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  1. They’ll prolly keep rathbone as a 7th rotating in and out. He has shown nothing in the preseason that warrant a starting job in the bottom pairing. He has shown some flashes offensively, but I find him jump up at in opportune time. He jumped up a few times from his defensive position into the middle of the ice into a crowd a few times for no reason. He’s too focused on offence and not enough on defence. Really we don’t need another offensive defenseman on the bottom pairing. So he prolly will rotate in against inferior opponent.
  2. it's hard to argue matthews is one of the best goal scorer and is also one of the better 2 way forwards in the league at the same time.. his takeaway numbers are pretty insane and decent in the dot.. 15% is reasonable 20% is pushing it
  3. well.. when crosby won in 2009.. he's equivalent to a 12.5mil player at the time.. and when they won again malkin is equivalent to a 10.5-11mil player based on the cap % so pittsburgh technically have done it 3 times already.
  4. brock and mik can't play defense and they'll prolly take a while to get going seeing basically missed the entire preseason. i'm not expecting much out of poolman and whomever else we toss in as the 3rd pairing.. seeing we are mostly on the road won't even get much practice time in. so it's all on demko/martin
  5. Demko and Martin gonna have to stand on their head.. first 2 weeks- 1 month minus myer with an already non existent rhd.. this season could be derailed after 1 month if demko/Martin don’t stand on their head or jr/pa make a panic trade. We already have 17 mil+ worth of cap space out for game 1
  6. lol hence you put in a claim and see if u can get him.. doesn't hurt to try.. teams probably won't be as willing to make waiver claims atm as they still need to cut their own roster down
  7. We are middle of the pack in waivers. The chance of any dman that can move the needle even 1mm is next to 0
  8. lol all of a sudden hughes and miller is the best player in the world and canucks PP will be the best in the league by a country mile with podkolzin kuzmenko each getting 20 goals each on the pp those 2 alone will combine for 40 powerplay goals playing with hughes and Miller when the top powerplay in the league only have 67 goals. might as well put in dickinson on the bumper position since according to you anyone could have gotten 13+ goals playing with hughes and miller on the pp
  9. we and still send him down he just have to go thru waivers again but prolly get picked up by another team or LA
  10. Am650 signal is trash in areas with lots of highrise too downtown Isn’t particularly great either iirc
  11. Can we pickup Andersson for free to Abby seems like a low risk project.but prolly have to send him thru waivers again to get him sent down
  12. Anyone can get 13 goals on the bumper spot on the PP so why is there less than 18 players in the league with 13 pp goals? Anyone could have easily gotten that no? no one is treating miller like scrub the point of trading miller is we are not contending in the next 2-3 years ie millers prime.. ok we keep miller that’s fine. So we are ridding bo just to create holes that we may or may not be able to fill during millers prime? Makes 0 sense, unless there’s a deal that absolutely blows you away. With you guys no deal is good enough with miller, for Horvat? You will gladly trade him for a sack of pucks doing everything you can to assassinate his contribution to the team. Calling him useless he’s not that good anyone can replace him etc etc.
  13. so 1 career year in a tiny sample size and you want to pay 4.75 on 4 years? production wise he's no better than pearson.. last i checked assist and goals are both worth 1 point at the end of the day. so we are paying him 1.5mil more to skate faster? the ever so unpopular virtanen only got like 2.5mil for basically the same production minus the PK.. so the PK ability is worth 2.25mil? only in vancouver is this viewed as a great signing.. everywhere around the league looks at this as one overpaid contract for 1 career year in a tiny sample size. then you going to say the rest of the league don't know sh*t. when was the last time vancouver signed a player that was doing good with another team and think he's a great fit in vancouver worked out horribly once the season started? almost all the UFA/trades signings.. ya sure Horvat isn't untradeable just like Miller wasn't either but you sure acted like it. unless you get a top 4 RHD or a top 4 potential young rhd for horvat which i don't see any team willing to when you can just take a run at horvat during UFA horvat is not worth trading. if some team offers boqvist? schneider? whomever else around that quality ya sure trade horvat. fact is you ain't going to get anything like that.. it's going to be another 1st lundqvist + at best. nothing that'll move the needle for this team while creating bigger holes to try and fill while burning up miller's prime years.
  14. i love the narrative "most of his point came on the PP" i dunno last i checked less than 1/3 of horvat's point came on the PP the last 5 season.. and more than 1/3 of JT miller's point are from the PP.. so whats your point? i would say winning faceoff is more important than a 4.75mil PK specialist.. you can get a PK specailist for way under that if that's what you are purely after.. how many 3c in the league takes 1200-1400 faceoff?? bo is top 10 current active faceoff winning % in the league with 5000 + faceoff and he's the current active leader in faceoff % in the playoff.. it's not something you easily replace.. faceoff win = puck possession = 1 less scoring chance the other team have on our duct taped blueline. how many 3c out there that can play the matchup role against other teams and take 1200+ faceoff? not that many last i checked JP pageau doesn't play the matchup role in fact there isn't really that many 3c out there that plays the matchup role against other teams top line have even close to 1000 faceoff. and perhaps the PK problem.. maybe it's not the forward.. have you considered it's our defence that's bad?? you know.. the same ones that were exposed in 5v5 and bailed out by demko? the ones that can't clear the pucks when they do get the puck or the ones that can't clear the front of the net? you have your best defensive forward with selke votes out there in miller with pearson who does an admirable job 5v5 defensively according to you.. then why are they getting scored on so much on the PK? tampa bay have 49 pp goal against. they made it to the final just fine. minnesota have 63 goals against they made the playoff just fine. also 29 of the 58 goals just so happens to have scored in the first 25 games of the season when Green was still the coach.. 29 goals the rest of the way we gave up 29 in 57 games.. if we take that over the stretch of the entire season.. that puts us at 41 goals.. good for #7/8 in the league and operated at around 81% which would be 12/13th in the league.. so maybe we don't need to spend the 4.75mil on a PK specialist?
  15. so what 3c out there that's around to 30ish goals 60 points 1400-1700 faceoff for 6mil?
  16. i rather EP not go out and hit unless he has to.. he's not particularly big and i rather not see him get taken out on a retailatory hit.. all it takes is 1 bad hit to have a bulls eye on the back of your jersey. he's not the type that can dish and take the punishment for it.
  17. nice win.. didn't watch the entire game only the 3rd.. but seems like we didn't do much 5v5 and outscored 4-2 even strength.. something happened to miller? i thought he was suppose to play but i didn't see him in the 3rd and looking at the stat sheet.. there's only 11 canucks forward on it??
  18. yup i'll move boeser or garland before i move horvat.. hell i hope they move mikhayev and his 4.75mil contract JR signed.. that's an overpaid luxury player we dont need just for his good PK. or move dickinson/poolman with a sweetener to retain horvat. unless you are guaranteed to get something that's a proven commodity for horvat of equal value.. it makes no sense to move him.. exactly the same arguement people used to argue against moving miller.
  19. Lol and you are assuming we can get this get that when we were able to get nothing of significance in any of the miller rumours? Columbus is going to give you any of those players especially one they just signed for a pending ufa? So Miller who you guys think is the best player ever here cant get any package that is sufficient to fill the needs Horvat who you claim is inferior and sucks defensively will get you all that? Aren’t you the one that was complaining about trading miller and assuming we acquire nobody in return? So Horvat is in a different situation? You are not going to get anyone of value with terms for a pending ufa
  20. Lol miller can be a 55% faceoff guy sure but let’s assume miller takes Horvats load on draws the 1400+ then u need someone that can eat up millers load at 1200 draws.. so you either replace 1400-1700 faceoff in a 82 game season.. or you replace 1200 faceoff a season.. but you guys think it’s that simple just bumping up everyone’s faceoff attempts. 5% drop off in faceoff is no big deal it’s only 150 draws in 3000 attempts. Only 150 more possible possession the other team with have on our trash defence. No big deal. not to mention you ideally want miller to start in the offensive zone.. not the defensive zone.. which are majority of horvats faceoff.
  21. In the playoff? Pettersson? 1.05ppg vs 0.77? Or are we going to say he’s soft can’t play in the playoff etc etc? Looked good against 2 big teams in St. Louis and Vegas last I checked
  22. We can’t get a young rhd for miller.. we ain’t getting a young rhd for Horvat as a pending ufa. It’s ok we can trade him for pucks and picks and pray whoever unknown we replace with 100% work with this roster because you know Schmidt poolman dickinson all worked so well with Vancouver coz they were studs with their previous team. Let’s sign miller to the massive contract and then gamble on Horvat replacement will 100% be able to replace Horvat defensively on this team during millers limited prime years. people here keep talking about how good our piss poor defence was last year 5v5.. I dunno maybe winning the faceoff and starting with the puck played a significant factor into that? But it’s ok no one cares about his faceoff ability. He sucks coz he’s not a selke candidate
  23. Lol the Hughes RD experiment is over.. he didn’t look bad he looked lost and keep drifting back to the left all his points came in the preseason from the left side
  24. lol it'll cost u a 1st alone to dump both dickinson and poolman.. so you want severson for free?
  25. this deal really just pushed EP's next contract to be minimum 9.5mil if he has mediocre numbers like barzal the past numbers of years.. 65-70 points.. ya no EP is not going to sign for Miller's 8mil or less.. those that wanna argue might as well trade EP next year and start your rebuild. barzal a 65-70 point guy gets 9.15 which is 11% of 83.5mil cap.. EP will be looking at 9.5mil minimum when the cap is at 88mil which is around 11% anyone that doesn't understand the higher the cap the more the new contract is going to cost at the time of the new cap.. not whatever you guys think based on the most expensive guy we signed when the cap was 7-10% lower..
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