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  1. 2019 NHL Draft at Vancouver. Benning and Linden walk to the stage, only for the Sedins to pop out from the back out of no where. To make the announcement who we draft.

    1. Where's Wellwood

      Where's Wellwood

      The Wahlgren Twins!

  2. Imagine how pissed off the NHL would be if Boeser won the Calder this year (long shot I know with his injury), we got Dahlin and he wins it in 2018 / 2019, and Pettersson wins it in 2019/2020

    1. apollo

      apollo

      The NHL won't be pissed off. The NHL controls the trophies, it wasn't going to the Ayatolla of Brock N Rolla...

       

      Also we won't get Dahlin... The Bowman's run the old boys club... they will likely win the lottery.

       

      We'll still form a dynasty in the 2020s though, and they'll try to hinder us... but they won't be able to because we'll be so great.

       

      Boeser > McDavid > Petterson > Seguin/Benn > Dahlin

       

      And who knows... Maybe Olli becomes a superstar too.

    2. Coconuts

      Coconuts

      Never change apollo, never change.

  3. What if Benning knew all along we were hosting the draft in 2019. We somehow win the draft this year and get Dahlin. He trades 1 or 2 of Edler/ Tanev/ Guddy for 1st rd picks for the 2019 draft year.

     

    We walk out with x pick in 2019 (assuming top 10). Bo Horvat walks out with a C on his Jersey, surprising fans, to give the #19 Jersey to our future selections.

     

    We take the floor 2 or 3 times in the first round draft at home. We walk out Day 1 as winners at home. The fans and media ofc will celebrate and some will hate but that week and the buzz in Van will be crazy.

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    2. PunjabiCanucks

      PunjabiCanucks

      because the dman i mentioned have trade value and our not a part of our organizations future 

    3. SedinMadness

      SedinMadness

      i like it... blow up the whole team just as the rangers did. only problem is i think the canucks have a crap reputation around the league and i believe vancity would get hosed... 

    4. PunjabiCanucks

      PunjabiCanucks

      I'm not saying all 3 leave.... but if we somehow get Dahlin/ Boqvist , Joulevi enters the NHL, and per say Tryamkin comes back. We can trade 1 or 2 of the 3.

  4. He has the speed, but he's being played never with good players. He is one of the fastest players on our team and yet it remains unused. We rushed him in when he wasn't ready, and now we don't give him the chance to play his game on the LW.
  5. Wonder if WPG may interested in Tanev coming to play w/ his brother. Big Buff and Enstrom are out i atm and they can make a serious push in the playoffs this year. Just some D depth to get a higher seed and help out Mason/  Hellebuyck in net.

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    2. soosoodeff

      soosoodeff

      Laine or no deal

    3. VanGnome

      VanGnome

      Tanev is worth more to the team in a trade for what he returns than what we get out of him during his prime while we are bad. I'd like to see Guddy, Tanev and Edler all shipped out at the deadline, sign John Carlson in UFA, see if Juolevi is ready to make the big club, Hopefully draft Dahlin.

      See if Demko steals a job out of camp. Our D core would be:

      Pouliot - Carlson
      Dahlin - Del Zotto
      Juolevi - Stecher

      That's a skilled, mobile defence. Add in Pettersson and Goldobin as full timer's a healthy Horvat, Baertschi, plus Boeser, Virtanen, Granlund that's a fast and skilled 7 of the top 9 forwards. If Dahlen can land a spot, Sutter rounds out that top 9. Re-sign the Sedins to 1 year 2.5M each and play them on the 4th line.

    4. Pears

      Pears

      If the package coming back is a minimum of Lowry, Petan and a 1st I’d do it. We shouldn’t be looking at moving Tanev unless we get a haul like that. 

  6. No Bo No Money #givevirtanenfirstlineminutes

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    2. J-23

      J-23

      I've wanted that as well.

    3. PunjabiCanucks

      PunjabiCanucks

      @J-23 Appearantly Baertschi's heading home to be re-evaluated. Not to  sound optimistic, this may be his chance

    4. J-23

      J-23

      Yup, I still want to see Virtanen - Horvat - Boeser by the end of the season. If Virt gets an oppprtunity on Boesers line and puts up some good numbers, I see him finishing the season on that 1st line with Bo and Boeser. Although he has been playing good with Gaunce.

       

      This is something I would want to end the season and hopefully going into the Playoffs with: 

       

      Virtanen - Horvat - Boeser

      Sedin - Sedin - Eriksson

      Baer - Granlund/Gaunce - Goldobin

      Gaunce/Gagner/Granlund -  Sutter - Vanek

  7. Kinda wish if Seattle gets an NHL team they will be called The Seattle Super Saiyans.

     

    Will help brand the NHL to Japanese and other Asian Markets as well

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    2. PunjabiCanucks

      PunjabiCanucks

      Ofc they would have to buy the copyrights to use that name and brand

    3. HerrDrFunk

      HerrDrFunk

      That's the dumbest name for a sports team since the Washington Redskins.

    4. Nuxfanabroad

      Nuxfanabroad

      The Seattle Bitter Blend

      The Seattle Drizzle

      ...Blended Brew

      ...Slave Labour

      ...Unhinged Protesters(SUP)

      ...Radiation!

       

      Anything's better than the Lost Vegan Rights

  8. Can Pettersson or Dahlen play for the Swedish Olympic team? Normally I would say they wont make it due to NHL talent, but are they even eligible? 

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    2. Quantum

      Quantum

      Doubt Dahlen makes it or is being considered seriously. Pettersson has a very good shot at being on the Olympic Team considering he's one of the best players in the SHL right now.

    3. PunjabiCanucks

      PunjabiCanucks

      Fair enough, thanks . Dahlen isnt doing too bad, he's scoring at a nice rate . Sucks he couldnt make top tier or get top minutes in the AHL.

    4. Baer.

      Baer.

      signing in the Allsvenskan allowed Dahlen to sign a short-term deal as the SHL does not permit shorter contracts.

  9. Great the sportsnet panel just jinxed a certain player

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    2. PunjabiCanucks

      PunjabiCanucks

      Yet we roasted the guy who created the status during the leafs game

    3. Jaku

      Jaku

      It counts. John Garrett thinks so.

    4. Brad Marchand

      Brad Marchand

      Perhaps all the reverse jinxing worked.

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    2. CRAZY_4_NAZZY

      CRAZY_4_NAZZY

      Maybe reunite that London Knights line? Domi-Dvorak-Marner?

    3. Pears

      Pears

      It would have to take more than Marner for them to consider moving OEL. 

    4. Alflives

      Alflives

      Marner plus Lilgegren plus this year's first?

  10. The way I see it, it should be a 32 team league. 16 make the playoffs, and 16 dont. Saskatchewan and Quebec can add a team in the future in Canada. Toronto shouldnt get a second team as the leafs are their history and they belong to be the GTA's team. Houston, Seattle, and Kansas are my 3 teams in the USA to get a team. Calgary stays where it is, there is lots of history there and the battle of alberta. Phoenix, Carolina, and Florida are the teams to be relocated to better areas.
  11. Me watching us slowly start to tank

     

  12. Word on three-way: Duchene to OTT, Turris to NASH and not exactly sure on COL. Ekholm’s name came up, but no certainty he was in final deal - As per Elliotte Freidman

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    2. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      As I said, way less than CDC thinks. ;)

       

    3. Green Building

      Green Building

      I miss the glory days of wild blockbuster trades, but with parity and the cap and so on and so on it only makes sense that we see fewer headline grabbers. The truth is that despite its many many many many flaws, the league has done well to create some balanced competition around the league. 

    4. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      Shhh...don't tell the media that. Sekeras was going off retweeting that Baseball has had 12 different teams win the world series since 2000, without a lockout or salary cap. Not mentioning the fact that since 2012 Fox and Turner sports signed 8 year deals worth $6.8 billion  = $850 million per season/ 30 teams = $28+ million per team per season. And there's 81 home games a year. (That's one less than a whole season in hockey)

       

      Comparing apples to oranges. 

       

       

       

  13. Imagine if the Canucks do get Dahlin to quarterback the pp , or Svechnikov with Pettersson and Dahlen
  14. Hayley Wickenheiser talks up skills of prospect Kole Lind If Kole Lind ever requires public relations help, he should hire Hayley Wickenheiser. Less than five minutes after a call was put into her agent asking if Wickenheiser would talk about fellow Shaunavon, Sask., product Lind, Canada’s greatest ever women’s hockey player was on the phone, raving about the 19-year-old Vancouver Canucks right wing prospect. Lind is making things miserable on opposing WHL goalies as a member of the Kelowna Rockets, with 22 points, including eight goals, in 12 games. Shaunavon is a farming community of about 1,800 in southwest Saskatchewan. Everybody knows everybody. It’s one of those places. Hockey people in particular know hockey people, and Lind’s dad Ashley, 41, recalls coming through the minor hockey ranks alongside Wickenheiser, 39, when they were both growing up in the area. His first vivid recollection of playing against her was when he was eight years old. Ashley and wife Marcia run a farm in nearby Admiral, Sask., and also head up one of the more prolific hockey families in the region currently. Kole’s sisters Tenelle, 16, and Taylor, 15, are key members of the Swift Current Wildcats, a squad in the Saskatchewan female triple-A midget league. Youngest sibling Kalan, 12, is an underage bantam with the Swift Current Broncos and he had an impressive 12 points in his first seven games. Kole, of course, is the one drawing the most attention now. “I remember his dad as a player and it’s fair to say that Kole is more skilled,” Wickenheiser quipped. “Kole comes from a great family. He’s a grounded kid. In a lot of ways, I think he’s your typical Saskatchewan farm boy from a small town. “He’s got a nose for the net and seems to have the ability to score timely goals and not everybody can do that. He’s a good size, and I think he’s not going to be afraid to play in the physical areas at the next level. I also think he’s going to be a good team guy. He comes from a community environment and he remembers where he’s from. “He has that dynamic element as a player, but I also think he’s going to be a guy who will show up night in, night out.” Wickenheiser and Lind aren’t in frequent contact. For instance, they each joked about being surprised when they were both entrants in a summer camp two years ago in Florida run by noted skills coach Darryl Belfry. Kole Lind of the Kelowna Rockets skates with the puck against the Medicine Hat Tigers at Prospera Place in Kelowna. Marissa Baecker / PNG Wickenheiser does keep up on Lind’s exploits, though, following how the 6-foot-1, 185 pounder did in midget with the Saskatoon Contacts and now junior with the Rockets, along with all that went in to the Canucks using a second-round pick, 33rd overall, in last summer’s NHL Draft to snag his rights. When she started up her apparel line, she sent him a care package. Lind wears a black Wickenheiser signature ball cap in the dressing room before every practice and game with the Rockets. “When he was young, I remember thinking, ‘This kid is going to be a player of some sort,’” explained Wickenheiser, who announced her retirement from international hockey last January. “You could just tell. The way he skated, the way he moved the puck, the way his smarts matched his physical ability. “I’m really happy for him. And I think Vancouver Canucks fans will be happy with him for a long, long time.” Lind is a Wickenheiser fan, too. You probably figured that was coming. He says that “she’s the greatest women’s hockey player the game has ever had, and just to know her and have her support pushes me to go further.” Ask him about who he modelled his game after growing up, though, and he goes with another Prairie product, picking Jordan Eberle. It’s logical. Now with the New York Islanders, Eberle, 27, is a right shot right winger known for his offence. Lind would have been about 10 years old when Eberle first burst on the national scene, with his timely tallies at world juniors. Eberle was playing in the WHL for the Regina Pats then. Regina is about three and a half hours from Shaunavon. Kole Lind performs a Long Jump during the NHL Combine at HarborCenter on June 3, 2017 in Buffalo, New York. Bill Wippert / PNG One of the knocks on Eberle over the years has been his commitment to defence. That’s one of the questions about Lind moving forward. Expectations of his play in own zone have been increased by Rockets coach Jason Smith this season, according to both Lind and Smith. For instance, a year ago Lind would come out for the final few seconds of a penalty kill. This time around, Smith has opted to use him on one of his two main forward duos when down a man. “It’s helping me understand the game even more,” said Lind. “I think Jason has really laid it on me and I want to be a guy that he can rely on in all situations.” Smith, 43, who’s in his second year at the helm of the Rockets, maintains that he’s seeing growth in Lind. “I think after going to his first rookie tournament and playing against men at training camp he knows what it takes,” said Smith, who manned the blue line in the NHL for 1,008 regular season games and spent two years as an assistant coach with the Ottawa Senators before coming to the Rockets. “That first training camp is always a real eye opener. “With all young players, the offensive zone is the fun zone. It’s easy to play there if you’re skilled and getting results. But you have to be accountable in your own zone. It’s not about being an elite defender. It’s about being responsible, about not cheating, about your coach being able to put you on the ice late in the period for a faceoff in your own zone. “Kole is trending in the right way. He’s maturing. He’s taking advice. He can deal with criticism.” Skyler McKenzie of the Portland Winterhawks stickchecks Kole Lind of the Kelowna Rockets during third period at Prospera Place in Kelowna. Marissa Baecker / Getty Images Lind was a fourth-round pick of the Rockets in 2013 WHL bantam draft after he produced 22 goals and 46 points in 20 regular season games with his Swift Current Raiders bantam side in 2012-13. He played the following season in midget with the Saskatoon Contacts, and put up 21 goals and 37 points in 44 regular season games. The next year, when he was 16 years old and could have been a full-time regular with the Rockets, they sent him back to the Contacts and he flourished, tallying 45 times and recording 79 points in 44 regular season games. His coach there was Marc Chartier. He’s the father of former Rockets sniper and current San Jose Sharks farmhand Rourke Chartier and his hockey resume includes being a teammate of former Canucks coach Willie Desjardins under coach Dave King with the University of Saskatchewan Huskies when they won the CIAU national title in 1982-83. “He knew where the net was from 200 feet away,” Chartier said of Lind. “Great work ethic, great kid to coach. He never took days off. He was a great kid to coach.” Last week, Lind was named to Team WHL for the Canada-Russia Series, which Hockey Canada lists as one of its precursors to picking the world junior team. They’ll play Nov. 6 in Moose Jaw and then Nov. 7 in Swift Current. Lind scored 30 goals and had 87 points in 70 regular season games last season with Kelowna. http://theprovince.com/sports/hockey/nhl/vancouver-canucks/canucks-hayley-wickenheiser-talks-up-skills-of-prospect-kole-lind ---- Dudes on pace for 40+ G, 110+ pts season
  15. I'm surprised how well Marky has played, but even more surprised we haven't been able to put more then 7 g in 3 games

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    2. Silky mitts

      Silky mitts

      Really? Our roster isn't exactly full of offensive talent

       

    3. Alflives

      Alflives

      What?  Markstrom has allowed at least one very weak goal every game.  That's not exactly breeding confidence in the team to move forward, is it?  

    4. Fateless

      Fateless

      Its actually slightly ironic how Luongo and Markstrom were traded for one another and they both have the exact same problem of letting in a super weak goal every game.

  16. So should I trade Murray in my pool or wait and be patient

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    2. Mathew Barzal

      Mathew Barzal

      Imo drop him for Niemi cause he let in less goals.

    3. apollo

      apollo

      Pittsburgh is going no where fast with the loss of BIG GAME BONINO. Trade all your penguins. 

    4. Mikey2Dope

      Mikey2Dope

      Be patient. I've always been reactionary with my NFL/NHL fantasy pools and it always bites me in the ass. This year I swore I would be more patient and I am killing it in my NFL one. If after 3 - 4 weeks he is still looking this bad then I would definitely look at replacing him.

  17. Upshall used and abused the Canucks, got a free ticket to China and enjoyed life only to leave us a few weeks later #whatas1ut

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    2. JM_

      JM_

      @PunjabiCanucks let us know if you wake up with an itch 

    3. Green Building

      Green Building

      I can't believe Upshall would do that. No class.

    4. Coconuts

      Coconuts

      Scottie Upshall, gone but never forgotten. Forever in our hearts.

  18. Jagr's heading home

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    2. PunjabiCanucks
    3. SedinMadness

      SedinMadness

      jagr is good but too slow now..time to move on.

    4. Green Building

      Green Building

      I hope he gets a job in the NHL from one of those 2-3 teams. After this many years in the game a swan song season/goodbye is in order. &^@# he's old and slow though.

       

      To never play another game, to retire in this situation, it just feels weird and wrong. Also, take whatever you can get Jagr, even if it's league minimum. 

  19. Even if we somehow pull of a miracle season no way we are getting above 75 pts as a team with our goaltending

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    2. smithers joe

      smithers joe

      i'm sure, they will do their best. during the rebuild, that is the best we can hope for. i'm rooting for the team.

    3. canuktravella

      canuktravella

       not sure whats wrong with markstrom he stole games last yr  he will this yr as well  theres lots of time  to tweak lineup in season  benning probably makee a few trades because we have excess in d and forwards 

    4. SedinMadness

      SedinMadness

      i feel that punjabi has a valid point... however i am looking for the positives and i like the direction the team is going. right now stopping goals will be a struggle. miller saved our butts in many games while he was here.

  20. Whats your opinion of a future line of 

    Virtanen - Horvat - Boeser 

     

    Virtanen played on the LW during his 45G season for the majority and tbh Boeser is the best RW we have in our organization...

     

    Also, is Baertschi defensively responsible enough to be on our 3rd line in the future? Don't want to let him go but I dont see a top 6 role for him in the future...

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    2. Baer.

      Baer.

      Let's not forget this is the same guy who only scored a measly 19 points in the AHL last season. I don't see him playing a big role on the team although I hope I am wrong.

    3. ItsMillerTime

      ItsMillerTime

      He has looked great in preseason though but I see the max for Virt being 2nd line. 

    4. luckylager

      luckylager

      Never know til you try.

       

      I'd giver a go

  21. Vancouver Canucks 2017.18 Pre-Season Open Video

     

  22. First we get 50% of hockey coverage committed to how the Leafs suck.

     

    Now its 80% Leaf coverage on how good they are, a little bit on the Oilers cause of McDavid, and if they have time any other team

    1. Fantomex

      Fantomex

      Pretty much.... Winnipeg who? Calgary what? ....Vancouver?

  23. A little something to help you get hyped for hockey season. One of my favorite videos

     

    1. J-23

      J-23

      My favourite before every season is this Bieksa mix. It's a masterpiece lol.

       

       

  24. So based off TSN Radio 1040, if Rodin doesn't make it this year the beginning he will head back to Sweden

     

    http://ckstam.streamon.fm/listen-pl-2971?smc=10

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    2. Coconuts

      Coconuts

      Sekeres is trash.

    3. PunjabiCanucks

      PunjabiCanucks

      I didn't believe the Goldobin one since he has a career for sure, Rodins left, got hot, injured and here we are.... so I did believe it a little more.

    4. VanGnome

      VanGnome

      Sekeres and Price are just butt hurt that they weren't offered positions at AM650

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