Sativika

The alternate forum isn't working right now. Guess it's overwhelmed with member chiming in post this game and it's not able to take in all that data at once. I'm sure the bugs will be fixed at some point. So................that's why I'm in here. Thought they looked good. No one looked outta' place; new guys, young guys and goes without saying, the big guns. I especially liked Blueger and Bains. Hogs looked good too. Joshua had a better game. DeSmith IS our back up to be sure! Petey phenomenal on face offs; definitely looks to seriously improve his game as he said he would. Good to see Captain Quinn shoot more. I don't usually watch games with telescopic vision, but I sure was tonight and all in all they played a sound game. It was a great test to see how the PK would do against the potent Oiler's power play. Looking' good thus far. I can't wait for real games to start with a full roster. Raty and Bains may make things interesting come final roster choices! Go Canucks Go!

Do ya' think PA approached Montreal first? At least reached out to them with a, "Are you interested in (insert name of winger here).?" And was DeSmith on PA's radar from the beginning? I dunno. After watching the movie "Draft Day," the whole process of player negotiations is very interesting.

Yep. Same here. There's already a ghost town vibe taking control in here. They'd be welcome to join as members. Why not. I'm guessing they're fans just as much as anyone else. Also. I came in here to see if the JR, PA, Coach media thing got posted yet on Canucks TV. Apparently not yet. I'm going to the new forum now.......... Bye, bye!

3 - 2 Peggers in a shootout. Anyone else watch it?

I don't really remember exactly when I joined. It was post 2011 I believe. Sedins, Jannik and Kessler were still around. My handle at the time was NexusRift. There was a glitch with CDC a lil' while back and I had to sign in again with what is now Sativika. I can't express enough how much I enjoy being a part of CDC. I've belonged to a few forum sites and was a Mod on a couple. All voluntary, all fun! I guess online forums are going by the wayside. It's really a product made for desktop computers, of which I'm using right now and have been since 1997. I'm an oldster and have yet to use my old iPhone6 for anything other than calls and texts; still use email, and FB. Point I'm making I guess, is that it's out with the old and in with the new. At least there's hockey to watch. Gonna catch the youngens on the CanucksYouTube at 2pm. Go Canucks Go!!!!!!

Wow........Bummer of the highest magnitude. Really. It truly is. Guess I'll be hitting those other forums suggested in this thread. Well, we got till the end of this month and then it's sign off for good. I presume it's just the forum that's going away. Canucks TV and such are still going' on, right??!?!?!?!??!?!?!?

To reiterate further, we can't conceivably go for him till we get rid of some cap.

It doesn't matter when or how. Obviously to quell our anguish, sooner rather than later. But we gotta sign this kid. He's the real deal. Off to a bad start? So what. It happens to the best of 'em. Injury? It happens. And quite frankly, none of that has happened yet. Now is the time and the future looks bright. Do it P.A.!!!!!

Guess we're not going after him anymore, huh.

Jeez! Settle down y'all. Don't you just hate when you're all riled up and someone tells you to "chill the f*ck out, dude!" "Nuff said. Back to topic of sorts........ Had Bear not got injured, could this Bouchard signing have been in any way impactful to Ethan's situation with us regarding contractual crap an' such? I know. Dude's a free agent now and can sign anywhere, but curious. that's all. Or impact us in any way at all????

Agreed. I'm old. But too young at the time to witness anything before Dryden or T. Espo. And even during that era in the seventies, I was pretty much a young stoner who was into hanging' out with my crowd being, well....young! However, I went with the Dominator. That dude made me say, "Holy Sh*t!" a lot! Any number of goalies with SC championships can be mentioned. As above in Turco, previously mentioned Barasso, as well as Vernon, Belfour, Richter to name a few; Osgoode, Quick...hell! Even guys that haven't won a cup, Luongo, King Richard, I dunno....I can't think of anymore. Good answer, but he wasn't one of the choices. And there isn't a box to tick off for 'Other.' However, King Richard was the sh*t in that run for sure! Who did Jon Casey play for again?!?!?!??? Yep...I'm old alright.....

The mess of Messier. That's it there. Many in CDC didn't experience that whole fiasco, but many in CDC did. And boy, was it ever painful to bring in the captain of the team that defeated us in '94. Messier mighta' been great as a Canuck, but he was a cancer more than anything. Sure.....Nazzy gave him credit for his transition to captain in the WCE era, but really....that's all Mess gets from me. Hate the guy as a Canuck!

Holy jumpin'! Impressive highlight package. Going only by reading stuff in CDC on Hronek, I didn't really have any opinion regarding our acquisition of him. Only that since we gave up a 1st and 2nd for him, he must be something worthwhile. Upon viewing these highlights, I'm on board 100%. I can only hope that with the players we have surrounding him that we can achieve the same kind of chemistry with Hronek as he had in Detroit. Jeez. I can't wait till the new season begins!

Okay. Thanks for that. I seem to vaguely recall the scenario of Silovs being sent somewhere early on in his tenure with us. And I presume the ECHL is pretty much a bunch of undrafted/unsigned free agents with a sprinkling of semi-washed up pros and amateur pick ups? Must be horrid travelling for west coast based ECHL teams. But as far as an ECHL affiliate closer to Vancouver, I definitely see the advantage; as we're seeing now with our AHL Abbotsford Canucks!