Funny you guys are making fun of the Oil. Canucks also fired their coach and GM this year. Are in a worse place in the standings. No first round picks the last two years. Also lost a few second and third round picks along the way. Signed Holtby for a year only to buy him out the next year. Signed Virtanen, then buy him out a year later. They traded for a top six forward when they also needed some defensemen themselves. On a given night this year, half their blue line consists of Kyle Burroughs, Luke Schenn, Brad Hunt, or some other AHL crap. OEL is here with a full NMC for the next 5 years at 7.3 m. Petterson has almost completely disappeared. Unfortunately for VAN, this is likely as good as it gets.