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  1. This sounds good. Upgrade on the second line. He was effective with Pearson before. Schaller is gone, and Madden was always questionable as to whether he’d come, or even be NHL ready.
  2. I don’t understand why we paid several million a year for Myers, and he’s not on pp1 when Hughes is not there. Was it not because he was an offensive force? Was there not concerns about his ability to defend? So we spent the bucks in order to get the man to generate points, so play him where he can get points. I have to agree on all that’s been said about Eddie. Love the guy, he’s a great defenseman. But not on the PP. The drop passes; there is nothing wrong with the drop pass as a play, as long you pay attention when and to whom you’re dropping it to. Eddie’s an adventure, every time. Hughes has enough on the ball to know when to do it, when to carry it, when to pass it. And yes, Eddie’s ability to hit the onrushing man with his shot is matched by no one. Get him off both PPs. Have him play the solid minutes he does at everything else, where he’s great.
  3. Can’t say I’ll miss him. My least fav of the HNIC crew. Tended to blurt nonsense over top of everyone else. A classic for not knowing what was going on about the Canucks.
  4. What is this “value” that you speak of? Okay, okay, agree with the above. Be great if Sutter could get through a damned season without a catastrophic injury. To be honest, if I was him, I’d be thinking about packing it in. He’s a millionaire, and why spend the rest of your life in pain? Jim Plunkett, who won a Superbowl, (at least one,) with the Raiders, basically said life’s not worth living anymore, he’s in so much pain all the time. Sutter is going to be carrying those injuries the rest of his life.
  5. Maybe someone can enlighten me on this “plan” they keep talking about. What plan? What team has an actual plan? They have strategies, which seem to be build through the draft and develop, or trade. To identify some “core assets”, and build around them. And then react to how that works out. We bought Loui. It was not a stupid move at the time, he was the gem of free agency that year. It didn’t work out. Edmonton drafted Nail Yakupov, It didn’t work out. We traded to get the Sedins. It worked out eventually. The Leafs got Austin Matthews. Looking good, but he can’t do it all himself. The GMs are then driven by what they have, in players, and in budget. So they react, and react, and react. To blame JB for his “plan” not working, is ridiculous. I’m not even quite sure what his strategy is: draft well, and hope to pick up some complementary pieces in free agency and trade? That kind of sounds like every GM who ever ran a team. What’s he really needs to be good at is assessing team needs, the talent of target pieces, and negotiating with players and other GMs. That’s about it.
  6. I find the posts about Boeser’s “character” to be a bit naive. I would say he’d be an idiot to hold out like Nylander did, because it didn’t turn out well for the player, at all. The Toronto fans will turn on him in a second now, and the need to perform is even greater than it would have been if he just signed. He missed a big chunk of hockey, and I’m sure it played on his mind badly. But this is a business, and the team and player are negotiating a deal. It’s not good “character” to say, screw it, I’ll take whatever I’m offered and run with it. It might be smart to not want to go through the additional hassle if you don’t feel it’s quite what you want,, but that’s a whole other argument with yourself. Gordie Howe got diddled for years by just accepting what was offered, without pushing back. Was that character? The popular opinion seems to be that he was naive. So Boeser will do what’s right for Boeser, I would think. One hopes he won’t be greedy, that they can agree on a good level that makes both sides happy. But that’s not always the way contract negotiations go.
  7. A lot of crystal ball gazing. I think with the moves Benning has made this off season, and the drafting he’s done, we should be improved, and very much improved. We should have an excellent shot at making the playoffs and possibly more. No one knows how Petey and Hughes will do this year; if they take off, it could be a great year, because really, most of the other guys are not kids. We need those two to have really good years, we need Markstrom to do it again, and we need to new guys to step up. The potential is there, for anything from more abject failure to the big prize. And truly, with the last year, and the summer the Lions and Whitecaps are having, if the Canucks suck again next year, I’m burning my man card, pouring my beer down the sink, and taking up crochet for a new hobby, because I’ll be damned if I’ll watch sports.
  8. So, we’re essentially up cap $&!# creek, hanging on to the paddle by a fingernail. We have a possibility of a convoluted method of getting Boeser signed without losing anyone ahead of time. But eventually we’ll have to clear space, and we’ll have a hell of a time losing the guys we need to lose, (Loui and Sutter.) I understand that they signed contracts for term. It just seems weird to me, that in any other walk of life, if you’re not cutting it, your employer punts your sorry ass out the door. In sports guys get signed to multi million dollar contracts, and don’t perform, and just get paid. I appreciate the fact that Loui and Sutter are not just screwing the pooch, they’re actually trying, but still.... it seems to me that if you’re getting paid that kind of coin, your employer should be able to toast you if you’re not providing what you got signed for.
  9. Pouliot is a former first round pick, with huge offensive upside, if someone can get his head straight. And he’s cheap, he’s never been given the bigger contract. Hutton, I understand why JB walked away, it’s all about cap, as I’m pretty sure if we could retain him, we would. Is top pairing? No. Is he top 6? Yes, I’d say so. Normally, they’d keep him around, as he did a decent if not spectacular job last year. But clubs are wary. If he’s asking for 4 mill, he might have to pull back a bit.
  10. They’ll be lucky to get a bag of pucks back for Loui at this point. We’ll probably have to retain salary and toss in a prospect, just to get someone take some of the cap hit. But a top 6 forward? It would probably be easier to just trade prospects, then ask someone to take Loui as well. I would love to be proven wrong, of course. That would be the coup of JB’s career.
  11. Not sure how much this has been discussed before; possibly ad nauseam. I do wonder though, at the strategy employed by most teams, which is, identify a super star or two or three, some top end guys, pay them big bucks, and then sort out the rest. It seems to be the standard. If you need approximately 20 guys to play, it would be interesting to take a balanced approach. What if someone targetted say 15 guys, who are not superstars, just good consistent players. Get three really solid lines, two sets of really solid defence, and a top flight goalie. I realize it’s not the standard thought these days, so GMs are not likely to be so radical. But right now, it seems that teams are all going to have limited bucks to chase those top guys, and the salaries are going through the roof. Be a lot safer long term to spend 4 or 5 mil per guy, and get a different kind of team; less risk if someone is a bust. Also, those guys are probably going to be a lot happier in the long term, rather than have one or two really happy guys, and a bunch of pissed off also rans.
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