@WarhippyThat's why I said 2nd round pick and a decent prospect instead of a 1st round pick or a blue-chip prospect.

Since the Canucks have a Top 3-5 prospect pool now they can afford to part with a "B" level young forward and a 2nd round pick in order to free up 6 million in cap space to bring in a new top free agent to replace Eriksson.

In my opinion, gentlemen..this is just one more case where we just ship OUR problems on down the road, to someone else. I'd like to work with him..I think we can help him...

(paraphrasing Nurse Ratched :^)

Better they collapse under pressure right away, rather than in the playoffs for 7 million each.

i did not intend my post to suggest they should be thrown to the wolves now

just that the question is not completely offside but relatively fair

S'all Good Man appears to be expressing a valid concern as well

that these kids should not be thrown to the wolves before they have gained some more maturity

expecting as kid of 18 or so to respond now to the pressures of playoff hockey is a bit ludicrous

perhaps in 4 or 5 years, with better preparation, they will develop to be able to manage those expectations

Botchford should write for Teen Beat or TMZ instead.

Too much money to their young guys too soon, leaves no money for a solid veteran presence, forcing the young guys to be responsible for too much of the heavy lifting: PK, D-Zone starts, and hard match-ups.  

Terrible coaching, terrible asset management, rushing unready prospects every single year, not ever drafting defensemen, poor management

List goes on

I don't know but if they get the 1st overall this year...

The obvious answer for why they get coverage is because they get ratings. The more interesting question is how they get those ratings. You don't have to be good or even popular to drive ratings but you have to be something that people care about. I think the hatred for the Leafs actually drives ratings for the networks. In response we should treat them with indifference. Now how do I convince people to stop hate-watching the Leafs. 

@Toews oh for sure. CBC has used that for as long as I can remember, piss on Vancouver to get them mad and watching while being fluffers for whoever is coming to town for the HNIC game. Works like a charm. 

no leaf game tonight
Which means only 42 minutes of leaf coverage on the one hour TSN SportCentre show

Took a ship to Alpha Centauri.....kinda got lost on the way...met some space goats, found a purple dinosaur, woke up in the bathroom of Mos Eisley  cantina   yeah it was ugly.........

Welcome back. Are you finished with your dinosaur?

Its got a few miles on it but I could lend it out for little while.

As fans we really don't know what goes on behind closed doors ,but we have seen what an upstanding young man Brock is and we all really want what's best for him,and his family.

So be patient and I'm sure it will all work itself out for the best.

GO CANUCKS GO!

You Brock haters are gonna love it when he pots his first hatty of the season, eh? :D

Agent is trying to get max $ amount, it’s business after all.

Every fan base gets upset with these types of deals.

We are fans, this is their job, at my job I try to make as much money as possible.

If they make the playoffs they will act like they supported him the entire time

The excuses will be flying all over the place that’s for sure

@kingofsurrey If there was any chance of him being let go after this season he wouldn't have been resigned with a year left on his contract.

I only trust NHL.com for height and weight they generally don't inflate size as much as some other sites. And it's updated each year a guy plays.

@Chip Kelly they have OJ at 6-2 182 and thats as big as a lot of guys playing D last season. I'm much less concerned about his playing size now going into next season. 

Damn I wish I had a growth spurt lol

If he's retained it means we probably ship out another big ticket forward, probably Boeser. It's not realistic to keep the gang together going forward. 

Boeser's a pending RFA, Bo's a UFA the same offseason as Miller, Pettersson will eventually need a new deal, Hogs and Podz will get raises, we'll need to replace Hamonic and that'll cost more than 3M, we may have to pay a tad more to replace Myers once his deal expires. We still need a legit 3c, and on and on. A team can only allocate so much to their top six. 

Perhaps a time to acquire some big LTIR contracts?!?

@Coconuts I agree, barring we go the LTIR route, teams tend to trade expensive support players and I think we'll ultimately have to go all-in with the core and add peripheral guys (luckily that's JR's specialty).

Build around Demko, Hughes, Petey, Garland, Hog/ Pod, OEL (no way we can move him) and one of Miller/ Bo.  Guys like Pearson/ Dickinson/ Poolman/ Hamonic/ Myers/ Motte and probably Boeser will eventually need to be shipped off to recoup value.

maybe he gets 2 hattricks who knows 

i like rodin finally hes healthy  hope  him virt and boeser get a chance  

 we will see

Fortunately the Sabres only have one more season of Vladimir Sobotka left at 3.5.  I'm hoping Botterill can trade him for a half bag of pucks this off-season.

I bet if we traded him to Ottawa he would start producing.

Torts you've finally lost it. 

God damn space reptilians sucking the neuropeptide from all our heads!

Nature wise though, it's gorgeous. I won't argue that at all. The city counsel is corrupt and incompetent as hell though.

You've certainly touched on something I've been wondering about lately. Nanaimo has the fastest growing population on the island (I think), and with all the people there there needs to be jobs sustaining them. You're right that it's definitely a town where you're better off already having a group of friends to hang with as it's a tougher social nut to crack than Victoria. I've never had trouble finding stuff to keep me busy there, but it just depends what people are looking for entertainment wise, and I know a lots of people in that area.

When I was a young adult there I was in University, then shipped right off to Van. I'd move back in the right circumstances. I'll gladly concede that It isn't a Vegas-like metropolis, but I don't think it's trying to be either.

I wonder what 22-30 year old peeps do for full time work if they aren't specialized or university educated anyways. That's got to be tough in any city. 

It is tough in any city for sure, but due to our booming population (due in part to artificially stimulating residential development but that's an argument for another day - we are a bubble waiting to burst) most of the low skill full time jobs have been fractured into part time work to be able to employ more people.

Our unemployment rate was (I believe) top ten in the country at some point. It's come down a lot, but unfortunately that's due to job fracturing and the housing boom. It's not particularly sustainable and they're going to have to figure out some way to turn our population growth into something more stable for the future.

I'm fortunate that my university education was enough to carry me into full time work. But unless you're a contractor or tradesman it's a bleak picture here right now.

It's a city with a lot of potential and very poor execution. The Jake Virtanen of island cities, if you will.

@King Heffy @Nuxfanabroad OK you've convinced me  just floating off season balloons.

Awesome contribution  @Patrick Kane good to know I'm in your head rent free now  

If anything, I'm being overly generous to Barrie.  He has not done anything over his own career to prove he has any interest of learning to actually play defense.  While some may be willing to put up with the atrocious play in his own end, I don't think that kind of play is acceptable in the NHL.  You don't win Cups with defensemen incapable or unwilling to play like NHLers in their own zone.

looking at the numbers today it looks to me like what happens is when Barrie is paired with a good partner they can really drive play but that partner has to really make up for the deficiency you point out. Man did TO ever give up a lot for the experiment. 

Yeah, mine's a bit of a fro too @Sean Monahan, but it's getting long enough to hang down a bit. 

And I've been wearing a hat every day. Because my hair is goofy AF

Pandemic hair, whattya gonna do?  

haha did no one else try to cut their own hair?

Besides the back (which I had someone else do) it wasn't very tough and looks pretty good, plus now it's grown back to a good length so it'll probably just need some further trimming then all good

Typo more than anything. But I'll keep it there.

Also, Lalongo is one of my favourite goalies.

@DollarAndADream "Bingo Bango Bongo" #TBT

I figured as much @DollarAndADream

Can't just pass up a golden opportunity to bust your balls though. 

Bieska

Ftr, I'm a huge fan of Tony Stretcher.

I think you're onto something, Jimmy!

A person will be rich that invents bacon seeds. 

A bacon tree would be sweet, but environmentalists might want to protect the sweet aroma of old growth bacon tree forests

I'd rather trade Boeser for Schenn if we're getting an older player back. Reunite the Bros.

@Canucks Cursehow about Miller and Boeser for ROR and Parayko?

The Ducks obviously. Nobody is touching that poorly aging Boeser contract, nor would they choose on overpaid winger over prospects/picks, nor will they bail out a division opponent with their contract problems.

thats what I'm getting at Joe, JB needs to call 'em up. 

Mikey your getting the net the rest of the year

  jk lol

I would give Green and Baum another year. Brown needs to go. 

Green needs to to make some changes though, team never coming to play in the 1st is on him. Quit switching the lines around every 10 &^@#ing minutes. 

Baum hasn’t had much to work with to be fair. 

JB needs to stop signing veterans as well lol. Just stick to drafting.

VanGnome you're a very weird man. 

@Western Red lol, thanks?

It's crazy though, how much of the food supply is large factor in the overall health crisis in North America. I mean, most of it is propagated by poor dietary choices and lack of exercise by many, if not the majority, but if not for the temptation of that quick and cheap and crap food, the same people who make those poor choices would still have far fewer health issues.

Oh dude, I thought you were referring to veggies and fruits. You're still VERY weird tho.

10:03 of the video is where it really gets interesting

wow thats neat. I hope they can engineer that one correctly  the patent angle is interesting as well, it may need to be publicly funded to get the therapies out faster 

Sweet, going to watch that vid later. I agree with @Mr.DirtyDangles, our food is responsible for many of our medical afflictions. The Western diet is, at times, pure sh*t.

Doctors aren't doing anyone any favours by over prescribing things like antibiotics, but it isn't entirely their fault. If you are a doctor who own a practice with patients who walk in with the common cold or flu demanding pills to placate their placebo craving mentalities over letting nature take it's natural viral course, then you are a doctor in a bind: give the mom or dad with a sick kid their lousy prescription after attempting to educate them on the matter, or do not and receive poor reviews about you as a doctor. 

I sympathize with doctors as they have to deal with people some of us would roll our eyes at, and instead of taking the hit online, they write a scrippy. 

If we could improve our diets we would be so much better off, but we definitely have a need for medical science. People really need to educate themselves a little more, myself included, so when topics like this come up in real life it's easier to have a conversation using facts instead of wives' tales.

Bonjour mes amis, je m'appelle Limmy Le Jig. 

i think horvat will know first. i could be wrong though.

@Chip KellyNo idea.  Haven't watched a beauty pageant since I was a teen.  I only even watched them then because there was no internet porn.  Dark days.....

@Nuxfanabroad Kevin Costner? He's got some draft day experience

Two of my colleagues think Mike can be bought... I don't agree.

Guess we'll see eh

SMH Alf lol

Jumbo Jake, get your sjit together!

Best post ever

@StealthNuck Alf just won the day, make it so

@Ghostsof1915Agreed.  My biggest concern for the next few seasons is catching Luongo's cap return once he retires. 

GMMG out GM'd himself. 

That Ericsson 6x 6 doesn't look "real good" now.