Yeah, my brother-in-law said that and the coach gets a 5 game one as well.

Posted by paul71 on 1/7/2012 12:03:00 PM (view original):
Or you could say Schneider is given a chance to play in front of his home town.

Paul nailed this.  Schneider got the start because it was in front of his home town.

Gary Valk talked about this after Canucks last home game.  Valk mentioned Schneder as a role player and said once in a while you need to throw the role player a bone to remind the role player how important their role is with the team.

Luongo was in a no win situation....Canuck's win everyone says Regular season wins don't matter?  Luongo loses in Boston, everyone says Luongo can't win the big games?  Coachs choice to start Schneider was perfect.........Canucks won.

Side note:Marchand is a repeat offender so I predict a 7 to 10 game suspention.  Lucic leaving the bench was kind of grey.........He better get 2 games, or randles conspiracy theory about Colin Campbell is starting to look obvious.

I think you guys are forgetting that there were 7 Canucks on the ice for that melee.  So which 2 Canucks are getting the automatic 10 game suspension as well?

I guess which ever left the bench holer. Did someone come off the bench or was the player already out there? The Bruins are the NHL darlings so I don't expect much to happen. Lucic and Shanny are sleeping in the same bed and Marchant is jacking them both off. Wish I could have seen the game. Doesn't make up for the fact they lost the cup last season but  I'm sure the players were happy.

I think the fact that there were 7 Canucks on the ice and Lucic was in the process of changing lines also led to the dismissal of any suspension.  Maybe I should refer you back to an entry I made several years ago now in which I cited a National Post article (Toronto newspaper of course) from the mid-1990's where the St. Louis Blues brass had made a complaint to the league where they believed Toronto was receiving preferential treatment from the league officials because St. Louis was one of only 2 teams in the league to have less power play opportunities at home than the opposition, while Toronto was leading the league in pp for and pp against differential.  What wasn't divulged in the article until a further investigation into it by the Calgary Herald (in a later article) was that the other team with a *minus* PP for/against differential at home was Calgary and the numbers were such that St. Louis was only a minus 2, whereas Calgary was a whopping minus 120.  Other than my efforts to make a point in here every so often, I have never heard Calgary fans complain about this fact even though it was exposed quite thoroughly in the Calgary media (and I believe in other cities around North America)

My point being, Calgary fans have never used this excuse to explain away their team's failings even though they had obvious means to do so.  The team that did use this dubious statistic to point a finger at "unfair officiating", had only a marginal case at best.  Maybe those Vancouver fans that think there is some sort of conspiracy against their team should take a look at this same statistical category for their team and see how it stacks up against the numbers I have just presented here and see if you still think you have a legitimate claim for being unjustly discriminated against by the league officiating.

Marchand gets 5.......The hearing was done over the phone and the maximum games a player can receive is 5 over the phone.  Face to face meetings players can receive more games.  See if Lucic get's anything?  Lucic may get nothing and if so I do not have a problem with that because his situation was grey at best, there was a lot of confusion during the maylay on the ice, I give Lucic the benefit of doubt????

I am happy Marchand got 5.  If he wants to keep playing like a turd, I hope the next will be 10.

DUCKING THE BLACKHAWKS!  

No worries, he will be back in net on Saturday vs the Dive.

SAVE LUO FOR THE BETTER TEAM--THE WINGS

SMART COACHING

We'll see I guess. That''s why they play the games.

thank god this game is in vancouver. The hawks have the most annoying song when they score a goal at the uc.

I  like watching this game on the Chicago channel WGN the announcers are not Biased towards the Hawks ..they call a good game

 Great game by our #1 goalie tonite