“Take the day off, boys,” he told them.
Then the coach went to work, scrutinizing video from Saturday’s 5-3 loss
to the Buffalo Sabres, just the second regulation defeat suffered by the
Canucks in their last 20 games.
Nonetheless, there is plenty about which to fret. More…
Shacks’ Take: If you read my stuff long enough you’ll realize I
try to look at things with a long view.
It was less than a month ago Byron Bitz scored 2 points in his second
game when fans were slotting him in as the new top 6 forward
we need. I wasn’t quite so quick to the
coronation on that one and I’m not ready to call Kassian the next Neely yet
either.
I like what I’ve seen so far from the big man and I definitely see a higher
ceiling for him than Bitz but I’ll reserve my judgment on his impact for this
season until he’s played 15 – 20 games in a Canuck jersey. It’ll take a couple more years at least to
try to estimate how good he will be.
It's Byron not Blair Bitz.
ReplyDeleteThanks, it was a very flu like day yesterday in the Shacks' house. Hope thats the only one I screwed up.
DeleteKICKASSIAN! The kids a first rounder for a reason. Yeah if you want to play it really safe you can wait 5 years to assess him. You never know he might be a bust but all signs and logic as I can see point to him being a force on this team for a long time.
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Kid's not going to be a bust but Steve Bernier and Taylor Pyatt both looked pretty good for a while. I like what I've seen but I liked what I saw out of Bitz and where is he now? If he keeps playing this way over an extended period I'll really get excited but I'm not ready to call him a star quite yet.
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