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34 minutes ago, 6string said:

This reads like the work of a brain dead Oiler or Flame fan. He did another piece a few weeks back reassembling parts of the 2011 team.

 

Clearly this person is in fear of the upcoming progress of the Canucks.

“ long time lurker” but joined a couple of days ago. Yeah, right.

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1 hour ago, captainhorvat said:

U know its summer when u get a thread like this

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Hey! You Shush it! If it wasn't for threads like these I'd literally have no reason to be on cdc. 

 

Keep'em coming people! We're almost through the offseason. :emot-parrot:

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If it's not Bo, its Petey. That kid was intense on the bench right from the get go last fall. He has captain written all over him. As much as Bo ever did, and definitely more at his age. Its just a letter, but that kid is one of the leaders already and no matter who gets the C, this team has quality character at those positions covered.

 

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18 minutes ago, debluvscanucks said:

You lost me here:

 

as I completely 100% disagree with this statement and wonder where you go the magical "see into the future" powers that you possess.  Long time lurker.

 

Besides, if Bo doesn't get it I'm pretty sure they're giving it to me.

They can't give it to you! You're all-time Captain of CDC! 

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26 minutes ago, debluvscanucks said:

You lost me here:

 

as I completely 100% disagree with this statement and wonder where you got the magical "see into the future" powers that you possess.  Long time lurker.

 

Besides, if Bo doesn't get it I'm pretty sure they're giving it to me.

Sorry Deb, no need to fight me for it.  Pencil's already hovering above paper

Alternate Captains: Tyler Motte and Alex Biega (nothing says team player and character like the perseverance behind being the 13th forward and 7th D!)

 

Btw did you all miss the newsflash that the team's changing names to Vancouver Benchwarmers? 

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2 hours ago, BrockBoester said:

Hello CDC!

 

Long time forum lurker here and I am really looking forward to the 50th anniversary season! Especially hyped for some sweet Petey dekes! So I decided to write up a little post here discussing a big upcoming role to be filled on our beloved hockey club.

The general consensus among our fanbase is that Mr. Horvat will be the next to step into the shoes of Canucks Captain, in the line of the greats like Trevor Linden, Markus Naslund, Roberto Luongo (lol) and whichever one of the Sedin bros that it was that was captain (you know as well as I do you can't tell them apart).

 

However, I think that Bo will ultimately plateau as a strong third line center as his potential seems very limited as far as skillset and it begs the question, do you put the C on the most talented player (Pettersson) instead? Or do you not want an extremely young alien leading the hockey club?

 

I was actually mulling over some uncommon choices and I figured I would present my take to you fine folks out there in Canuck land so that we can decide who the captain should be and then send a petition to Benningsauce that he should name that player as the captain.

 

Scenario 1: The bridge captain - Alex Edler

Definitely regarded as our "veteran" on the backend along with Chris Tanev (Who obviously can't be named captain due to the likelihood that he plays 20 games or less), since Edler is only on a 2 year deal, we could kinda use him as a stopgap measure for the captaincy and then throw it on Petey or Boeser or Hughes (not Bo though please as like I said he is a great leader but has very limited hockey skills).

Scenario 2: Russian dictatorship - Tryamkin

WHEN the big Russian tree returns to glorious city of Vancouver, pinning a C to his sweater would definitely reaffirm to his fragile ego that he is a valuable asset to our team and community. Plus, I bet Goldobin and Podz would be fired up, and if you name both of them Alternate Captains then they could have a blast trash talking the refs in Russian and the league would never know the wiser (to punish us)

 

Scenario 3: Lighting a fire - Loui Eriksson

If there's any player in Vancouver that could use a bit of a vote of confidence, it's Mr. Eriksson. Once an elite goal scorer in a terrible city like Boston, he has become complacent in the beautiful city we live in. And after numerous months of being dragged through the mud by fans and media alike, wouldn't it be a huge surprise to see this stud named Captain and ultimate role model for our young Canucks. I could see him potting 40+ and winning Conn Smythe if we were to fasten the C to his sweater.

 

Scenario 4: Fin

As a fun joke, for the first game of the season of course, and then swerve the audience and award the C between the 3rd period and overtime to one of these candidates I've listed.

 

Scenario 5: Goalie gets the nod - Demko

I don't really agree with everyone around here that Luongo was a terrible choice for captain. Imagine how sweet Demko's lid would look with a big C on the side? Plus, he's American, so the refs and Gary Buttman wouldn't hate on us as much for being a Canadian team maybe? I know this is a long shot but I think Demko can definitely afford to handle the pressure and distractions of being the Cap.

Scenario 6: New Blood - Myers or Ferland

A defenseman that's like 8 feet tall would be an intimidating force as leader. Or Ferland the human wrecking ball who is definitely tougher than Lucic and will be steamrolling opponents left, right, and center this season and for many years to come. Can't go wrong naming beefy players like this to lead the team.

 

Scenario 7: Bench Captain - Travis Green

Green doesn't get enough respect around here and I think that this ultimate dark-horse choice would be great for a couple of reasons. Number one, he doesn't have to deal with the distraction of playing hockey and could focus his full attention and energy on arguing with the referees. Plus, if we named Loui as his assistant, they would probably be able to become friends again and the bond forged would be unstoppable, again in all probability propelling Loui to a 40+++ goal season and redeeming himself in the process to all the Canucks naysayers.

 

 

Let me know what you guys think down in the thread below and as always thank you for reading!

Bench Captain? Smoking some good s#$t i assume, are ya? Not one of your suggestions makes any sense at all. Theirs only one answer and thats Bo

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1 hour ago, 6string said:

This reads like the work of a brain dead Oiler or Flame fan. He did another piece a few weeks back reassembling parts of the 2011 team.

 

Clearly this person is in fear of the upcoming progress of the Canucks.

No I'm sorry this is my first forum post and I read all the new threads here every day but I decided I wanted to join the party for our 50th anniversary season.

I'm sorry about my harsh words about Bo in retrospect he definitely has a bit higher ceiling than 3rd line C but I really think that we should give a good solid look at some of the other options before we consider Mr. Horvat as the foregone conclusion. It's always good to have a bit of drama and excitement, and even a surprise or two in store for the future right?

1 hour ago, sonoman said:

“ long time lurker” but joined a couple of days ago. Yeah, right.

You don't need an account to read threads, just to post them. Sorry, I really wasn't trying to drum up negativity here, just presenting a few outside-the-box (or outside-the-rink?) options to mull over.

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2 minutes ago, BrockBoester said:

No I'm sorry this is my first forum post and I read all the new threads here every day but I decided I wanted to join the party for our 50th anniversary season.

I'm sorry about my harsh words about Bo in retrospect he definitely has a bit higher ceiling than 3rd line C but I really think that we should give a good solid look at some of the other options before we consider Mr. Horvat as the foregone conclusion. It's always good to have a bit of drama and excitement, and even a surprise or two in store for the future right?

 

 

You do know the other players, like Petey and Boeser, call Bo Cap, right?  

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1 minute ago, Alflives said:

You do know the other players, like Petey and Boeser, call Bo Cap, right?  

No I wasn't aware of that, perhaps it could be some sort of ironic inside joke?

 

Bo has great leadership skills I'm not questioning that at all, I'm just saying there are some more skilled/more truculent players that we could give the C to.

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Just now, BrockBoester said:

No I wasn't aware of that, perhaps it could be some sort of ironic inside joke?

 

Bo has great leadership skills I'm not questioning that at all, I'm just saying there are some more skilled/more truculent players that we could give the C to.

The young guys call Bo Cap, because he (to them) is their leader and Captain.  Bo will be the very first Vancouver Canuck to hoist the Stanley Cup while representing our city.  

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2 hours ago, BrockBoester said:

Hello CDC!

 

Long time forum lurker here and I am really looking forward to the 50th anniversary season! Especially hyped for some sweet Petey dekes! So I decided to write up a little post here discussing a big upcoming role to be filled on our beloved hockey club.

The general consensus among our fanbase is that Mr. Horvat will be the next to step into the shoes of Canucks Captain, in the line of the greats like Trevor Linden, Markus Naslund, Roberto Luongo (lol) and whichever one of the Sedin bros that it was that was captain (you know as well as I do you can't tell them apart).

 

However, I think that Bo will ultimately plateau as a strong third line center as his potential seems very limited as far as skillset and it begs the question, do you put the C on the most talented player (Pettersson) instead? Or do you not want an extremely young alien leading the hockey club?

 

I was actually mulling over some uncommon choices and I figured I would present my take to you fine folks out there in Canuck land so that we can decide who the captain should be and then send a petition to Benningsauce that he should name that player as the captain.

 

Scenario 1: The bridge captain - Alex Edler

Definitely regarded as our "veteran" on the backend along with Chris Tanev (Who obviously can't be named captain due to the likelihood that he plays 20 games or less), since Edler is only on a 2 year deal, we could kinda use him as a stopgap measure for the captaincy and then throw it on Petey or Boeser or Hughes (not Bo though please as like I said he is a great leader but has very limited hockey skills).

Scenario 2: Russian dictatorship - Tryamkin

WHEN the big Russian tree returns to glorious city of Vancouver, pinning a C to his sweater would definitely reaffirm to his fragile ego that he is a valuable asset to our team and community. Plus, I bet Goldobin and Podz would be fired up, and if you name both of them Alternate Captains then they could have a blast trash talking the refs in Russian and the league would never know the wiser (to punish us)

 

Scenario 3: Lighting a fire - Loui Eriksson

If there's any player in Vancouver that could use a bit of a vote of confidence, it's Mr. Eriksson. Once an elite goal scorer in a terrible city like Boston, he has become complacent in the beautiful city we live in. And after numerous months of being dragged through the mud by fans and media alike, wouldn't it be a huge surprise to see this stud named Captain and ultimate role model for our young Canucks. I could see him potting 40+ and winning Conn Smythe if we were to fasten the C to his sweater.

 

Scenario 4: Fin

As a fun joke, for the first game of the season of course, and then swerve the audience and award the C between the 3rd period and overtime to one of these candidates I've listed.

 

Scenario 5: Goalie gets the nod - Demko

I don't really agree with everyone around here that Luongo was a terrible choice for captain. Imagine how sweet Demko's lid would look with a big C on the side? Plus, he's American, so the refs and Gary Buttman wouldn't hate on us as much for being a Canadian team maybe? I know this is a long shot but I think Demko can definitely afford to handle the pressure and distractions of being the Cap.

Scenario 6: New Blood - Myers or Ferland

A defenseman that's like 8 feet tall would be an intimidating force as leader. Or Ferland the human wrecking ball who is definitely tougher than Lucic and will be steamrolling opponents left, right, and center this season and for many years to come. Can't go wrong naming beefy players like this to lead the team.

 

Scenario 7: Bench Captain - Travis Green

Green doesn't get enough respect around here and I think that this ultimate dark-horse choice would be great for a couple of reasons. Number one, he doesn't have to deal with the distraction of playing hockey and could focus his full attention and energy on arguing with the referees. Plus, if we named Loui as his assistant, they would probably be able to become friends again and the bond forged would be unstoppable, again in all probability propelling Loui to a 40+++ goal season and redeeming himself in the process to all the Canucks naysayers.

 

 

Let me know what you guys think down in the thread below and as always thank you for reading!

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1 hour ago, BrockBoester said:

No I'm sorry this is my first forum post and I read all the new threads here every day but I decided I wanted to join the party for our 50th anniversary season.

I'm sorry about my harsh words about Bo in retrospect he definitely has a bit higher ceiling than 3rd line C but I really think that we should give a good solid look at some of the other options before we consider Mr. Horvat as the foregone conclusion. It's always good to have a bit of drama and excitement, and even a surprise or two in store for the future right?

You don't need an account to read threads, just to post them. Sorry, I really wasn't trying to drum up negativity here, just presenting a few outside-the-box (or outside-the-rink?) options to mull over.

More like “outside-the-galaxy” options

Bo will be the next Canucks Captain.  He’s spent the last couple of seasons being groomed for this.

 

 

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