Typical Canucks nostalgia and revisionism. Typical because it's necessary: it's all we have. Such passionate fans, and zero success.
Being a fan of this team is painful. I don't care if we had a great run in 2011. It's 2013, and we need to think about the future.
Albert Einstein once wrote that insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Via this criteria, Gillis is clearly insane.
I've thought this for a while, and I hate to be the guy to call blow up, but this team needs to be dismantled. Keep the Sedins, but blow up the rest of it.
The idea of idling in mediocrity as a bubble team for the next few years makes me cringe. I'd rather be absolutely horrible, and wait patiently for the kind of renaissance that teams like Colorado are enjoying. The only way to get that is to get top 5 picks. The only way.
We are not Detroit. If I were Ken Holland, I'd be insulted to have Mike Gillis compared with me.