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  1. when has this team NOT had injuries coming out of camp? there will always be roster space for more than 23.
  2. I actually wouldn't be surprised if it happened after the RFA's get signed and teams have a better idea of their financial outlook.
  3. I agree and I bet they make the tweak within a year or two when they realize the mistake.
  4. yes, it does, since for nearly the last 25 years the most prominent use of the word has been associated with one.
  5. MAKE SURE YOU YELL LOUD ENOUGH THAT EVERYONE HEARS
  6. which is exactly why the trade would never happen in the first place.
  7. remember when he scored that own goal in his first game for the team and you thought, "well, it can only go up from here ..." yeesh. it's hard not to feel bad for the guy.
  8. hopefully loaned to the moose or some equally awful locale that isn't affiliated with the canucks at all.
  9. all i know for sure is that for the first time in probably 7 years, I'm more excited for the season than I was for the offseason.
  10. especially since the actual dollars left on gaborik's deal are substantially less than eriksson's too, not just the cap number.
  11. rumour has it he already has a house here, too ...
  12. I respect the hell out of the sedins, and their sportsmanship and resolve to put up with boatloads of abuse while always turning the other cheek is paramount to that. at the same time, I want a team that takes the bait and even initiates, too. not only is it more entertaining, but I honestly believe that the elevated emotion and intensity level that that style of hockey brings is necessary to bring out the best in the players and to ultimately succeed.
  13. of course. and what I'm saying is, by showing brock a sign of good faith now (not fighting him on term, allowing him to have that ufa leverage when his deal is up), maybe he'll be inclined not to wield it like a hammer when the time comes. if they fight him hard now, when they have all the real leverage, you bet your ass they'll be fighting him hard forever, since he'll have all the leverage moving forward.
  14. or maybe there's enough trust and understanding between the two sides, in addition to a mutual desire to keep him in vancouver for his entire career, that the team can afford throw brock a bone.
  15. miller boeser-horvat-pettersson hughes ferland gaudette/virtanen-baertschi/pearson edler-myers
  16. well duh, so would everyone. that isn't -- and won't be -- on the table, though. in fact, without taking back a lucic-sized problem in return, it will COST picks or prospects to offload him on another team.
  17. people debating the on-ice pros and cons of lucic vs eriksson are missing the point. yes, loui is a more versatile player, and if these guys were robots that merely played hockey, you probably wouldn't want to trade that versatility for looch's hits and face punching. they're not robots, though, so there's more important things to consider. -lucic has said he'd love to play here; eriksson's recent talk is tantamount to the opposite. -lucic has the potential to endear himself to the fans; eriksson being here is toxic. -lucic would pull in the same direction as the rest of the team and would always give a $&!#; eriksson clearly doesn't care. -lucic would contribute to the canucks newly-defined identity; eriksson takes away from it. I'd rather have a guy who might be minutely less useful but who badly wants to be here, rather than a guy who pk's well and can skate but is going to sulk and poison the well of a group that is starting to really come together.
  18. it's not about the results, it's about the message being sent that they're going to try.
  19. because 90% of the fans and media in this market (or at least the ones who voice their opinions publicly) are completely incapable of seeing the forest for the trees, simply because they didn't like individual deals as they happened because they aren't professional sports managers who have a clue what's going on.
  20. nobody said he was just letting the old core die. he was transitioning it to the new core, and he didn't want horvat, virtanen, mccann, stecher, baertschi, vey, granlund and hutton to develop in a defeatist, loser environment where nobody in the room believed they had a sniff at the playoffs.
  21. no. he simply recognized what point in the lifecycle the roster he was overtaking was at and did what he had to do to get to where we are now. moving on from kesler, garrison, hamhuis, higgins, etc. wasn't taking a last stab at glory. he filled in the age and roster gaps as best he could with his hands tied by long term contracts that either nobody wanted or that had NMC/NTC.
  22. no. benning's mandate or plan was never another kick at the can, but he inherited the roster that he inherited, and that's what it was built for.
  23. you don't consider turning over 20 of 23 roster spots and going from a rapidly declining, last kick at the can team to a rapidly rising, contending for the playoffs team, including bottoming out entirely in the middle, in 5 offseasons, a quick turnaround?
  24. would you rather: 1) eat some pasta or 2) sell your used cell phone ?
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