DrJockitch

So was the plan to hire Fabre why they shut this down?

That is what liked best about CDC was it was a very easy access to Canucks news but also usually beat many professional outlets to report NHL news. I mostly stayed out of live GDT and only jockingly (intended) posted in trade proposal threads because it does take on some of the inherent toxicity of social media, even in it’s juvenile form. I did like that it was predominantly Canadian which is where Reddit often loses me. I can certainly understand why the Canucks want to close this board. The unavoidable nature of the political talk is probably something best not to have on their IT, Security and Legal departments lists of concerns.

Really wasn’t looking to debate CFF. May go back at some point or just creep on there because it is still best site for getting info quickly. Was wondering if anyone has tried other sites. HF Boards is a nightmare, CanucksCorner looks fairly dead, hockeyforums.net looks long dead.

I don’t want to start pointing fingers or blaming. Just was looking for a new home for Canuck talk.

Nope, basically got told that wasn’t entitled to formulate an opinion on the current or past play of the team if it was anything other than positive. ‘When a mod tells me that I really didn’t see any reason to stay.

Yeah, it is complicated by the fact that I eschew all social media otherwise finding the right community would be probably be easier. Appreciate the comment. Seems ludicrous that you get targeted for constructive criticism but that is the reactive world we live in.

Left CFF because of overly aggressive mods. Any other reasonably moderated fan forums?

Don’t know but still one or the other.

Myers hurting a tank? He is the tank commander.

I don’t think Hronek is signing for $4.5M.

I am not sure we can afford another high end top 4 D. Pettey is going to get paid big time and we will need to pay Hronek. OEL penalty kicks in 2 years for a couple more years before becoming manageable. There is a reason we only signed one player for more than 2 years this off-season. Our D would potentially be one of the better setups in the league with good size and puck moving with him but this is a pipe dream. Though never say never with trader Jim around.

Now you want to know my point when you first told me I wasn't entitled to posting my opinion. My opinion as stated in this post and the last one about Podz is what I stated. Pro athletes don't deserve pats on the head for showing up in shape and that is what all these articles are. These are just fluff as most everything in the Province is. Here is the thing, you don't need to read or post to my response just like you are saying to me. Why post anything if you don't want to see an opinion contrary to yours. I don't think Studnicka is close to making this team in shape or not. As you noted there is a glut of wingers of varying quality but almost all better than what Studnicka has shown. He is a bottom 6 NHL/AHL tweener. I still don't think an athlete being fit is news especially if they don't ask the simple question of why in your prior years as a professional athlete did you decide to come into camp in something other than optimum shape, but that would be journalism not a silly puff piece.

Right back at ya.

How many of these articles do we need a year. So Brock, Kuz, Podz and Studnicka decided to get in shape this year. That is a professional athlete's obligation, why is this news. Well I hope Studnicka has a great year in Abby, glad he decided fitness was important for a professional athlete. Fit or not he isn't in the top 15 forwards.

I think Jack may be the most exciting player have seen since Bure (I always exclude McDavid from any discussions, he is an outlier). EP is the better overall player and the one would prefer to build around.

When you’re old like us you should know better than try to use new(ish) technology to bridge the gap with the current generation. It is like politicians rapping. Nobody enjoys it, it comes off as horribly inauthentic and uncomfortable. These guys grow up on social media with their phone in their hands all the time. We don’t even understand the language anymore. Babcock needed to try to be authentic with the players. Show them that he is a guy who grew up with hockey and has lived and breathed it at a high level his entire life. Social media has given a bad impression of him and he can’t win that war in that arena. I think this was genuinely an attempt to try to show his team that he is not everything he has been made out to be (though he is a lot of it) but was done clumsily. This is also blown out of proportion by Bisonette who really is just trying to take a shock jock approach to jacking up clicks and has a personal dislike of Babcock.

Podz reaching his potential is like a lab made winger for EP. If he comes in flying our lines fit together much better. Still don’t know how to fit all the wingers in. I said going into last year that our best chance for improvement was to see Podz improve. He had off year and so did we. We see these stories every year of this player coming in in best shape ever. This year alone we have Podz, Kuz and Brock all coming in in best shape ever. Professional athletes don’t deserve pats on the head for coming in in shape. That should be the expectation. How much money did you take before deciding to act like a professional? These guys have had trainers and dieticians since they were 10 if they didn’t know what to do before now that was arrogance and willful ignorance.

Funny that all the Canadian teams are so worried about keeping American players. Our Leadership group. C Quinn Hughes, JTM and Demko standing there all on relatively budget deals. Oh what a world when we are led by a group of Americans and a quickly developing group of Russians and still we, the f’n Vancouver Canucks, are worried about losing our Swedish superstar. The world is backwards since COVID.

I have adapted to using Xitter (think more sch- sound) and tweets as Xarts as it seems more appropriate.

Q is in Vancouver, why is Dylan Larkin there? Or did he fly home after press conference.

Looking at the lineups and prospect pools between us and the Devils, don't think it is the Devils that are more likely to fall apart.

I don't think anyone really believes this about his brothers, it is just fun conjecture. Man Jack is fun to watch though.

Oh the reactionary world of Xitter with all these dumb Xarts. People getting all excited about Babcock trying to stress a family approach by showing a few family pictures with permission of the player.

But why!? Really why would you even come up with this idea. Megalomaniacs are a weird group.

There are 4 teams in the league that can currently fit him under their cap without looking at LTIR. We would need to take back a contract or LTIR player from anyone else which would kind of defeat the purpose. Wouldn’t be surprised to see Mik miss preseason and be on IR for day 1 cap purposes. Rare we get of camp without an injury too. Worst deal PA has made was the one he made to get us under the cap last year. Hopefully better showing this year. He made a nice recovery though getting a decent asset for Stillman.