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sampy last won the day on July 30 2011

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  1. Haha you’re right. Though last season Canucks were still hoping to be competitive, this year it is expected.
  2. Well hopefully Louie likes Utica. NY being one of the Covid hubs, riding the bus, no 1st class lifestyle, it’ll be the first times he’s done something for his contract. If he’s not in Utica and there are fans in the stands he will be booed. The fans patience is done. It was fine when the Canucks weren’t good and he was just taking a spot and not costing anything. But now the Canucks are losing out on signing their own free agents and others because of this anchor. He will be booed mercifully.
  3. I think you’re forgetting about $58 million. That’s a lot of money OEL need to be paid out. Not the same at all.
  4. A tad rich for Beagle and Rouss?? They couldn’t trade those contracts if they wanted too. How about Myers, Ferland and Benn? That’s almost $18 millions on depth players. You could even add Baertschi, Spooner and Sutter to Benning signings. I like Benning, he’s done great at the draft, which Canucks haven’t been good at in 50 years, but they are in cap trouble because of him, NOT Linden.
  5. Nope. Part of the reason Linden quit was because the Aquilini’s were trying to avoid a rebuild. If you disagree, just look at all money Benning has spent on crap UFA’s since Linden has left. Sure would be nice to have a bunch of cap room to go with our elc’s right now.
  6. But he’s not so.....what are you talking about?!? In fact, he was just name one of the top 50 players in the NHL. A 1st and 3rd seems quite cheap in retrospect. What are the chances Canucks draft a player that would be in the top 100 with that mid-1st? How is this trade even debatable now with how well Miller has done?
  7. Messier had the luxury of playing on stacked teams his whole career. Vancouver was his first non stacked team that he was depended on to carry a team and we all know how that went. The amount of dirty hits and elbows he laid was cowardly. But you’re right, I’d take him on my team anyday, just like Marchand and Kesler. Their compete level is through the roof. Messier was a great player but he isn’t among the greatest, he’s not top 15-20 all time.
  8. He’s not even top 20. He’s 30th in points per game and ranked 105th in goals per game. He scored a lot of his points playing against terrible 2nd pair defenses while every team focused on Gretzky. He would do cheap $&!# constantly and never answer for it. He was a 1980’s Marchand, good (not great) player but a coward who made his teammates fight his battles.
  9. Nitpicking hahahaha, he made $6mil to be ok at PK. That’s not nitpicking that’s stating the obvious. Also, Beagle and Motte were the teams lead penalty killers. Check your stats again.
  10. Well considering most coaches want players to block shots and players are adding equipment so they get hurt less I strongly disagree. And Canucks were good on PK because of players like Markstrom and Edler and his league leading blocked shots
  11. Blocked shots is a useless stat?? Nope. A defensive minded player and one that plays PK tends to block shots. His takeaways wasn’t very good either, behind Motte and Leivo.
  12. Nope. LE was 15th on the team in blocked shots last year, behind Virtanen and only a few blocked shots ahead of offensive minded Boeser. While also being -11. Defensive minded hahaha. He’s not good anymore, yes he’s human and deserves to be treated with respect but no he does not deserve or should be gifted a roster spot. If he wants those last couple million he can do it in Utica. This is a performance business, spots are earned not given.
  13. The trade save an extra million off the cap and more importantly 1 less year. Big yes to this deal.
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