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Canuckistani bout to be clutch lite tbh

Jake virtanen has more goals than ehlers as it stands right now and is on pace to score more goals than nylander did last year while bringing more of the things that dont show up on the scoresheet. Sure, he projects to have less assists, but he brings far more grit and defence. He breaks even with those players as early as right now. It honestly just seems like jake it breaking out a bit later than the skill guys because he's a power forward like so many people have been saying he would. Sure, its a smaller sample size, but its pretty much a half season+ and growing. I would bet good money that this is a breakout and the production is not a fluke. The nylander/ehlers > virtanen argument is dying imo.

Jake has actually been pretty consistent in his scoring since the last bit ig last season when a lot of people on here wetr commenting on how there seemed to a shift in his game. He's a young player who is projecting upwards and the sample size that supports the idea that he can produce as a top 6 winger is over half a season large taking into consideration last year and continues to grow and your negativity makes u sound like a silly boi

Stetcher just seems to get in done on a consistent basis. I see him being a value piece down the line. Still so much more room for growth at his age, and he seems to work harder than almost anyone on the team. This is the kid who biked from east van to the rink every practice in his first year and apparently pushes himself to the point of vomit with a regularity that no longer surprises his teammates. I simply dont see how he doesnt continue to progress. I think he ends up as a solid #4 dman. There may be some 40 point seasons down the line for the boy tony.

Its just a stupid, reactionary thing to say after 1 game. Give it up man.

Im not opposed to him crashing the net, but the thing is, with his speed, it should be that often that he gets partial breaks like that. We saw it at the end of last year. It was happening with frequency. He just lacked the finish. Hopefully that goal is a sign that his off-season work with pavel barber was a good investment.

Hobey baker hype is largely based on the varsity year in which they won. Winning as a senior is kinda like dominating as an overager in junior. Doesnt mean much. Gaudette won and Motte contended for the Hobey when they were juniors, which in encouraging.

Super smart on the PP. Really knows how to bait and draw defenders to a certain position to open up a lane. There's a reason he's getting these 2nd assists.

For a long time the book on markstrom has been weak glove hand. Tonight, that glove hand looked very solid. He was snagging pucks all over the place. In traffic, off clear shots, on the shoot out. Makes me think he's worked on it this offseason or made some kind of adjustment. Very encouraging to see. Rebound control looked solid as well.

We have Travis Green who is proving to be a very astute coach. I mean c'mon... Burrows? Do We Really Need Him?

Yeah. What you said there is far more accurate. You were speaking in absolutes in your last post.

Considering he outperformed them at the same age in arguably a more competitive SHL setting, i dont see how you just dont see it.

Hilariously incorrect

Faceoffs can be a learned skill. We have an all-time faceoff guy on our coaching staff. Elias is clearly very intelligent and humble enough to be coachable. I'm not concerned. Give him a year with manny.

To be fair it was probably the 1 thing that made him a question mark. You could argue he goes top 2 if he isnt so light in his draft year. Hilarious how its looking like it'll be a non-issue though. If he reaches 190-200lbs at his peak he's probably an all-time player.

I believe it was actually later clarified in a seperate interview that he did indeed mean 177lbs. I forget where it was exactly. I think SN. Maybe someone can fact check this if they remember better than i do.

I definitely agree that dry and boring is not bad by any means, i just think olli's gonna be a bit less dry and boring than people expect. He's certainly not a tanev imo.

Eriksson is the only one that hurts imo. Roussel and Beagle are minor issues at 3M each (salary cap continues to trend up. Tomorrow's 3M is yesterday's 1M) and Sutter will still give us value, whether it be with his play or via trade when gaudette takes his role. Anything under 3 years doesnt hurt as as our youngins will still be on ELC's.

Everybody labelling juolevi as dry and boring, but i think he'll surprise a bit. While he's definitely not nearly as dynamic as a pettersson or hughes, he's extremely smooth and has above-average hands and edge work for a defenceman. Also a very sneaky wrist shot. I personally see him having 50 point potential in his prime.

Tbh its kinda stupid to think that a guy isnt training his ass off just because he's posted a few videos to his instagram that probably took up ~7 minutes of his entire summer in total

Dude, I get what youre saying. Its just that your hypothesis that less goals were scored because the sedins were on the same line makes no sense because the sedins led the highest scoring offence in the entire league and the height of their careers. Maybe the fact that they were on the same line actually helped them to be more dominant and overwhelming on oppositions? I dont know for sure, but the evidence supports that theory much more than it supports yours.

You're missing my point. Im not at all trying to argue that the sedins were good players last year. I'm addressing your argument that the sedins are easier to replace because they could not be split up. Your basis for that argument is the example of Malkin and Crosby, which makes no sense because they doubled the point totals of the sedins last year. The correct comparable is Anthony Mantha and Henrik Zetterberg. A center and a winger who had the virtually the same point totals as the sedins last year and were split between the 1st and 2nd lines. The result of this more direct and sensible comparable? A team that finished 1 spot below us in the standings. The Sedins led the highest scoring offence when they were at their peak. The lack of Canuck goals last year had nothing to do with not being able to split the Sedins and everything to do with the quality of players they had degraded to.

This is why I was sure to use the word "arguably". You could definitely make fair argument for 2017-18 bo being first line, but the counter argument would be that 2017-18 bo is not a first line player player on a playoff team, and therefore an incompetent 1st liner. But with that said, i do think it will become much easier to argue for bo as competent 1st liner as soon as this upcoming season.

Then your argument is inconsistent and has no basis. You can't compare end of their career Sedins to late half of their prime Malkin and Crosby. It wasn't so much that the Canucks couldnt score a lot of goals because the Sedins were in on each other's goals, it was that the Sedins were 2nd Line players because they were at the end of their career and the Canucks arguably only had one 1st Line player on the team to replace them last year in Brock Boeser, and before that, no one.

we literally led the league in goals in their prime.