Mo Grit

Began watching this earlier, turned it off. Won't ever do so again. Do not like these smarmy guys. No reason after today's signings to adopt such f**kin' negativity.

I see this too Stawns, not just with Hirose, but especially with the FA signings today, allowing for a patient development under Colliton. Who seems to totally have his shit together. Canucks never, ever, had this before. Future is so bright.

Seems to me that by declaring OEL's buyout so early, Alvin clearly had a deal or two already up his sleeve. I doubt Aqua sanction it otherwise. Getting past the draft and then seeing which free agents we could sign today was essential before pulling the trigger on any trades - maybe Alvin already found what he wanted. But I'd bet that at least a couple of these previously agreed deals will be finalized soon: could be tomorrow if Alvin's targets look to be gaining other GM's interest. For sure, today's opportunities will evaporate during July. FWIW, Alvin grades an A from me for both drafting and FA day.

Wheew! Good use of a high pick.

We didn't need this Hobson's decision to make. Nerves are jangling..

Wood. Speed kills.

Nuck's org suddenly asks for a time out.

Is Benning in the building?

Shit!

We'll get that elusive 1st overall next draft.

Has to be on some kind of show-me gig while his severance pay runs out. DimJim gotta be getting close to a hiring too by now. Head of Scouting for Arizona is my guess.

We can only watch and hope that we've seen the end of signing terminally injured players. Flying by the seat of your pants might have worked had the pilot been anyone but Benning. Kraken making the play-offs and their Firebirds fighting to the Calder Cup finals in just 2 years from inception, might, just might have stung Aqua into accepting the real cost of professionally evaluating and nurturing of talent. Vegas already owning us into the forseeable future is bad enough, but submitting to Kraken's success so early on, is unforgivable. We got the summer to find enough character that'll relish a play-off fight, otherwise I suspect we implode by Christmas.

That'll not likely be Camilla then. The only penis on view tomorrow'll be wearing a crown.

Excellent!

Yowza!!!!

Hold on a minute..

"folks don't go anywhere" As if ...

Same with Silovs. He sounds like elastic man.

On my radio. First in a long time, but the playbyplay guy is great. You?

Exactly this. If there's one measure of lacking team commitment that can't be argued, its players arriving in camp way out of shape. Its the one discipline that could and should be rigidly enforced across the roster, regardless of talent or reputation. We've already endured 2 back-to-back such training camp disasters which forced play-offs out of our reach by November. Perhaps for the first time I can recall, we also have enough of our own talent, that we'll not be wasting valuable pre-season ice-time on glaringly obvious non-NHLers.

Perhaps, but different skills require intelligent coaching to understand the right buttons to press. Benching the most gifted, natural sniper Canucks ever seen because of his perceived 200-foot game shortcomings, seems so counter-productive, if not vindictive. 39 goals in his first taste of the NHL, despite a huge language/communication barrier? C'mon RT, where's your own accountability in denying Kuz enough ice-time to reach his remarkable 40-goal debut? And this, when the season's already been a bust for months. We've seen lots of this crap before though, always lazily lifted from old-school coaching manuals. You can't teach what Kuz has; nor unlearn it.

Like your comments VH, but I'm only betting against my own hunches. Come October I'll see how constantly poor my predictions always prove. Yet, I can't shake my conviction that Alvin is being leaned on to flip the assets he's pick up.

Yes, Jay I'm big on Kuz, his scoring for fun talent has turned him into a valuable trade asset. But Tocchet doesn't seem to appreciate him, and I can't see management resisting a decent offer, or including him in a deal to help off-load some of the cap.

from our last night's game 82 roster, I'm not expecting to see any of these guys in the opening line-up next year: Boeser Garland Dries McDonough Kuzmenko Studnicka Hirose Bear McWard Myers Delia Beauvillier For differing reasons, that's 12 players gotta go - some just to help to carry others out. But, does Alvin already have deal options-in-waiting from those intense TDL negotiations? He seems quite a canny operator. Once our lottery hopes are officially dead, will we trade our 1st pick for more NHL-ready help on our D, given that we appear to have cornered ourselves into a 'win-now' management time-frame?

Hope so Dev, because I don't see these games as meaningless. With rosters already too large, some guys have to go. I trust RT's making notes about who he wants alongside him in next year's trenches. Shame though, the guys who dug in tonight were who we'd expect. That's quite some bar they set in the 3rd. Need some depth guys like De Nero said, to show they can and want to it as bad. Are they getting enough ice time though, while Rick perhaps is padding his own stats.