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John Matisz

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
155 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And obviously it takes some time to institute that, to see some real success.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

Like you start that, you have some growing pains right away.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And it takes a while to get that snowball rolling if they get buy-in from certain players.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

But that's clearly happened here.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And the roster that Danny Breer has assembled for them, it's lacking in firepower.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

I mean, they don't even have a 30-goal scorer.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

They don't have a guy over 70 points.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

Like, they are truly a defensive team.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

So there's been that coupled with last year they had atrocious goaltending.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And this year it's been at least solid.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

So...

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

I don't know.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

I look at what Rick Talk has done there, and I don't think it comes to the level of Dan Muse in Pittsburgh or even John Cooper in Tampa Bay.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

I think that he would be in some sort of second tier or third tier in terms of the Jack Adams.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

I don't vote on it.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

I don't put a ton of thought into it day to day.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

But if I think about a coach's impact, yes, has he been โ€“

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

a huge contributor to what Philly's been doing, yes.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

But I wouldn't say the end result is overly exciting, overly impressive.

Canucks Central
Looking Ahead to the Draft and the Stanley Cup Playoffs

And, you know, part of that is roster construction.