189lb enforcers?

I think he is a perfect 3/4th liner, especially on this team. His play is what helped Horvat come out as a rookie, not his fists. He is a heart and soul guy. Is there another on the Canucks? Bit of a pause as I think. Like I said, I hope he is healthy and can play hokey and not have to be the Lone Ranger on such a devoid of pushback team. He deserves better. The guy is a good hockey player.

Would be nice to shelter him a bit and see if he can make that push. Its time to stop gifting ice time to the twins anyways. Granny might become something we can use or inflate and flip. I'd rather we keep him and inflate Baer for the TDL. Granny has some of that chippy playoff hockey sense in him. There is a shortage of that on this team and in the NHL. He might be a valuable trade chip one day.

Granny or Sutter with Vanek is the beginnings of a nice 3rd line. Looking forward to seeing a Granny get some O-zone parity and what he does with it. Shifty lil buggar!

Should have an A on to start the season. Time to transition the leadership onto the kids.

A career year, if healthy? He will get plenty opportunity this season to make JB look good. Wishing him the best of luck to stay healthy!

I'm always up for being pleasantly surprised, don't get me wrong. Anyone want to make a realistic stab at what his trade value is in terms of a draft pick? I just don't see this guy being an impact player or even bumping a kid like Goldy out of or down the roster. To me, the biggest value this guy brings is IR cap savings, which this team doesn't need.

Waived by the Xmas break

I really hope is is healthy. He is nearly all the Ying to the Vanek, Sedin, Gagner, Baer... Yang. Truely an underrated and under appreciated Canuck.

Imagine this guy on the Oilers? Imagine watching the Canucks deal with that. Trade him to the Leafs so he can have a decent career on a non-tank team. I'd love to see him on a contender.

They're all the same. Follow the money.

No. Interest slaves and zombies are still needed to fund the puppet master's plans. The destabilizing of countries and cultures is the real war. Pitching rival religions against each other through immigration, etc. is something that effects everyone except the masters. It's not only politically incorrect, but against the law, to mention names. I find it amazing how gullible and ignorant the masses are and how easy they have been controlled. The social programming spoon-fed to these slaves by the "media" is a testament to just how stupid people really are. I had to laugh at the useful idiots who gobbled up their CNN Trump news programming, esponding with, "he will not divide us!". Social programming complete; mission accomplished. But some have come around after realizing that their "media" isn't actually "news". Now you can see some #fakenews rants here or there. It's not enough to stop the libtard movement or the religious right from taking sides. Pathetic humans. We deserve each other. The only war will be waged by us on our self control. The result of our struggle to put down our electronic devices and think for ourselves. John Lennon was once shot and killed for steering the sheeple away from their death march, saying the same thing to too many listeners. Are we better or worse off since then?

If Guddy gets hurt... Actually, I'm not even going to imagine it. Back to la-la land.

Thanks Captain O. It's not worth my time to lecture you on the expansion roster cycle that follows the team's first few semi productive years, the ones which begin with empty prospect cupboards, etc. This roster is built to bring in fans now, but is also fluid enough and ripe with TDL-type desireable role players for other teams. It's a good start and far from bad when you look at their draft positions in 2018 and beyond. Their cupboards will will fill up so fast and be timed perfectly to build through the draft. This is why they picked who they did and this team won't go full Kassian on the strip.

5 sounds great to me. Is this your first expansion experience?

Are you kidding? Thats a character-stacked team of people who will survive playing in Vegas. He's built a year one team of tough, big, captains and set the culture bar as high as one could have. This is like the old school Canucks teams of the past. Big and tough. Fun to watch even though they're not skilled because they entertain the crowd just the same. They have loaded up on assets for TDLs and will be set for draft picks for years. They should be fun to keep an eye on.

Future WCE forming

Don't worry The Sedin-style leadership will see this team through its lack of physicality. (If not, our 13th forward and number 5 Dman will try to get on the ice to retaliate and seek retribution on systems that recognize and exploit this small, young team) Slim-Jim has their work cut out for them now. And that wonderful young D fallacy looks even more ridiculous today, but, silver-linings, I look forward to drafting Dahlin in 2018.

Forsberg Was every bit as tough as anybody, ever, in the NHL, but he didn't fight much and nobody ever thought they could speedbag the guy or that he'd pick up their stick for them in a scrum! Pathetic.

Nicely played. He'd look good in Vegas colors.

Trade Gaunce and Goldy for Lowry. Sweeten it if you must. Top 9 is instantly tougher in all ways.

Thrilled for this vet! Thrilled for his family. What a way to arrive on the scene!

Strike while the iron is hot. This vintage Burrows won't last and they need picks.

I'm still pissed that JB had this guy doing all the fighting, well him and 200lb Pizza. On a rebuilding team, why not get a Peluso and let role players play their roles, well?

I'm proud of him. He rates up there with Ohlund with my favorite Canuck character guys.

That's an impressive top 4 to be mentioned in, wow.