benefit” to other players down the road and moreover, to the union itself. It’s the nature of unions.
Ray Ferraro is absolutely one of the very best analysts and game commentators in the NHL. I was really pissed when Sportsnet brought in Cuthbert and Simpson from Toronto to do the Canucks/Oilers series, instead of John Shorthouse and Ray Ferraro like I was hoping.
Can someone explain the Whitecaps situation? What happened there?
Joshua under $2 million, if not pass.
Z over Myers.
Myers over Hronic
The team has no grit, other than Zadorov and Hronek. We need a couple forwards that are like these guys before we can be considered a contender.
Ray, scoring 40 and 41 goals makes you a 40 goal scorer. Be proud of yourself man, you were a great hockey player.
Tired of hearing we need to find a top tier line mate for Peterson. Elite players make average players into good players. Hymans best total 21 goals until McDavid made him into a 36 and 54 goal scorer.
There are plenty of examples throughout the league over the years.
How much you payin this guy to sit in his hotel room sipping a Starbucks with an unmade bed in the background to talk about the oil, Florida etc…
Ray is the best
Why not move Lindholm to line 2 and petey to line three regular seasons a power play. Meyers will go on his own so will hronek keep Z .try trade ufa for few 1 or 2 picks we will lose players anyways
He picked the oilers even though his own security ige works for the canucks. A complete clown.
I had tendinitis as a competitive swimmer. People don’t realize how much it affects you. In day to day life, you might feel discomfort and take a Tylenol. But when you have to exert yourself physically, it’s a nightmare. You feel like nothing is working because it isn’t. It’s a horrible feeling. You’re not in excruciating pain, but there is the physical aspect as well as the psychological one. You just feel awkward and achy.
Diet can help Petterson's inflammation. Also less video games!
I wish he picked his favorite 2 of the 4 players Dhali asked him about, cap issues be damned. At the end of the day the game is still hockey, and then accounting after that.
I'm guessing that turf at BC Place feels as crappy as it looks? 🤔 Too bad the World Cup wasn"t next month, the field would be natural grass by now.
We might not have cap space or draft picks but we have prospects
MLS should be litigated all ticket buyers compensated.. total horseshit
So, about tendonitis:
Some years ago, I had what I would call 'an irritated wrist'. You wring a cloth out, and damn, it just doesn't feel right, not painful, just not quite right. It felt like it needed a minor tweak, an adjustment, to get things aligned, and all would be well.
So, one afternoon, when I was fed up with it, I tried to tweak it a bit. A little pull here, a little twist there, nothing violent at all, just hoping it would all snap into place and feel good again.
That night, I woke around 3 am feeling like someone was trying to saw my hand off. Like I'd snapped a bone, and my manipulations had trapped a major nerve between the jagged bone fragments. Forget about sleep, I was pacing my apartment, cradling the wounded appendage and wondering just what the actual F had happened to it.
I'd seen wrist braces on grocery cashiers in the past, watched them moving little cans across the scanner, thinking 'pfft, come ON, you'll have to try harder that THAT for some compo….'
I wore a brace for 4 months, and even the vibrations from DRIVING were utter misery, so rather than slagging Petterson for looking 'placid, uncaring', understand that he's being medicated to the legally permitted hilt to even be functional, let alone perform at his best.
High end sports, with THAT!? Yeah, no thanks. Hope he comes back to form next season, and the Canucks can FINALLY bring home that elusive cup.
Yes I'm willing to give Petey and the team some slack on how this went. But even in that case it's not a great sign that some tendonitis can thwart your superstar player. We see time and again all of the greats playing through truly horrible injuries and somehow finding a way to produce. Because they're a cut above the rest and can adapt. If Petey had better puck protection skills, or even was just harder to push over it wouldn't be such an issue. Lots to work on, and that's on him.