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  1. I want to see the Russian Brad Marchand with this kid.
  2. Against us, but merely hitting him got Burrows tossed. Against the Ducks he was a non-factor until the Ducks pretty much let Calgary win a game. I know this is an extreme, but if you take a team full of Gaudreau's and put them against a team full of Virtanen's, it will be a bloodbath unless it's an all-star game. However, I am not ever going to be a fan of Johnny Fraudreau, and Virtanen's my boy, so it is what it is. Right now Calgary has temporarily surpassed this team.
  3. Facial expression analysis is best left to the real experts.
  4. I'd probably care less about his tweets and more about his skating.
  5. Sigh... At the end of the day it doesn't matter. Kylington and the other defensemen 'were 2nd rounders' and we 'took the BPA' with Boeser, and then the team didn't get their 'assured trade for 2nd rounders' done. It's all part of the plan. Maybe i'm dead wrong about Boeser anyway. Afterall, nobody listens to me.
  6. Indeed. I guess time will tell, because I seem to recall the same people saying all the right stuff about McNally half a decade ago. It's great to develop these guys in college... Until they don't develop. Or they just leave. Stranger things have happened. As Canucks fans we've seen it all.
  7. "Getting a college degree is important to me," said Boeser, who says he has been asked to go to the Canadian Hockey League but decided to stick with the NCAA. "Just getting it for life after hockey. It's not all hockey your whole life." We may not see Boeser in the pros for years, and by then he may just Schultz off to the team of his choice. (The Minnesota Wild.) A guy drafted 23rd overall in the 2015 draft should have been able to become a pro right away. We will wait and see what happens here.
  8. Yes, we know. Potential. Will gain strength. -40 is due to the team. etc. etc. etc. Same song and dance. Can't rip these guys, but ripping Virtanen is a go.
  9. You hear people say this, but others say we have so many RW's that we don't have any room. But you never hear that we're full of decent defenders.
  10. Not shocked at this draft selection at all.
  11. Not sure why we didn't select a USNDP player instead. On second though, yeah I'm kinda sure.
  12. Boeser kinda moped all the way to the draft floor, but so did McCann.
  13. I like this pick for sure.
  14. There's some time left before we get to complain about the next round of Benning draft picks.
  15. I said maybe the plan was to not merely replace the Sedins, but to improve on them, in regards to playoff performance. Jake would be part of that plan, but not the whole. This is why i'm not too hung up about passing on the pseudo 'franchise' talent that Ehlers and Nylander represent. It seems that Benning agrees. If he changes his mind about that, well, then I won't be surprised. It's the Canucks.
  16. Technically, I didn't even say Virtanen does. Shall we read?
  17. No you didn't. You're just making some lame point about toughness over skill. Let it be known though that Virtanen has skill. I do wish more people would notice.
  18. Leading the Q in playoff scoring doesn't mean much if he doesn't advance past round two, does it? It makes the Q look like a joke. In his elimination game he was pointless and said he was tired. But aside from that, how about the 1 goal scored by him all WJC despite getting 30mins a game in an offense-only role? Anyway, there are other ways to make an impact on games besides empty points in losing efforts. And as for the 'franchise' capability of either other player, i'm just not buying it. There are just so many unlikeable aspect to their game and I'm sure we'll do better in drafts down the road. Even if we have to wait for a Sedin retirement.
  19. No BS needed. Enough has already been said in the full calendar year since the 2014 draft. Maybe you guys can just cheer for your boys on their boards or something.
  20. Maybe the plan is to not select Sedin replacements, but instead to select improvements on the Sedins. Meaning guys who are better playoff performers. And considering Nylander's and Ehlers no-show efforts in big games thus far... Anyway, I'm certainly glad Benning passed on these guys, regardless of how they turn out for their respective teams. If Virtanen fell to either team, they'd be drooling all over the power and speed aspect to his game while we would be pumped about power play points scored in meaningless and easy games while defending diving and falling antics. Meanwhile, what of Ritchie? Are we totally ignoring his decent OHL playoff? OMG Ritchie! I think there will be other players besides Nylander and Ehlers in the future. I wish them well, but frack I am sick to death of you guys bringing them up.
  21. I'm wondering how you guys assume that we won't pick as high in awhile considering the downslope the Sedins, who are still counted on here for offense here, are on? Wishful thinking? It seems that Benning saw Nylander and Ehlers as I do. Their one-dimensional skill just wasn't all that noteworthy, not enough to make up for their respective flaws, and are hardly what we'd want our team to be built around. We could do better, and we will.
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