Jump to content
The Official Site of the Vancouver Canucks
Canucks Community

Mathew Barzal

Members
  • Posts

    6,546
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by Mathew Barzal

  1. EDIT: Misread With Zegras we'd pretty much have a 1A and 1B line.
  2. Bo (shoot first centerman) and Zegras (playmaker) would make sweet, sweet plays together.
  3. I mean, going all in and avoiding career suicide decisions don't have to be mutually exclusive.
  4. Of course, I'm not even talking about the lottery. In the top ten, you should be guaranteed a top-six forward or a top-four defenseman if the scouting team does their due diligence. The quality of available players drops off quite a bit between each third of the first round. This year, for example, more than likely one of the US national studs will fall to us. That opportunity doesn't arise at 15-20.
  5. Fair, I guess. I'm more inclined to say tanking is synonymous with what the Penguins did to get Lemieux. Grabbing the players stated in the OP would be lateral moves for stability and depth. I'm okay with that as we still have a fairly young roster that needs to grow into their shoes. We were extremely competitive for most of last year while still finishing bottom 10. That's not a terrible fate IMO.
  6. Our defense is and will be god awful for the foreseeable future. Hughes is the only shoe in defensive prospect we have. I don't believe any of the defenseman currently on our roster (including Hutton and Stecher) should be locks on a playoff roster. We'd either have to pay through our ass to acquire a UFA (always terrible decisions) or trade one of our forward studs to acquire a bonafide #1. Tanev and Edler will not be around to see this generation to contend. Tanking isn't the word I'd use here. We just simply are not that good of a team. There are too many holes in this roster that can't be filled with offseason pick ups.
  7. None of these three will help the Canucks move up the standings, therefore I can get behind trading for them. We need two more solid bottom 10 years.
  8. Don't care what the "people" say, rock and roll is here to stay!

    1. Drive-By Body Pierce
    2. Drive-By Body Pierce

      Drive-By Body Pierce

      ...perhaps one of the last great rock innovators. Let's hope that changes!!!

  9. Hopefully, that was the straw to break the camel's back in Arsenal, something needs to change.

    1. thejazz97

      thejazz97

      As a Spurs fan, part of me hopes it never does.

    2. AV.

      AV.

      Must-go:  Chambers, Elneny, Jenkinson, Ospina, Mustafi, Lichtsteiner

      Should-go:  Mkhitaryan, Ozil, Kolasinac, Monreal, Koscielny, Martinez

      Keep unless fantastic transfer offer:  Aubameyang, Lacazette, Xhaka, Iwobi

      Keep: Leno, Bellerin, Holding, Sokratis, Maitland-Niles, Torreira, Guendouzi

       

  10. Oh did he? That's good to know!
  11. Unpopular opinion: Gaudette is still a very raw player, he should log big minutes in Utica instead of being on the roster next year.
  12. Hawks are going to get another legendary BC dman. Figures.

    1. Show previous comments  1 more
    2. Coconuts

      Coconuts

      I'd rather the Avs get him than the Hawks tbh. Avs are fun to watch and I'm so goddamn tired of Chicago. Still can't believe they jumped up, &^@#ing garbage. 

    3. Ghostsof1915

      Ghostsof1915

      I wish he actually fell to Vancouver. 

      It would be nice to have a potential all star play for the city. 

       

    4. Mathew Barzal

      Mathew Barzal

      Definitely would have been nice to have a bonafide number one stallion to call our own. Oh well.

  13. Kakko, he plays a style of game that will translate well to the playoffs with his skill level and physical build. I also think Kakko is on par or only a smidge behind Hughes offensively.
  14. Bronn. What was the purpose of setting him up as an assassin if Cersei and Jaime just died together? Jaime. His whole 7 season arc had his moral compass flipped on its head, then it gets thrown out the window for 'poetic' death with Cersei? LOL. Dany. Sure, she can turn into the mad queen for all I care. But the reasoning behind doing so was not fleshed out at all in the show. It was such a leap in logic from the few uncomfortable 'I don't fit in' scenes she had, to completely burning a town of innocents (all while not even trying to go after Cersei mind you). Varys and Tyrion. Initially intelligent and cautious individuals become blithering idiots by the shows end. The Dragons. A decent sized boulder defended Jon from dragon fire and now that $&!# just blows up buildings on command? Not to mention Drogon's evasiveness stat must be +100 compared to Rhaegal. The Golden Company. ... why even bother showing up?
  15. The only thing that would have made the Arya scene cornier is if she woke up with half her face burned. A bunch of character arcs were wasted in this episode.
  16. I mean, is that not what Pouliot was this year too? I guess they both aren't whipping boys.
  17. Dude what. Markstrom has one year where he exceeds our own standards (all while not exactly breaking ground statistically) and suddenly he deserves a lengthy extension? Give him a 1-2 year prove it deal and then we'll talk long term extensions.
  18. So what did Tampa do wrong? What if Boeser and Pettersson end up being playoff equivalents to Stamkos and Kucherov? Where would Benning have failed to account for that while he 'builds' this team?
  19. This is ridiculous, what do you even mean by that? By any logical measure, Tampa Bay destroyed the league this year. It's not their fault the playoffs are a different animal.
  20. Not mad at what went down but the way they portrayed it in the episode was some Transformers level writing. I hope Cersei wins now.
×
×
  • Create New...