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mostly due to what Forbes is most concerned about...money....the cost of living is quite low and salaries are good. its easy to live there.... if you like shoveling snow 6 months out of the year, blizzard like weather for 3 months out of the year, and the rest of the year is like spring in BC, cloudy and raining with some sun here and there. the people are good though.

I've lived in the US most my life now. PITT is not where I'd want to be. I'd go for money reasons but if I had a choice between VAN and PIT, VAN wins in every category. Better summers, believe it or not better winters, better people, a lot prettier, more stuff to do. VAN is a lot more expensive but with his salary being in the millions I doubt he's too concerned.

thank you. I don't pay much attention to dreger. Most media outlets seemed to have the same consensus that "pit is more appealing than van" I don't know where this came from. You get Malkin and Crosby, and a big stew of mess that is whatever is going on in that locker room. Given the teams playoff performance and all the drama around the GM and coach before they got fired, they make the Canucks look like the Waltons. Things do not look good in Pit. After TL and Benning were hired we have excitement and hope. Being a Canadian team is a double edged sword, a lot of coaches dream of coaching a Canadian team, it is a personal goal. It is also a tough market that probably ages you in dog years. Moral of the story is, we're a Canadian team with TL and JB at the helm, and more than capable of soon becoming a championship team. Why would the Penguins who have even worse draft results, less prospects and depth, a fouled up locker room and an overall organization that is in shambles be the more appealing choice for a head coach? I might be biased but I see us contending before the penguins do again.

what did dreger say that's got everyone telling him to eat it? I must have missed it

AV surely wasn't the sole reason. if he was last season under torts wouldn't have been as bad as it was. having said that, coaches have shelf lives and AV had come to the end of his. he is a great coach, obviously, but he needed a new room and new faces as much as the canucks need a new face and voice to lead them.

Virtanen has moved past him on the latest rankings

based on what? great analysis you've made there. this whole "only the 1st overall" is NHL ready presumption on CDC is ridiculous. anyone in the top 5 could break in to the NHL and have great success, in a deeper draft i'd say the top 10. we have a great chance of getting a top 5 player falling to us and seeing him in our line up.

what? relating them by calling them by initials? not sure I follow.

As much as I'd like to see Virtanen drafted, if Burke gets him at 4th and someone in the top 5 drops to us I'll be much happier.

The FA market is seriously sad right now. I'd rather sign Santo, than pick up some 30+ year old has been. need to get younger and faster!

Edler isn't normally one of the worst but he was last year, and at 5 mil, id take a rookie with some speed and les cap hit. Edler was signed after a really good year for him and if he kept those numers he'd be worth it. I hope we trade him or he gets back to the top of his game.

Boston fans are funny because unless they're old time hockey fans in excess of 40 years old they don't know crap about hockey. They scream the second they get a penalty as if Boston plays a perfect game every night and cry for a penalty the second the other team hits one of their players as if were playing some 2 hand touch type of hockey. As for Toronto fans, I don't know, never met one.

rumour has it i was along the lines of "im going to fuckin kill you next season" if this is true i hope some serious repercussion comes his way(it wont, he plays for boston angels") either way, I've always loved the handshake tradition, not just for the respect and sportsmanship it displays but it shows that even though it was a bitter rival and heated series, respect is given to both teams by both teams at the end ofit all. It also leaves great impression upon the young fans of the sport. What other sport displays such sportsmanship, class, and respect to the kids watching on a ritual basis like the handshake tradition of the NHL? The handshake line teaches the young impressionable kids that no matter how upset you may be no matter how much you hate the other guy, you suck it up, give him what he deserves/earned, and move on. I have lived in the states a majority of my life now and have grown up watching the great chicago bulls in their MJ dynasty days and many of the great NFL teams over the last 2 decades, there is no sport popular in north america that has better role models than the NHL. What Lucic allegedly did is the bottom of the barrel scum, most classless act someone can do, I expect better even out of Boston. I only say alleged because its unkown what he really said, he has admitted to saying something though.

Just read some news that he is in Washington interviewing for their vacant coaching position. He coached their minor league team obviously way back so this could definitely be incentive to return to the organization. You guys think they pose a threat? I hope TL and JB get together quick and hire him, obviously thats if they agree on hiring him. They of course know hockey and coaching more than me so I think their decision will be good even if it isnt him but I hope if he's truly on top the list we act fast and get him under contract.

that last story with him gettig emotional about brings a tear to my eye. what a classy incredible man, vancouver would be damn lucky to have this man behind the bench. players coach for sure, would if nothing else, have great positive impact on our youth. man i hope even more now that we get this guy.

Him being spoiled and having a bad attitude and the coach benching him are not two different stories, they go hand in hand. People wanted AV gone long ago simply because he played favourites and let some players make multiple mistakes and stay on the ice while others were solely responsible for their own -10 +/- stat but got all the ice time they could handle. Trotz sitting a guy with a crap for brains attitude just shows he holds players accountable, and wont play favorites no matter who you are. which is a good thing, and exactly what the Canucks need.

probably the lawyers. legal jargon and contract fine print.

The fact that you state you would love to have Gretzky as a coach sums it up. luckily I saw and read that part first so I didn't waste time reading anything else you had to stay.

Look at what Trotz has been given and what hes done in a low income market. Given a much larger richer market and a team like the Canucks hes perfect for the job. We had to go thru them in 2011 and although they werent a worrying threat, look where he got with what he had. Like the man said himself he had a top 5 offensive team when they had the players for it (P. Kariya days). He's more than shown an ability to adapt to make the team the best it can be for the players he's given. Even if he brings a more defensive stye, which I dont believe he will do it'll be good to finally have a defence capable of shutting down teams, and with his ability to adapt he's proven he's more than capable of getting offence out of players who are strictly offensive players, you know, like the Sedins. He's multi faceted and proven an ability to bring the best out of whatever syle team he's given. Unlike Torts who cares about nothing but shot blocking and defensive play and has proven an inability to adapt and only an ability to force a team to adapt to his style. He has a ton of experience, however, stats may be misleading as his entire tenure is with one expansion team in a smaller market. This team needs a coach like Trotz that can bring out the best in every player from the Sedins to Sestito to Edler.

that is a sad case but with the canucks out of it and never in it, what else do we have...now if the canucks advanced and people were happier about boston not....that would be sad.

i'd have to agree. as much as I like torts the media BS would follow him and be as much a distracton as the lu v. schneids situation. the likelihood of any coach coming in and getting us a cup next year is slim. I really think the no NHL experience thing isn't a big issue. If he comes in next year, gets in to the system and learns as he gets his rookie coaching year out of the way. then maybe the '14-'15 season were looking at a cup barring player movements and what not.

not sure why we haven't hired someone. not like any of the coaches still in the playoffs are valid candidates...Blysma if he gets fired but he most likely wont despite the sweep(If that even happens) and if he did who knows if he'd want to come to van? plus, if he gets swept with his current roster what makes him an upgrade to AV? more offensive minded hockey a bunch of goons can push around and beat...seen that before. if anything from the pens I want it'd be their GM, not including players that is. idk about you guys but this pens/bruins series is reminding me of our series vs. them. most people seem to think torts will wont be good here. I think he's just what we need. especially with our negative media that dogs on our own team more than our opponents do. torts is the kind of guy that will make our dumb ass media outlets eat their words the first time they say something stupid or critique a player unfairly. I mean two weeks ago he told them to "kiss his ass". as far as player relationships go hell start fresh, and if he learned from some mistakes in NY I doubt our players will hate him like they did in NY. not to mention, NY's roster is a bunch of whiners IMO, who knows how bad things really were.