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  1. would have liked to see what JB could do in a good draft with lots of picks, from the sound of the town hall meeting - burrows, hansen and maybe a few others could be moved at the draft, Hansen may get you a first??? Burrows with retained salary maybe a second??? right now all the picks from 2015 draft look pretty good Boeser >>>>brisebois>olson>neil>gaudette>zhukenov>jasek
  2. I agree. you can't please everyone. If we had nylander - everyone would be losing it on how "soft" he is because he keeps getting injured. plus if we had nylander, people would say that our prospect pool is too "soft" with shinker, beartschi and nylander. I like what virtanen brings, but he has issues a lot of young players have - consistency, timing, etc.. I am happy we drafted him. What we really need is to commit to an actual rebuild - i am not sayng trade everyone - I would keep sedins and sutter, dorsette, hamhuis, prust. But I would trade vrabata, edler, and burrows and waive higgins.
  3. Would NSH go for: to NSH hamhuis vrbata Jensen van 2016 1st to VAN seth jones NSH 2016 1st
  4. If WD thinks that all he needs to do to keep his job is to scrape this team into the playoffs just to get out coached and lose in the first round then he is dead wrong. As this year goes on we could see gaunce and shinker and maybe pedan get call ups. That means he could be looking at at 5-7 rookies in the lineup at once. Next year I think is a contract year for him and we certainly will have more youth in the lineup then so if he can't handle young guys he is gone.
  5. Higgins, vrabata, Hamhuis 100% need to be gone by the trade deadlibe hamhuis - late first vrabata - 2nd, 3rd maybe just a late first depending on season higgins - 3rd that would give us 8 picks in the first 3 rounds (includes the 2nd for 3rd swap we are doing with PIT. If CBJ makes the playoffs I bet they give us their 2nd but I doubt they make it) imagine what JB can do with 8 picks in 3 rounds
  6. if only we drafted Severson over mallet, theadore over shink, Kopitar over Bourdon, oh wait that was nonis...
  7. I would do that trade but TO would have to retain and I would add sweetener on out end- Jensen and Corrado To VAN Phaneuf (1.5 mill retained) 2016 2nd To TO Higgins Sbisa Vey Corrado Jensen
  8. This regime talks about integrating youth and they are at risk of being all talk Beartschi Virtanen Gaunce McCann Hutton Should all be on the opening night roster Mcann has certainly outplayed virtanen, beartschi and pretty much every vet except Horvat and maybe vrbata Weber and vey have been absolute plugs Sedin Sedin virtanen Beartschi Horvat Vrbata Gaunce Sutter burrows Prust Mcann Dorsett Kenins, vey Virtanen gets 9 games to prove himself and if it's close I say we keep him Edler Tanev Hamhuis Bartowski Hutton Sbisa Corrado Goodbye Higgins, weber
  9. In the early 2000s Our d was: Jovo Ohlund Salo Allen Sopel Malik I was always perplexed as to why our d corps wasn't one of the best in the league
  10. If love to see: Sedin Sedin Virtanen Beartschi Sutter Vrbata Burrows Horvat Hansen Prust Cassels Dorsett
  11. Amazingly redic post from 2008 Just had to repost. I'd trade Higgins and Hansen before burrows guy does it all, pk, scores, leads, loves the Canucks. Still can play on the 1st line or anywhere in the lineup either wing
  12. Wouldn't that be unreal ! It would be nice if for once a group of our prospects over achieved. I am still pretty concerned with JBs plan to try to do two things at once (get good prospects and make the playoffs atcthe same time) because the last thing we want is for Bo to be 27 and not really have any good players to play with.
  13. Mackinnon had a 63 point rookie year, has already 2 yrs in the NHL and he was over a point per game in the playoffs as an nhl rookie He had what may be a sophomore slump I love having Horvat bc I believe defense wins championships but I would say in a re draft in average Mack goes ahead of Horvat but not no 1 Jones Monohan Mackinnon Barkov Horvat /Rasmus/ lindholm - all are equally interesting picks at 5 spot, with Horvat getting the edge imo That's legit fair
  14. Why doesn't guy just come for preseason? Show us what he's got and if it looks like he is nhl calibre-ish that will only drive up his value to the KHL teams Seems like a no brainer unless his contract doesn't permit nhl preseason
  15. I really would like to see virtanen with the twins- probably will happen in preseason. If Virt can do it would love: Sedin Sedin Virtanen Beart. Sutter Vrabata Burrows Horvat Hansen Prust Vey Dorsett Or at least virtanen 4RW, Dorsett 3LW, burrows 1RW
  16. Glad we didn't take Roy. The lineup shows that we are accumulating depth like we have never seen before. We are lacking some truly high end talent however! Perhaps we get that this year when we trade vrabata and Hamhuis at the deadline for firsts and then finish bottom 10 ourselves
  17. I mean his WJC wasn't awesome but if you are being honest about your credentials than you know a whole lot more than I do
  18. Beartschi Horvat Virtanen Shinkaruk McCann Boeser Gaunce Cassels Fox? Kenins Vey Labate ? --- Tanev Corrado Clendening Hutton Subban Tryamkin Brisebois Markstrom Demko Guys like Jensen, Grenier, Jasek, Zhuke - hard to say where they will fit in. We certainly have depth, but lacking high end skill- thatviscehy we need to package vets - vrabata, hammer, Edler, to get some high picks What happened to fox? He's not on the development camp roster is that bc he is already pro in echl?
  19. This is great news for sure! I hope Jasek comes over next year! Are both likely to make their WJC teams? A few questions about scouting 1. Why do we not even know who all these scouts are? 2. Why is the scouting heirarchy so secret in our organization ? 3. When a player is picked how come we rarely know which scout identified and advocated for him ( who to blame vs who to reward) 4. I hope teams keep a database of the players they thought were good and bad so 10 yrs down the line they can see where they were right and wrong thereby better identifying the hood scouts vs bad 5. Why do we rarely hear why a player was deemed bPA vs others aside from the just listing a bunch of adjectives - they never go into how they decided boeser was bPA over juulsen or harkins. We also rarely hear how a player was first identified ex: did JB see brisebois and Jasek at Ivan Hlinka for the first time or did he know about them before? Anyone with any insights?
  20. Not with the wing but coach who is there.
  21. If you watched the playoffs or maybe you didn't watch but read the paper relying on the opinion of others or maybe you can't read letters but instead just looked at the stat line you would be convinced Horvat is better than Bonino. Bonino said himself he feels like more of a 3C and they he is not comfortable being relied upon to put up big numbers
  22. I wish we had 2 jake virtanens - actually if Kass gets his junk together than we just might
  23. Ehlers Beartschi Shinkaruk Mcann - not exactly big guys- infact guys that would get pushed around. But with virtanen - if we can pick up Kane or Lucic or Ladd then... Baertschi Horvat Ladd Kane Bonino virtanen Shinkaruk McCann Kassian Gaunce Cassels Grenier Drooool
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