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  1. quote: the changes we need to make are not with our core players, but with other players
  2. 2 of those D on Tampa were signed as free agents last summer I saw a post that said there was no good D to sign
  3. major surgery; with a caveat that that "Major Surgery" does not include the core so, more of a nip and tuck or a major surgery on minor players
  4. paying for Stiller and PD is not better than paying for Vey that is paying for Waiver fodder 2+5 for Bear is a bit steep Bear hasn't proven to be more than a 5-6 guy so a 2nd is too rich
  5. I wonder how many owner have cleaned house as many times as this group? Burke Nonis Gillis Benning Some people have survived for a short time through a regime change, but other than Smyl, and a couple of scouts everyone turns over and I asked this recently, How does Smyl get off without blame?
  6. well. there was that rumour that ol Jimmer HAD to over pay and add a year or two because Vancouver was in a down cycle (Drance probably started it) I never believed it though, I thought it was because no other agents, or players, would respect you if you din't bend ol Jimmy over a barrel "Never give a sucker an even break" and all that I would group your list into several categories 1 Home Towners, Lazar, Myers, Benn, and Hamonic (wanted western canada) 2 the Overcompensated, either $ or term Loui. Ferland, Beagle, Myers, Roussell 3 younger guys in danger of falling out of the league, DiGuiseppe, Fanta, Schaller, Joshua, Delia, Lazar Most did actually fall out of the league 4 Older looking of a last shot, Holtby, Ericksson Beagle, Halak 5 Sutter was a trade and that leave Kuzy and Mik who for what ever reason seemed to be a pair there are only so many jobs in the NHL, so guys will go where they think they can stick, even if its not their first choice
  7. the funny thing is that I have only seen or heard Thomas Drance about 10 times that is about 7 times on Donnie and Dahli and 3 times between periods with Murph I guess I don't watch/listen to the other shows he is on BUt I have heard about Drance many more times on here as the leader of the foolish and impressionable maybe you are right though, maybe there is a large segment who goggle up his ranty words and you weren't speaking to me directly anyway when it comes to Bo/Miiller, I'd take Petey I am a believer that this group has spent too much time losing with poor management and poor coaching that I think it needs to be disbanded it should be a rebuild and it could include hockey trades but it needs to be more aggressive "major Surgery" than JR talked about yesterday
  8. it really came down to the same dithering that the new regime is also engaging in now Guys were claused up, but coming in after a year of Torts put JB in a good position He waisted his upper hand by regressing into "Another run for the Sedins" mode Willie's 101 point season is the worst thing to happen to this franchise last decade Jim was in a position to make whole sale changes on the heals of Torts/Kesler but got starry eyed thinking there was another Cup run in the Sedins' future Likewise the 1/2 run or Bruce Bump if you prefer had the same effect Starry eyed GM/Prez thinking there is more there than there is A wiley GM trades large from the moment he arrives and stocks up on 2023 picks in 2022 like trading Chiarot for a 2023 first at TDL day 2022 it funny nobody calls it the Willie Bump or Torts rebound it's sad just how similar this rerun is
  9. this is where our lack of cap space come into being a problem there are a couple of teams, Montreal and Vancouver that are capped out and rebuilding all the rest, Chicago etc are in the bottom 1/3 of the cap
  10. the coaching staff was better with Walker and Shaw should have offered Boeser Mikheyev $ they scored at the same rate last year, offer Boeser a show me contract Mikheyev was a good signing FA d-man.. Colin Miller 30 yo +16 could have had Miller and Mik for the price of Brock $1.85M FA D-man.. Ian Cole 33yo +12 $3M FA D-man Josh Brown 28 YO 6'5" shoots R -8 (in arizona) $1.275 M FA D-man Ollie Maatta 28 YO +6 $2.25 M FA D-men Mete , Gustavson, Sustr, DeHaan, Meloche, Staal and could have had P Myers off waivers trading Boeser got harder after that signing, Garland is tradable but not going to fetch much Miller got harder to trade after signing also I could see us stocking up on 3-4 -5 round picks for the players we are trading away
  11. I think Petey was better off playing with Kuz and Mik I agree he makes those around him better its funny what you say about the Sedins, because more than 1/2 their career was spent looking for the 3rd Sedin
  12. then PA should do better than Ol Jimmer did we will see
  13. That is one way of looking at it but Bo is on an expiring contract while Kesler had term It was also Ol Jimmer's best deal, we could only wish that all his deals were that good
  14. hahahahahah that is such a load! Name one poster to ever quote Drance as proof of their argument Drance is the most hated person in Vancouver and you think he is leading the "blind" Name one poster who actually likes Drance here I'll help you out I like Thomas Drance But I rarely agree with him, I just think he is funny, and when he speaks he winds up people like you blaming him for everything wrong in Canuckville But other than me, name one poster who admits to liking Drance what are all these Drancehaters doing, hiding under their covers at night secretly pledging allegiance to the messiah whose name they shall not speak? That is about as likely as JT earning his millions in year 5
  15. its stupid to talk about 1st OA I want to win the lottery too
  16. Pettersson is 4 years behind Bo, and Hughes is 5 years behind Bo IMO Horvat decided last year to wait out his chance at FA so that means 3 and 4 years what can the retool do in 3 years to make Petey want to stay? We get a first rounder this draft, but no second, (thanks P A) Basically we need to draft Crosby (Bedard) Malkin and Letang in the next 2 drafts for Pettersson to see any reason to stay I didn't like it when Ol Jimmer said retool, but at least he was retooling a team that went to the finals the Bruins retooled and now have the best team in the league still with Marchand, Krejci and Bergeron they retooled Lucic, Seguin and Hamilton and most of the rest of their D, mostly for 1st and 2nd round picks Now we suck, what is to retool? we have sucked for a decade, there is no one left from the glory days How do you retool a team that has not even been good? I don't see how you retool a team with no history of winning
  17. the changes we need to make are not with core players what if it is "core players"? how many times do we see Horvat, Miller and Hughes hemmed in their own end by other teams core players?
  18. does JR have pieces better than Kesler Bieksa Garrison HIggins Santorelli Mathias Markstrom Lack Kassian Hansen Tanev Weber Burrows Hutton Dalpe and maybe keeping Hamhius happy would have benefited the teams growth
  19. Bruce is coaching awesome these days he is doing all the things that I thought made Greenie a bad coach I wonder if he is in regular contact with Lou Angotti?
  20. nice to see him stilll playing Canucks won that trade and nice to see that Dalpe didn't just play 55 games in Vancouver and pack it in those 55 games for Vancouver ware the largest and most compact of any of his runs in the NHL
  21. nope pretty sure its all because Gillis left poor Jimbo nothing to work with
  22. the real irony in this thread is that there is a group who have said, " This is not the 80s, the 80s is gone forever" and that same group believe that the "ONLY" way to stand up for your mate is to take a penalty, and the reason you take that penalty is by resorting to 80s style justice even the idea about taking a number, why not tell the guy you have taken his number? Is that going to net you a penalty? why is it that this group who believe that they are talking to neanderthals cannot fathom standing up for a mate without immediately punching another player in the head? it's ironic really it seems the term "Stand up" is misunderstood Derek Dorsett was the easiest bait ever the guy took every fight, no matter the situation
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