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  1. I posted this idea last year. To Ottawa: Brock Boeser To Vancouver: Brady Tkachuk Analysis: These 2 young players are different. The likelihood of this deal depends on the subjective evaluation of each team's professional scouts. Tkachuk is on ELC and thus grants Vancouver cap saving. prediction: This deal is 50/50 and totally dependant on how each franchise's professional scouts' opionions. If Ottawa's scouts think that Boeser is the next 35-50 goal scorer of the league, they would be happy to pull the trigger despite of Boeser's injuries.
  2. To Dallas: Brock Boeser, Antoine Roussell and Brogan Rafferty To Vancouver: Alexander Radulov and Miro Heiskanen Analysis: Both teams are somewhat challenged with the cap. Dallas is an elite defensive team with below average offense. Vancouver is above average in offense but below average in defense. These 2 teams can help each other to balance out their shortcomings. Dallas swaps an aging and declining Radulov for a potential franchise level young winger. Radulov has 2 years in remaining contract. Roussell is salary cap dump for Vancouver. Prediction: although this deal is within the ball park of fairness, Dallas is unlikely to make a risky move due to the uncertainty of Brogan Rafferty. Vancouver may have to throw in additional incentive to be persuasive which Cancucks management may not be willing to do. The Canucks management loves Brock Boeser even though he may not be untouchable.
  3. Detroit is unlikely to take this deal but: To Detroit: Brock Boeser and a lessor prospect or pick To Vancouver: 2020 1st round (4th OA), Moritz Seider, Loui Eriksson (no salary retained)
  4. Look at how tough of a time several free agents had last summer including Jake Gardiner. This year is going to be worse. However, I do expect Toffoli to leave since this year's free agent forward group is not very strong.
  5. Most likely T.T. will take a one year $5 million contract in hope of achieving a point-per-game season to jack up his market value.
  6. It sounds like a tough gig in Vancouver when the boss was a former director of amateur scouting himself. However, it would not surprise me that the new director to be named would have a better relationship with J.B.
  7. Very reasonable conjecture. Personal relationship and chemistry are also important. There are lots of people who are not very effective with communicating their emotions and parsing their thoughts. Some people are not very good at listening or conveying respect and empathy. This builds misunderstanding and resentment over a stretch of years. For instance, some people are fine with doing a disproportionate amount of work and yet getting paid less. However, their ego entail validation and respect in this scenario. Is the big shot regularly praising him? Is the boss letting him having the final say or take up more time during the meeting than others? Is the boss cutting him off or brushing aside his ideas in front of his colleagues? I like J.B.'s personality a lot. However, he is too much of an old timer. He does not strike me as a guy who invests time (nor have the time) to make everyone feel appreciated and important. He is not a charismatic leader like Bill Clinton. This is where I think Trevor Linden should have excelled at. Perhaps the Canucks organization needs to have a new President who is the cheerleader and glue to minimize dispute and hold the management team together. He can listen to gripes and complaints and remind everyone why together they are gonna achieve great things in the near future. Although these folks are professionals, they are clearly making decisions based on emotions and ego. The old timers like J.B. may be difficient in this regard.
  8. I just listened to J.B.’s interview regarding Judd’s departure. J.B. sounds very sincere. It is clear that as a former director of amateur scouting himself he takes drafts personally. This could turn out good or bad for the Canucks. However, if he identified Judd as a talent and promoted him throughout the ranks, I am confident that J.B. can find another competent guy to fill the role. Here are what I think are J.B’s biases: - he doesn’t seem to know much about goalies - He likes skilled D like Hughes and Rathbone, he does not hold their small size against them - He loves physicality, size and skating for forwards, he does not have a problem adding skill to the team even if some size are lacking, for instance Hoglander. However overall he favours a tough physical team over what Montreal seems to be building. These are the biases that are expected to continue or even amplify when a new director of amateur scouting arrives.
  9. There is a clear bias against J.B. Lets concede that every single draft idea from J.B. is garbage and every single draft idea from Judd Brackett is a home run, isn’t J.B. the one that promoted Judd Brackett into management? So why can’t J.B. pick another good candidate for director of amateur scouting?
  10. Man you are suggesting that Judd Bracket is the one who does not wish to have his decisions questioned.
  11. J.B. was director of amateur scouting for Buffalo. I wonder what his relationship with Buffalo's G.M. was back then.
  12. Every single player the Canucks traded or gave up on will come back and haunt the team. The end.
  13. When you score 5 goals in 4 games you were not good enough, regardless of injuries, goal tending or refs. The Bruins were more tenacious and mentally tough. They elevated their play when it counted. The better team won that year. What was inexcusable is how Mike Gillis failed to replenish the team through the draft like Boston did later on. He also botched the best goal tending tandem in team history. The 2011 team was short lived. They could not maintain their window of contention for long. The Sedins took too long to learn how to dominate.
  14. I would bet that it is a simple a case of personality incompatibility. You can work with people that you do not jive with if the two of you maintain your distance and respect. However, after 12 years in the Canucks organization, I'm sure Judd Bracket feels that he has earned the right to be blunt and persistent with J.B. with absolute good intentions/motives. I am sure that J.B. in his own way gave Judd a lot of rope. However, once distance is no longer there, conflict and friction build up, and the respect may be infringed upon. Once certain things are said, they can never be taken back. In my humble experience, people like J.B. who have a soft mild manner may be the easiest people to tick off. They tend to emphasize long term relationships founded upon low conflict and empathy. Whereas people that are aggressive and rude tend to forget the insults eventually and focus on the transaction aspects of the relationship. They tend to enjoy arguments and disagreements as a form of entertainment. They get the rush from it and need to start arguments to have fun.
  15. Depending on his pull, Judd Bracket may be able to poach some scouts and staff from the Canucks in the near future.
  16. If Canucks adopt a nothing to lose and have fun mentality, they could do some damage this year. The 3 most critical concerns/focal points are Markstrom, the D core and Boeser.
  17. - Knowing one or a few instances that someone was correct with their draft opinion does not mean that they are necessarily good at drafting. The information that we need to know is how many times they were wrong with their draft input. In this respect only insiders know. J.B. would have insider info as to how many times scouts missed on their draft choices and this is something fans are not privy to. A scout could have been lucky suggesting Pettersson to management for the 5th overall pick and but his track record overall could be mediocre. - What worries me about this Judd Bracket situation is not that he is leaving but the potential indication that there is something wrong with the way J.B. leads this organization. The responsibility to hold J.B. accountable resides with the owners.
  18. I am very disgusted with Gillis' interviews. Yes he admitted certain deficiencies but he underplayed the fact that the Boston Bruins remained a Cup Contender following the 2011 Cup Finals as they hit a couple of home runs in the draft. Whereas the Canucks under his leadership was not able to draft and develop a franchise D and a franchise forward (with all due respect to Horvat he is not a franchise centre). Gillis also screwed up the Luongo/Schneider tandem, the best in franchise history. I am really glad that Mike Gillis learned this and that lesson since he was fired. However, his deficiencies meant that the best Canucks team in franchise history only had two seasons of Cup contention (one season actually going far) versus the multiple seasons that other franchises enjoyed.,
  19. With all due respect you don't quite appreciate the terms used to describe players. In common usage it goes like generational > franchise > elite > great/good
  20. My biases: - In the predict-the-score threads, I consistently predicated Canucks to lose during the past 2 weeks My opinion: - This losing streak reveals a lot of about this team as well as a part of this fan base. That part of the fan base is mentally weak. I don't know what kind of charmed life they had but somehow they think in life if you put in the effort you would be for sure rewarded. Life does not work that way a lot of the time. - During that winning steak in Jan/Feb, many people expressed how this team may contend for the Stanley Cup as soon as this year. I did not agree. Now, I do think this generation of Canucks is developing the mental fortitude to contend for the Cup in the near future. I love how the team responded after losing games that they deserved at least a point for. I love how the team fought back after that that first period goal. I love how this team kept pushing after Arizona tied and then took the lead. I love how the young core responded. I love how the veterans played. This team does not feel sorry for itself. This team works hard and knows how they should play. I think this team may develop a strong identity and become more mentally tough than the team that went to the Cup finals in 2011. That 2011 team collapsed several times vis-a-vis Chicago. - I am more impressed with how this team is handling this losing streak than the winning streak back in Jan/Feb. Ovie and Washington went through years of disappointment and personal attacks to finally win. People already wrote off the Blues after decades of futility and bad start last season. Everybody hate Boston but the Bruins keep going. This losing streaking will make men out of our young core.
  21. 4-2 Arizona wins Hall scores first Kessel scores as well.
  22. Good point. I have been defending T.G. decision to retain Eriksson on the 2nd line. I think fans have greatly undersold how average Roussel played during the past couple of months. He tries for sure, but he is not particular fast nor big. His offence has been underwhelming.
  23. A few points: Fans need to stop being mentally weak like the team they are accusing the same of. J.T Miller and the Lightenings lost to Columbus in the playoffs last season. This year he picked himself up and is having his career year. None of the Pacific Division teams played consistent this season except for maybe Edmonton. All teams in this division had major losing streaks, except for Edmonton. Difference between home record and road record is staggering. The coach can’t be exonerated for it. This game is mostly positive because Canucks played well including the new goalie. They kept pushing in the third and lost on the “little things” that people mock Eriksson for. Disappointment stems from some veterans. Travis has to sit Roussel. It has been a couple month of average hockey from him. May not be a bad thing to sneak into playoffs as an underdog, like Los Angeles and Boston did previously. The Canucks are in another down cycle right now. There will be a winning streak in March. This young core is learning from losing and adversity. The Sedin Kesler team had to lose to Chicage multiple times to figure things out. I have been vocal about Boeser needing a few more seasons to reach his potential. I hope watching Miller play gives him that ah-ha moment and help him figure out his new identity on the ice.
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