Squamfan

Fine

I'm a little defensive regarding the Canucks.

Suckarses, that guy's the worst

Sounds like a sound-bite spun into something it's not.

@King Heffy Personal stats over winning , what... You got some of that Kool-aid over there as well I see. If he cared so much about personal stats he wouldn't dish out as many assists as he does, and instead score way more goals, you're seriously stretching this one way too far 

Assists are still a personal stat.  If he cared about winning he'd start backchecking and cut out diving and the tantrums.

That's Edmontons fault for not winning , they're relying on a 39 year old goalie to carry them if McDavid doesn't score , team was put together horribly. 

Milbury would have traded at least 2 of Horvat, Hughes, Petey, Boeser, or Edler for scraps, throwing in Podz and Hoglander as sweeteners.  Even the biggest Benning hater has to admit the team's in a better position than when he took over.  Even the biggest Milbury apologist has to admit he left that team in a worse position.

Damn double post

Thanks Anti-Benning crowd. 
Needed the laugh before bed. 

^^^^ I feel the same way about Rasmus Dahlin but I highly doubt Buffalo moves him.

Alright shut er down guys lol

Buffalo would have to be nuts to move Dahlin, he's gotta be viewed as one of the post-Eichel building blocks. Same with Hayton I'd imagine, he's young and cost effective enough for Arizona to want to keep. 

The Arizona experiment needs to end, let Quebec have em. 

I have no issues promoting Bracket to chief scout and AGM and letting go of Weisbrod. 

this is silly. Benning clearly trusts his scouting team, but it is a team. Is Brackett the draft whisperer? did he do all of it by himself? 

@Squamfan holy crap, i love how you use crappy sources like taj to make your argument.

Lol, Elliott guaranteed that Gallagher was leaving Mtl and Edler was 100% confirmed to not resign here.  Why some of you still buy this garbage is beyond me.

Now Dhaliwal is saying not one Canuck has asked for a trade LOL. 

The L’s just keep coming for you ahahahaha

Barzel will definitely take a HUGE step backwards this season, especially since Trotz will expect him to actually play in his own end.  

"yep

eddie (no calder, no meaningful success)

and

barzal (calder, high draft pick, ongoing success)

clearly a reasonable comparison"

Well I was just trying to give an example that was a "local example" but my point still stands even if the example wasn't a great one.

Boeser will tally 30+ more points than Barzal. And this is if they're both healthy. 

Well at least social distancing wasn't too difficult.

Silence of the Sqams

Only if they take Alf as a cap dump.

Isn't Alf paid in Scotch and scooter batteries? 

^^ Adds up. Aqua needs the money for more below minimum wage workers at the farm 

@Jimmy McGillWe have 2 Bills sports radio commentators here who most people can't stand on WGR550.  When huge amounts of people started to switch off the station because of those clowns, they compromised and cut down the offending shows hours and added another show hosted by a guy named Sal Capaccio who is much much better than the other 2. 

ah so you do understand. It makes you wonder how these guys get media jobs in the first place. Maybe because so few people actually apply for them. 

Sure I understand, but what I don't understand is why people listen to a station that they don't like.

Stop listening and they'll make changes.

@Alflives After the Markstrom news, it's pretty likely. 

I can get behind the Benning hate but your disdain for Green is unforgivable.

Worst case scenario we miss the playoffs and the UFA's walk, best case scenario Thatchy D wins the Conn Smythe and the dynasty begins.

We miss the playoffs likely Green will be the first to go...

Harshly worded but I agree, I think seeing the age demo that watches the CFL would be interesting too. 

Me too nux (hanging with Geroy)...was doing a "grand opening/signing" in Richmond along with Dave Dickenson.  Was in the summertime and I went early to "line up".  Was so disappointed to see maybe a dozen people there.  But they hung in there anyhow and chatted with all of us in a very casual, relaxed way.  They were so cool about it all.  Laughed because there was a trivia challenge with prizes and the same few of us kept getting the answers and prizes.  Everyone got a prize.

Quality man Geroy.  I have a framed print of him ... he was a force out there.

Damon Allan was an amazing guy....

Took a  small group of at risk./. street kids / drug issues....  teens up snowboarding...at a local moutain. ... first time for them.  Got them all a lesson .  Damon Allan was in the lesson.  He realized what my group was up to.. He then offered to spend the day. with 2 of my group.....  Then snow boarded all the day with 2 of them. 

I thought that was pretty cool of him.  It was a quite a few years ago.. but i think the guy was modest and had a huge heart....

He looked and played like an NHL rookie.   It was great to see him join the rush a lot but clearly some of the joins were at odd times.   He seemed to be enjoying it and he seemed to have sufficient speed and size to compete and my guess he learned a tonne.   The fact that he looked better than at least 1/2 of the incumbent Dmen who played in the first two exhibition games speaks volumes on a number of levels.   

@Rob_Zepp OJ will be in the regular lineup next season, he's just going to get stronger and more confident in Utica. 

he looks better than some regulars and should make the team

There is absolutely zero chance TB trades Point.  Despite his size, he's the closest they have to a ROR/Bergeron type.  He's the last guy I'd move if I was looking to shake things up there.

I'd do that trade in a heartbeat, but as other's have said, no way Tampa does that. Point is worth a top 3 pick probably.

Top 3 pick plus a solid, young top 6 forward on a cheap contract still probably doesn't get it done.  Would you trade EP for Colorado's pick and Kerfoot?

Squam, I like your sense of humour but this stuff you are posing lately is growing old quickly. 

Squam is the poor fella who makes up all those fake profiles on Facebook putting us and the org down he will be back as someone else when this account is banned.

If Benning gets (dis)credit for picking Podkolzin, OJ and JV, neither of whom have their stories finished yet btw, then he also gets credit for EP40, Hughes, Boeser, Demko etc.

Hey look another Stanfan post  

@BettyWhites44 This GIF never gets old

Loui has an NTC, and $6 mill for 33 year old who can't even match his age in points. If after all the music stops with the musical chairs and it's the only option. Then maybe? I don't think it's a lock by any stretch. 

Even after his bonus for the upcoming season is paid by us, he’s still a 3 million cash player.  Hardly that difficult to pay that and get a player that’ll have more of a positive impact on a team.  Throw 3 million at Hutton for example.  Next season is probably the time Loui E will be nothing more than a bad memory.

Don't get my hopes up

I'm ok if we keep him. I just hope he matures, and finds another gear in the sudden death series. 

after a supposed "poor camp" in September (and the usual ledge sitters having their usual feak out) Jake continued his upward progression having a career year in a shortened season.  

he just spams jake and benning hate, nothing unusual of him.

Loui needs the money. In late 2016 he bought up five restaurant bars in Goteberg for just over $7 million Cdn. The restaurants were owned by a guy who was charged and convicted of two counts of rape of young women in his restaurants, so he lost his liquor licenses and had to sell. Annual revenues were a little over $11 million Cdn a year. But when Loui bought them, he still couldn’t get a liquor licence because the former owner’s head guy was still more or less running the operation. So revenues in the first year were just over $4 million Cdn. I don’t know how the operation has done since 2018, but Loui not only lost his scoring touch, he lost about $3 million in his first year as a restrauteur. Link: https://www.expressen.se/gt/sport/nhl-stjarnans-mangmiljonsmall/.  You’ll need Google translate.

@Curmudgeon -- Great find.

Becoming a Restaurant owner is one of the worst businesses to get into statistically. I truly doubt Loui walks away from the rest of his contract. I do think the Canucks will trade Loui this summer, probably with a sweetener attached.

@Quantum i'll have to be enough of a sweetener to give that NHL GM diabetes.

Pittsburgh has always been good, yet Sutter was less successful than Bonino when he was there.

But more importantly, look at Bonino's playoff performance from last season. He had 18 points in 24 games and was in consideration for the Conn Smythe. I think it's safe to say Sutter will never have that kind of offensive impact no matter how many minutes he gets or who he plays with.

Considering where the team is right now, I prefer having Sutter to Bonino. Bonino may have more offensive upside, but Sutter is imo a better two-way player, and serves our current team better than Bonino would.

Gotta love Bonino's cap hit tho.

@48MPHSlapShot Yea like I'm not saying Bonino's a bad player at all it's just people who say he's better than Sutter are wrong for the most part. 

peters might become available. be careful what you wish for. 

@smithers joe Yeah no. Don't want Flames sloppy seconds. 

@mll Philly has 3 as well. 

I'd be happy for em tbh, they've a good fanbase for a southern team and they've got a legit contender. Nobody on that squad I really dislike either. Beats seeing Pittsburgh win again.

Nashville has great leadership in their head office. Their drafting has been superb, and they've made great trades.

The Canucks have been mostly miss with their drafting, with some good players here and there, but nothing crazy. Trades have been alright, but nothing game changing.

It's just not easy to get elite level players. It's not easy to get amazing, puck moving defensemen like Nashville has. I mean, they were so stacked on D that they were able to move a great young D like Seth Jones for more offense in Ryan Johansen.

St.Louis(67) is the longest suffering team to never win a cup , followed by Vancouver(70),Buffalo(70) and Washington(74).

They sould sign toffoli. Trade jake and use that cap for a dman. We are better off trying to outscore our problems .

we lost TT and going backwards ....so no we wont be outscoring our problems, back to tanking i guess

tt hasnt signed anywhere yet theres plenty of time to make deals im not worried just no selling our futures away 

@apollo Judd Bracket is the reason we struck gold at drafting. Benning didn't even want Petterson 

Who is Judd Bracket? @Squamfan You love him so much.

Just gonna leave this here...

@Tre Mac   It's just adding insult to injury when the league justifies their stance like this - reminds me of a 5 year old who just whacked another kid and is explaining why it's not their fault.

The rule states it doesn't matter if it was intentional or not so that statement by the league is pure BS

@Where's Wellwood

I know this is unrelated but I've seen a non high stick call before when it was ruled the player was following through a shot.