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  1. 14 minutes ago, *Buzzsaw* said:

    Here's my prediction for the results of this trade:

     

    -  Bo Horvat will sign an extension with NYI for a reasonable price... Canucks fans will be surprised how cheap.

     

    -  Bo will score close to or more than 50 goals in total for the season after being placed on the NYI #1 PP unit... he will do the same the next 2 years.

     

    -  NYI will make the playoffs... and the Canucks will have a pick not eligible for the lottery and one which will not give them much of a return.

     

    -  Anthony Beauvillier will play on the 3rd line in Vancouver... will continue as a serviceable but uninspiring forward.

     

    -  Aatu Raty will play in the AHL for the next few years... will end up as a 3rd line center for the Canucks for a few years.

     

    Trade will go down in Canuck's history as the second worst after the Cam Neely fiasco.

    You’re living in fantasy land if you think Horvat is a consistent 50 goal scorer within that Isles lineup hahaha

  2. 2 minutes ago, stawns said:

    C'mon, that's a sh!t deal for your captain and top 5 goal scorer in the league.  At least bring back a dman of some kind, even as the cap dump.  A small winger who doesn't score?

     

    Cousin Eddie Battle GIF

    He’s not a top 5 scorer and he has led us nowhere as a captain. Realistically Bo is a 60 point scoring center. Maybe the return could have been a touch better, but not by much. 

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  3. I’m glad this distraction can finally be put in the rear view. They said that we needed major surgery, and it seems to me like this is it, or at least the beginning. 
     

    Bo was great for us but as our performance has shown in recent years, for whatever reason, the group hasn’t had great results with him as the captain. It was time for a different direction. 
     

    I hope this is the beginning of us getting back to some winning hockey. 

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  4. 17 minutes ago, DeNiro said:

    Toronto media are really running with this Boudreau story asking everyone to give their input on it.
     

    They’re acting like a coach has never been fired in an unceremonious way before. :picard:
     

    Hope they’re ready to be ridiculed after they fire Keefe in the offseason. 

    I honestly don’t understand it. Like you said, coaches of underperforming teams get fired all the time. This team has been trash and there had been no signs that Boudreau and his staff were implementing anything to improve it. Yeah, maybe the timing was a little weird, but the plug needed to be pulled. 
     

    If he wasn’t such a personable guy people would be on board with this coaching change. 

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  5. While I don’t necessarily agree with how things have been handled, these are the hard decisions that this franchise needs to make. What we have now is clearly not working, and my hope is that if we are making a coaching change, that we instill a more hard nosed and defensively disciplined style of play. Give Tocchet the year to see who doesn’t fit the mould and clean house. 
     

    I will agree that it’s hard seeing Bruce like that. Seems like a great guy, but we do need to change the culture of this squad. 

  6. 1 hour ago, RomanP said:

    Actually, it’s not something out of nothing. Mikheyev’s English is far from perfect and there were a few questions where he oversimplified the translation, primarily from English to Russian, in some cases changing the actual concept of the question asked.

    Sure maybe there may have been things lost in translations and maybe it wasn’t the most fluid interview. That being said, it is still quite a large overreaction to a preseason interview. I guess I just don’t really understand the nitpicking quite this early in the season for such a trivial thing

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  7. 1 hour ago, Locke Lamora said:

    Guarantee this is more total money and term than the new management had originally intended on spending. They were so up front about getting a handle on the team’s cap crunch over the next few years. They somehow were unable to garner good offers from other teams for JT, which seems like a bit of a fail to me. So it seems they just said F*ck It, let’s go all in and try to win now. But there is that issue of the defence. As much as I’d hate it, I wonder if they shop Bo to try to fix the defence. As much smack he gets form certain posters around here, Bo is HIGHLY regarded around the league. You would think they would get a nice package for him. But after failing to do so with JT, who the hell knows.

     

    I hope this all works out. It’s all about winning a Cup, not having an entertaining team, with JT leading the offence, for the next handful of years. It’s all about the Cup.

    I do agree that they spent more than they had wanted, but that’s kinda how negotiations work. You gotta pay up to keep premium players. I just think at this point with the suspected offers and the possibility of Miller walking, that this worked out pretty well for us. 

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