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[PGT] Carolina Hurricanes at Vancouver Canucks | Dec. 12, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
i'm discrediting the wins? i said let's not get ahead of ourselves people here after a couple of wins are acting like this team is a stanley cup contender. they have played good they have played well and they were also lucky they just played 3 of 4 teams on back to backs and 4 of 4 teams with backup goalies and a team missing aho peces deangelo. so Demko playing amazing kept the team in it and won the game he's part of the team? when he gives up couple of bad goals he's horrible it's all his fault? -
[PGT] Carolina Hurricanes at Vancouver Canucks | Dec. 12, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
what am i talking about? all i said is let's not get too ahead of ourselves? cool it's the Hurricanes on a back to back missing their top player and couple defenseman and playing their backup goalie. i like the effort and how we aint starting each game no show like before but we haven't seen them play a healthy non tired team yet in this stretch.. Demko literally is the main reason we won the 4 games. -
[PGT] Carolina Hurricanes at Vancouver Canucks | Dec. 12, 2021
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Canucks Talk
nice win the team is actually playing hard and like a team big contrast from before, but let's not get too ahead of ourselves. we just played 3 teams in a row that are on the 2nd of back to backs. let's hope they carry the momentum and the efforts into the new week -
Do you believe?!!! There's no way but up.
wai_lai416 replied to NHL97OneTimer's topic in Canucks Talk
realistically? prolly not we need to climb 5 teams just to get the last wild card spot.. hard to imagine 5 teams just all of a sudden falls off a cliff. maybe 1 or 2 of them.. which means you still need to climb over 3-4 teams. if say just 1 of the 5 teams plays .650 hockey till the end.. we would literally need to be winning .750 the rest of the season just to be close -
too bad Luongo played on some pretty piss poor teams his first 6 seasons or he would easily be well into the 500 wins too. one stat i'm surprised with is Luongo actually have the highest save % of goalies in the top 5 wins all time by a fair margin.
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Who has bought tickets because of coaching change?
wai_lai416 replied to Muckalt classic's topic in Canucks Talk
oh i know i have had season tickets for the last 7 years, but because the arena is so empty it just makes it even more noticable the amount of bruins fan in there. -
Who has bought tickets because of coaching change?
wai_lai416 replied to Muckalt classic's topic in Canucks Talk
i dunno man last nights game the arena is maybe at best 75% full and a good 1/3rd of them are boston fans/jersey so i doubt anyone is buying ticket coz of the coaching change and won't change till we put on a decent streak -
boeser and podz literally spent a year in college and the other guy spent 2 years in the KHL.. it's not like they jumped straight from the draft into the NHL.. hogs spent a year in his country before covid shut it down. basically all those guys developed in their own league instead of the AHL.. all our players on the roster except the goalies developed in their own league instead of the AHL. all the so call AHL developed players are fringe/non exsistent.
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no my point is maybe it's not really our drafting that's the issue it's our AHL development and their mentality on whats more important. player development or trying to win the calder cup. there's literally 0 players coming out of our AHL system besides the goalie that you can point to made significant strides in the AHL and looking at some of the players ice time for our prospects during their development it's not wrong to question them.
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no i'm not defending gillis picks as i would agree it was bad overall what i'm trying to say is you guys give way too much credit for Benning's pick considering how high he have picked in his tenure and how many high end bust he ended with and how he given up on most of the players that ended up OK nhler for other teams and gotten nothing out of it.
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so you are comparing a bunch of top 10 picks to a bunch of 20+ picks? sorry hodgson was actually decent but he had attitude problems and AV/medical staff ruined him so to pin that on Gillis saying he's a bad pick? Benning 2nd rounders 3rd rounders were all at the beginning of the rounds.. Gillis 2nd rounders are almost in the late 50s like are we really trying to compare a mid 30 pick to a mid 50 picks??
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really? dahlen's development is coz of the AHL? you might as well give every player that played a game or 2 in the AHL credit. kole lind? the guy that we were gushing on that couldn't even make the kraken's sorry roster? McEwen his 1 poing -10 in 20+ game? or gadjovich his 1 point -6 in 14/15 games? you guys are giving way too much credit for these fringe NHLers or Dahlen who literally have nothing to do with the utica system. Lind McEwen Gadjovich are at best depth call ups on a decent competitive NHL team and might have a regular spot on a bottom feeding team just because there's 0 talents or players on those teams.
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Well if you guys are going to give credit to players that are fringe like gaudette or players on other teams like forsling.. then connaucton and Hutton you have to give credit to too no? Both are closing in 100 pts as a defenseman. Benning have more bust that set the team back in the 1st round than so call gems in the 1st. The #5 and 6 pick overall busting with nothing to shoe for it, and who cares about his later rounds other than demko and hoglander none of them plays for the team nor we have anything significant we traded for. Maybe we should take a look at our ahl system and not the draft picks themselves. It seems vancouver never ever were able to develop anything in the ahl level almost ever. They put more emphasis on winning than player development down there it seems so maybe it's not the player we drafted being the problem... maybe it's our ahl team in general thats the problem.
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Lol we would literally need to play .750 hockey the rest of the reason to even remotely have a chance.. we are 12-13 points out on top of those teams having games in hand.. even if we go 10-5 we still not even back to .500 yet that's how disastrous it's been.
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i don't hate JB im just not a fan of JB he did some great some good some bad and some ugly through his tenure here. I'm sure he was handcuffed/pressured on some of the moves like drafting virtanen and quite possibly re-signing green coz of budgets and unwillingness to go into a full rebuild but it is what it is. hopefully the players respond to boudreau who theoretically should cater to our skilled players with his offensive style of hockey. if boeser and pettersson turns around on production i can care less if we lose every game the rest of the season.. at least it'll show we have the talent in the top 6 we just don't have the players on the bottom 6 and defense and build from there.
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interesting.. so either Benning won't be fired till his contract runs out since i'm guessing boudreau is here this season and the next? or whoever's the new GM whenever that will be won't be allowed to hire a new coach at least till boudreau contract runs out. i don't see FA paying green and whoever else goes with him, benning, boudreau, new gm new coach all at the same time. maybe we find out FA secretly was the GM of the canucks the entire time
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[Waivers] Evander Kane, Logan Shaw
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
ya supposively the leadership group of crosby and co hopefully is able to put kane in his place -
[Waivers] Evander Kane, Logan Shaw
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Theres a rumor floating out there pittsburgh is in serious talk with Sharks on a 3 way deal 2 team retaining 50% each -
[Waivers] Evander Kane, Logan Shaw
wai_lai416 replied to -Vintage Canuck-'s topic in Trades, Rumours, Signings
Damn looks like some team is gonna get Kane for 1.75mil cap hit. Low risk high reward if he can straighten out his life. As for custody of the child, I rather give it to Kane than his wife who aborted a human life and lied/pretended she didn't. Given she's throwing so much rumors about Kane betting against his team doing whatever she can to ruin his career to strengthen her case and so far all proven false. I'll lean towards she's more bat sh!t crazy than Kane is. -
yes i know it's highly unlikely but at the same time they just moved into a new building and need to sell tickets. so there's a small remote chance.. whether or not they'll be good next year remains to be seen. they have too much invested in the 2 goals almost 9mil. dobson needs a raise and they are pretty tight against the cap. most of the contract that's coming off next year are minimum salary so they need to replace it with minimum salary contracts on top of giving dobson a raise. so who knows it's a pipe dream