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Eriksson is over-rated as fuck, he single handedly created more memes than points for the canucks in his 4 years.
I think people just acknowledge he's grossly overpaid and meme to cope with the fact he brings $1M performance on a $6M cap hit. Kinda like Gomez was for the Habs at one point. Shitting on him just got old.
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Myers is under-rated as fuck, he gets a lot of un-needed flack based on his past performance cuz of the media talking mad shit about his contract before he played a game for the canucks.
He led the team in TOI against elite competition last season, played with Edler, Hughes, Benn, and Fatenberg throughout the season. Hughes actually benefits the most playing with him, making him so much better than he was, but was held back by tanev cuz Green needed to balance the pairings and tanev wasn't as effective with anyone else. He made everyone on the team play better when he's on the ice, excluding the 4th liners.
idk, Myers is frustrating to watch because even when he's playing well he still makes a lot of clumsy plays. A lot like Edler actually, but he's not old lol. He's decent enough as a middle TOI defenseman but because of our lack of size he often has to bite off more than he can chew, but he's paid like he can be a workhorse in all situations. Which raises expectations, maybe unfairly towards his actual skill level but commiserate with how much he gets paid.
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Beagle is a 4C not a fucking 2C. I dont expect him to put up ton of points, nor outspeed everybody at his age. He was literally brought into do three things. Provide leadership to the young core, faceoffs, and PK. He nailed all those 3 jobs, if not exceeded them.
He is deployed more like a 3C because he heavily shelters Gaudette, and there's no 3C on the team that is ready yet. Imagine if the Canucks had an actual 3C like Cirelli, Beagle wouldn't get outplayed as much since he will go against other 4C's rather than spending 80% of the time in the dZone against players a lot better than him 100% of the time, and he still clutches it out. He would school other 4c like dowd, glendening and other random 4c's you never hear about, let alone old washed up players similar to his age cuz they aren't relied to play the hard minutes but chill playing against other 4c and cruise doing jack all while ur stars rest
well, that's the recurring problem with how the Canucks roster has been built - overpaying in UFA means a lack of depth and a need for the overpaid vets to play above their real worth. You're right that if say, Gaudette and Virtanen could be relied on then Beagle could be better used, but contracts like his is why we can't have a well-rounded lineup to begin with. The media is super nice towards him imo, and fair enough in the sense that he's seems like a leader and trying to play to the role he's ascribed. But he's simply asked to do too much, and so we see him, Sutter and Motte permanently pinned in their own zone even when Beagle wins the draw.
/e ops my bit about Pearson disappeared. Anyways I think he's "rated" as a middle 6 winger - he disappears occasionally but he's generally out there fighting for the puck and throwing it to the net. Not very high IQ but competing even when he's not doing well. Media only remembers he exists when he scores which sounds about what you want from him - don't be a liability if you aren't scoring.
This post was edited by Hizkuntza on Oct 15 2020 06:10pm