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  1. Why? What does he bring that will make a difference? He plays less than 10 minutes a game and he doesn't score. Vancouver already has guys like this. Why add another one? Changing up the faces on the fourth line is simply window dressing; it may look like change, but it isn't likely to move the needle.
  2. Yes, especially because he isn't a BC boy. Though he played junior in Prince George he was born in Ohio. Maybe Columbus will claim him, but with 13 goals and 27 points over 154 games, I'm pretty sure he's headed to the AHL. And he is NOT a better 3rd or 4th line player than the guys who are already here. He is not an upgrade over Joshua, Studnicka, Lazar, Dries or even Pederson. It never ceases to amaze me when some guy goes on waivers and somebody says "let's get him because he might be good". My things is, If he's so damned good, why is he on waivers and on his way out of the NHL?
  3. Not to be that guy, but I saw them at the Coliseum on December 28, 1968 in their second ever public gig. They played their first on December 26, 1968 in Denver. In Vancouver they opened for Vanilla Fudge. When they opened with Good Times, Bad Times, the audience was almost completely silent because nobody had ever seen or heard anything like Robert Plant or witnessed Jimmy Page's stunning virtuosity on guitar. Led Zep came back to Vancouver in May, 1969, this time headlining at Exhibition Gardens. I think the tickets were well below ten dollars, but in a time where kids my age were working for $1.30 an hour, ten bucks was a lot.
  4. I can't be positive about this but I'm pretty sure the number of NHL GMs who base their decisions on the opinions of TV commentators is roughly zero.
  5. Stop the presses. I have just found a lost work of Nostradamus in which he offers 20 predictions for the Canucks in 2023. For I looked into the future Far as human eye could see Saw a vision of unknown And the things that are to be…… 1. Bruce Boudreau will coach this team to a wild card spot. Then, when he is dumped after the playoffs, he will tell Rutherford to stick his structure where the sun don’t shine, which in Vancouver, is most of October through May. 2. After much back and forth, Horvat will be dealt at the draft for not nearly enough, and Allvin will say, “We like Bo, but he isn’t Swedish enough. Besides, the three third round draft picks we got back will really help us over the next 5-7 years.” 3. Nikita Tryamkin will still not be coming back, much to the chagrin of those who just can’t accept reality. 4. Canucks fans will be angered when Elon Musk cancels all Twitter activity related to the Canucks, stating that Canucks Twitter is a seething cesspit of anger and name-calling, even though that is what Twitter has become anyway. 5. The Canucks will introduce fourteen more alternate jerseys to make up for lost ticket revenue. Fans will complain that they have no room left in their closets for any more, but will buy them all anyway. 6. The radio guys will suddenly run out of Canucks news to over-analyze. Just kidding, those guys can beat dead horses in a million different ways. 7. The thousands of fans who are happy that Aquilini remains silent will be neatly offset by the thousands who complain that Aquilini remains silent. Meanwhile, Aquilini remains silent and lets his chequebook speak for him. Thousands more complain, just because. 8. JT Miller will set a new record for the number of stick slams against the boards and frequency of using the F-bomb in a single game. The old record is already his. 9. Quinn Hughes will smile at some point during the year, though cameras may not catch it. Meanwhile, in the calendar year of 2023, Hughes will pile up 104 points, 103 of them assists and 100 of those on the power play. He will remain unhappy because the goals aren’t coming. 10. Every time a scorer slumps, or a defencemen is burned too often, the fault will be attributed to Jim Benning for acquiring them and Travis Green for coaching them. Radio guys aren’t the only ones to beat dead horses. 11. In a masterstroke of counter-intuition, and knowing the team needs defencemen and centres, the Canucks draft four left wingers, a right winger and two goalies. Five of the seven will have names ending in -strom, -sson, or -in. 12. In free agency Luke Schenn is offered a two year, $2M AAV salary from Edmonton. When he finally signs, fans will blame Jim Benning because that’s how that works. Allvin will claim he ran out of time. 13. After every loss, angry fans will announce on CDC that they are finished, that they’ll never watch this team again, and that they don’t even care what happens. Every one of them will continue to watch to find fault and cirticize before swearing that that they are finished, that they’ll never watch this team again, and they don’t even care what happens 14. After every game, at least ten posters will complain that they don’t like the music played between whistles. Evidently, they don’t understand that if they want a soundtrack to the game, they can stream whatever they want through their own earbuds and phone. 15. About 65% of CDC posters continue to believe that the team can guarantee a number one draft pick just by tanking, even though no professional athlete or coach would ever deliberately set out to lose. But Vancouver, this year seeded 14th, will win the lottery, only to find out that they can’t move up any more than 10 spots, thereby giving them 4th overall and out of the goodies. 16. CDC will continue to be a hotbed of bizarre trade proposals, like Quinn Hughes for two picks and a prospect, or Schenn for a first round pick, or Kuzmenko for next to nothing. Most of these proposal will fail to consider cap hits, suitability or any semblance of reality. 17. After clearly stating that gaining cap space is what Vancouver needs, they will blow virtually all of it on July 1st when the free agent they sign put them right back in cap hell. But hey, everybody’s doing it and you have to keep up. I guess. 18. Canada will win every game of the 2024 WJC by an average goal differential of nine. TSN’s Gord Miller’s head will explode with excitement as he rushes down to kiss the behinds of every Canadian player. It will not be pretty. Vancouver will have zero prospects in the tournament. 19. In a unique twist, when the Canucks play in Toronto, the game time will be 10:00 pm EST to accommodate a 7:00 pm start in Vancouver. Toronto fans be like, “Oh, now I get it.” 20. Ron McLean, who is harder to get rid of than herpes, will win the award for the most muted man in Canadian television. He still won’t get the hint, nor will Cassie Calgary, er, Campbell, Craig Simpson, who never met a Leaf he couldn’t suck up to, and Louie deBrusk, whose incessant drone resembles a frozen cat run through a bandsaw, only worse.
  6. Everybody has an opinion about Miller's antics, and every opinion is based in a particular bias. Those that take a dim view of his stick slamming, F-bombs and door slamming think that this behaviour is somehow beneath the normal expectations for a professional athlete making a butt-load of money for playing a kid's game. They are not wrong. Those that applaud his behaviour argue that this is the kind of passion the teams lacks and that he's perfectly justified in doing whatever it takes to make the team a winner. They are not wrong, either. But as fans, we don't know the potential stresses this causes among the team. They might present a united front outside the dressing room, but players are human and nobody likes to see anybody humiliated. All I will say is this: I like Miller as a player and appreciate his desire to win but his public shaming and slamming his stick at Delia was a bush league move and did nothing to inspire teammates with his leadership. I'd bet that few, if any, of his teammates appreciated what he did and in the end, the reaction of his teammates is all that matters.
  7. Piling up points last year masked a lot of the tantrum behaviour. Now that his offence has dropped off, his tantrums are more noticeable and more aggravating. Not only that, but I'm pretty sure he isn't tradeable. I will never understand the thought process that resulted in choosing to sign Miller and not Horvat. Completely and utterly mystifying.
  8. Crosby: 1 WJC Silver; 1 WJC Gold; 2 Olympic Golds, with one Golden goal in 2010; 2 Art Ross trophies; 2 Hart trophies; 3 Stanley Cups with 2 Conn Smythe trophies; 2 Rocket Richard trophies, 1 Lester B. Pearson and 2 Ted Lindsay awards; playoffs in 16 consecutive seasons; led his team in scoring 12 of 18 seasons, 536 goals, 916 assists for 1452 points in 1143 games. Crosby put up 103 points as a rookie, losing the Calder to Alex Ovechkin. In that season, Pittsburgh did not make the playoffs. Two seasons later, they lost in the Cup final, with Crosby leading his team in scoring, and the next year they won their first of three Cups with Crosby as captain and leader. He led the Pens to back-to-back Cups seven and eight years after first winning it. Crosby's 916 assists show that he has been a master playmaker and has clearly made players around him better. His 536 goals are 9 short of Maurice Richard's career totals. I relay all of this information so that the next time you hear someone say that Connor McDavid is the best player in the world, you can say "au contraire, mon frere" and have the evidence to demonstrate that Crosby has achieved the most of any player since Gretzky or Lemieux. ***Fun fact: As of today, December 29/22, Crosby has 1452 points. Ovechkin has 1451.
  9. I thought I read or heard somewhere that Pearson had another operation after some kind of setback. He was also seen with a wrist brace or light cast in early December. There are eight bones in the wrist, plus the radius and ulna and all of the carpals and phalanges. Having just recovered from an ulnar styloid fracture, which is relatively minor, I still have residual pain in the whole wrist and restricted range of motion and diminished strength. Now, I am not a highly conditioned athlete, but hand and wrist injuries can be really difficult to treat. I hope Pearson can regain strength and range of motion, but patience is required.
  10. Pederson is also lights out from the Ovechkin spot on the Abbotsford #1 power play, but he's not likely to see any time there in Vancouver.
  11. Nice work. I like how it doesn't yield to the "burn it to the ground and get rid of everybody" crowd. You have correctly identified who should continue here going forward. I have no idea how they will get rid of all that high priced dead weight, but again, good thinking.
  12. You can't pin this on Martin. On any given night, Vancouver has arguably the worst defence in the league. Martin has been pretty good for the most part. Certainly has performed better than Demko this year. Watch the replays of the Seattle goals and see who is standing around like pylons.
  13. This is hideous. No shots. No emotion. No nothing. Everybody sitting back afraid to make a mistake and nobody trusting each other. Just hideous.
  14. I may have missed this, but does anybody know why it looks like Bear will be a healthy scratch against Seattle?
  15. If you can find a way to offload Horvat and Boeser and Myers, without taking back too much salary, you can easily afford Kuzmenko. I can dream, can't I?
  16. It's like "Burroughs wasn't our signing, and he's okay, but we got our guy in Stillman, so he has to play." Until tonight, when Burroughs was pretty solid except for getting walked down the middle on the third goal. He plays within his range of skills and is pretty good for only ever getting to play once a week, if that. I just feel more ocnfident whe I see 44 out there.
  17. Don't know if this has been posted, but it's kind of brilliant.
  18. Bo wants fair market value. Vancouver can't afford fair market value. Therefore, Bo be gone. And, the longer they leave it, the less the return, imho.
  19. Went to the West Edmonton Mall once with my little kids. There was an enormous ball pit full of dozens of kids and tens of thousands of plastic balls, probably laden with a billion different germs, but I digress. Anyway, if I were to try to explain what CDC is, I would say it's like a never-cleaned lake full of plastic balls into which hundreds of people at a time can fully disappear.
  20. I just can't see Kuzmenko being traded. As a GM, you are always looking for that special free agent who wants to come in and play his ass off. And, when a player who has his choice about just about anywhere to go, and picks you, I think you do everything you can to keep him. Vancouver was Kuzmenko's choice and he appears delighted to be here. A few things happen if you trade him after less than a full season: 1. You can kiss goodbye attracting any other high powered free agents, who would probably be distrustful of a team that makes big promises, then trades you. 2. You can demoralize your own team by moving an important guy who is producing and helping the team win. Moving him signals to the team that you are not really serious about winning. Players want to win NOW, not in two or three years of the revolving door of players that a rebuild brings. 3. You handicap a coaching staff that will NEVER buy in to tanking, because tanking means losing, and losing means your job is on the line.
  21. Very surprising, but they did let Andrew Brunette go after he filled in for the disgraced Joel Quenneville. All Brunette did was record 51 wins, 18 losses and 6 OT/SO losses. Name me another coach who got fired after posting a 51 win season. I'd think he might be on GMPA's short list if it comes to replacing Bruce.
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