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That doesn't sound as impressive as I intended ! Good eye........the "Calder Trophy". lol.

Manukyan, like all our draftees, is a future Calder Cup finalist, until he isn't !! Capt. Futuresight says so. Capt. Hindsight will, of course, see things in a totally different way. Capt. Futuresight loved Petrus Palmu too and today he has an ELC. He's not always wrong !!

I missed DP's 'what we know for sure........' broadcast this morning ( okay the last 337 mornings in a row ! ). How did the Mr Leather Pants rate this draft ?

Any news update for Y-P Laplante. Never did know what put him out for the season. An AHL version of Dorsett.

No ! He can attend camp, but no money can be involved. No freebies ( meals ? lodging ? )

My poor little brain doesn't know what to think ! I'm going to wait for Dave Pratt's expert analysis. /s

Very happy with with this pick. I ( somewhat tongue in cheek ) wanted JB to draft 6 d-men. With Hughes and Woo, a huge improvement in our 'top 4' d-man pool.

JB seems to have adopted a 'swing for the fences' attitude to his later picks. Starting with Abols then Gunnarsson, Palmu and now Manukyan. Our depth issues are less obvious now and it would be hard to fit all our drafted players into the 50 man roster. Those ELCs can clog up our system for 3 years each. Might as well lean towards the outliers with a high ceiling component to their game. I know I'm looking forward to seeing Kristoffer Gunnarsson ( 0g, 0a ) as much as our new high scoring munchkins !

Worst draft ever /s ! Well only 6 Calder cup finalists ! Sad. On a serious note, might as well swing for the fences in the last couple of rounds.

We could re-name the team the 'shiny new toy overload' ! After today, you'll probably have a couple of newer shiny new names for the roster !

His AHL salary is $300k, but there's a guaranteed $400k minimum.

Indeed ! Now we just have to get @Alf involved........or are @Alf and @Alflives the same person ?

If I remember correctly, Boucher had 3 stints with the NHL last season. His 1st and 3rd visits were same old RB. The 2nd stint, he was great. Looked better than Goldobin. Can't imagine anything more than one year. Make or break time for a 'high ceiling, low floor' player !

I'm not a YouTube person, but the clips above gave me a chuckle. The big guy could be a lot of fun to watch. His few 'end to end' rushes were a treat. Something that hasn't been discussed too much is that his popularity will put bums in seats. Lots of bums. Follow the money. I believe the Canucks are working hard behind the scenes to get him back.

Nothing........love your stuff ! Didn't want to pick on one of the Negative Ninjas/ tough guys/ never ending blah, blah guys. It would open an ugly can of worms that would go on forever. Really shouldn't have picked on anyone. Vain attempt at humour. Would love it if CDC had a list of banned posters.

After following the link, I read the feedback on SN. Haven't done this in some time. One + posters had hijacked SN comments section and made it all about him/ them. Surprise, surprise, but the same character ( Arty57 ) is still there making the comments section 'all about Arty'. Recently our forums page was down ( along with all NHL team forums ). I went to HF. Ouch ! Talk about total crapolla. Our Rugby friend from CDC was there. His post didn't jump out like it would on CDC as it wasn't the 'most negative' by a country mile. I think that's why he likes CDC so much. His negativity draws attention on CDC. On HF, he's just another Sean the Sheep. Kudos to the CDC moderators for keeping the Artys of the world elsewhere. Now.......let's talk about Alf.

Not sure if we're talking about the same dates, but KG must be signed by 1/6/2019. https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/canucks/reserve-list

As per CapFriendly........ https://www.capfriendly.com/teams/canucks/reserve-list

When training camp rolls around, the #1 'must see' for me will be Ben Hutton's performance. There are going to be many, many interesting stories at training camp, but most will not involve the opening day 2018/ 19 roster. Hutton and Gaudette will be the biggest ?s at camp. Dahlen, Goldobin and others less so. I don't rate Pettersson as a '?'. Like all end of season interviews, Hutton talks a good story. Let's hope that the 'walk' equals the 'talk'.

Martin Gelinas ?

Would love the links to these two thoughts. If I heard Dave Pratt saying 'What we know is Tanev loves TO' I'd call BS. I can't believe how many CDCers are trying to move Tanev. Canucks need 4 top 4 d-men. We have 2. Where is the hockey logic in dumping 1 of those 2. Suddenly Edler is left alone to carry a defence full of #5/ #6/ #7 d-men. We need another ( or 2 ) Tanevs, not 1 less ! I guess if we snap our fingers and John Carlson suddenly appears on our roster, things might work out.

I doubt that the poster is young. Darin Bader was drafted in 1990 and I doubt too many young fans know of him

Any retool/ rebuild has to hit rock bottom. I think we are now heading 'upwards'. A small step, but we are now going in a positive direction. What the 'nucks need at this time is a solid veteran d group. Maybe a calm, efficient RHD who can play 20+ min and shelter all our shiny new toys. Where oh where can we find such a d man ? Seems that about 56 different postings have determined that this can be achieved by trading CT ! The whole 'trade CT' movement is just not based on logic. CT is exactly the kind of player we need ! Cue 27 more 'trade CT' threads !

More to do with poor record keeping. Bure was slotted to be a pick in 1990. Igor Larionov let the Canucks know that Bure had played a bunch of unrecorded games. Those unrecorded games made him eligible for '89. At least a couple of teams protested the pick and for a while it seemed that we might have the pick taken away from us. He was rated #1 for 1990 !

Middle # is ELC signing bonus. ( x3 ) CapFriendly answers all questions ! https://www.capfriendly.com/players/lukas-jasek