Daniel Sedin taken to Vancouver General hospital and was reported to be in stable condition and 'moving some extremities'.

The lack of respect of young players for star players in this league is something to behold.....

Hang on. Forget the star players -- it's the simple respect of players for fellow players that has vanished from this game.

Well that really isn't Byron's game at all. Very few PIMs and he doesn't weight 160lbs. He just had a brain fart and it became limb threatening. Unfortunate but with human fallibility and kinetic energy it'll never be perfectly safe.

No but he saw numbers and wasn't going in to steal the puck. He knew who he was hitting and was in control of what he was doing. Scary play all around and yes, a brain fart would be an understatement.

Team 1040 reports that some of the things Hartley was saying when Daniel went down were pretty disrespectful. No specifics mentioned.

Hartley starts his 4th line again tonight - unbelievable.

Torts calls him 'bush league'. "I don't like the way he does business. I don't like him or his disrespect for players" Round and round the merry go round we go.

No but he saw numbers and wasn't going in to steal the puck. He knew who he was hitting and was in control of what he was doing. Scary play all around and yes, a brain fart would be an understatement.

Going to miss Torts post game scrum. Like the candor he brought this year and glad he dropped the confrontation he was known for in NY. I actually wouldn't mind having him back again next year. I want a coach that pays attention to advanced stats which he most definitely doesn't but I'm hoping for a tank/rebuild year next year and he'd be an entertaining fella to keep around for that type of year.

And the whole starting of the 4th once again just makes me think Hartely is pure asshat.

Jason Brough ‏@JasonPHT 14 min
According to @garymasonglobe, Torts wanted Canucks ownership to buy out Burrows.

Holy fuck, I'm reading off Botchford's Twitter that not only did Torts not talk at all to the Utica Comets head coach, he didn't attend gameday skates and only started doing so when Gillis forced him to!?

based on the year Burrows had, I can understand why, but looking at the single period of play would be myopic. If Torts understood advanced stats he'd know his year was a incredibly extreme outlier of bad luck for Burrows.

Quite frankly if they bought him out the fan base would be in revolt, he is one of, if not the most popular player on the team. So many people identify with his story of not being drafted, fighting through the ECHL to become a 30 goal scorer and being woefully underpaid for years until his most recent contract. And the Rangers would grab him in a minute. Lui, Wiese man if they had kept Torts his path of destruction could have ended up comparing to the Keenan years.

Sigh...

I need a new avatar...

Damn you torts and your silly losing ways.... dont practice the power play? really???

Crap, Benning/Linden presser today. Seems they are both on board that this team can be quickly turned around and are not interested in a rebuild. Damn, their possession last year indicates that this is reasonably possible, but its still an aging team with a shot at the playoffs but no shot at the cup. I'm afraid they're going to be just avoiding the inevitable, their core is getting older, will have even less trade value and when rebuild time comes it will take a lot longer.