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  1. Already a fan of the guy & he hasn't even had a single shift with the Canucks yet.
  2. It's not different when the Pens dealt Sutter for Bonino. Not that they thought Sutter was garbage/ready for the glue factory. But he became too expensive for their cap structure (eg., pay their primo players the big money & try to make do with what's left to fill-out the rest of the roster). That's what alot of people seem to disregard. The Pens let McCann go not because they thought he was a failure. It was the opposite. He played well enough to make himself too expensive to keep. Happened with Bonino as well (remember how well he worked with Kessel in the post-season?). Bonino priced himself out of their roster from his (good) play. He's not a core player but still was a solid player. So he had to go just like McCann had to go. And of course, why Sutter had to go in their lineup. Reason why Horvat had to go (especially with the year he was having). Too expensive to re-sign so you deal him. Imho, he's not a 'core player'. Hughes, EP & JT are core players. You open the vault for those guys. Then try to "fill-out" the roster with what's left. If you give Horvat a mega-contract, there won't be enough cap left to do that (as you're bound to make at least one mistake eating cap space as everyone makes mistakes).
  3. I'll be honest as well. Of the "big three" in Laffland, I thought this "creampuff" would be the weak link. I was completely wrong. Not that I think he's Ted Lindsay, but the other two are post-season 'no shows'. At least he 'shows up'.
  4. I think Grabner might be the only notable one from BC/Western Canada since like forever (ok, I'll give Delorme actual legit credit for that one). I could be wrong but wasn't Bieksa playing in the US collegiate system before he was drafted by us?
  5. Kesler was basically close to "NHL ready" when he was drafted. McCann, while offensively skilled, still needed to develop.
  6. Yeah he was "dealt a bad hand' but he 'played that hand poorly'.
  7. I'm not sure Toe Blake could've done anything to help Virtanen.
  8. Willie D locked himself out while leaving his key inside the house with his 1-2-3-4 line management in that post-season. Even three year olds know you start to double shift and/or lean more on the vets during the playoffs.
  9. Our US amateur scouts have generally been good. Same as our European amateur scouts. Canadian amateur scouts? Nepotism at its finest.
  10. Fellow Canadians ("Edge" & "Christian" trolling actual Raider football players who had virtually front row seats lol).
  11. Nope. I never felt safe even if the Canucks had the lead with Cloutier in net. Crawford was his biggest fan given that once Crow got to be head coach of the Kings, Cloutier was dealt to them not long after. Thanks Crow, we got a 2nd & 3rd round pick out of that even though Nonis' hands were tied having just acquired Luongo & having goalies under contract before Cloutier was dealt of something like 8 million in cap space when the cap was just in the mid-thirty million. Like when Luongo confidence was shot. There was a time when we had the lead with Luongo in net, you know that was an automatic "W". Things wasn't the same after he literally took a huge dump in that Ducks game in OT.
  12. And yet they kept Jake. Well I guess it wasn't his bad attitude..he was just bad.
  13. Seems to be a better winger than a center & the Pens used him as such (for obvious reason, given their lineup at the time). Better off for him to have spent time on the Pens. He wasn't going to learn anything under Willie.
  14. Look no further than Eddie Lack. His numbers looked pretty good when Ryan Miller was the acknowledged starter. But as soon as *he* was the starter (on another team to be fair), he came back down to Earth. Far less pressure (imho) to be the backup (even if you end up playing a fair number of games).
  15. It doesn't get mentioned enough but Vigneault *DID* have a way with developing players. And not just on the Canucks but on the Moose when he was coach there. Guys like Bieksa, Burrows, Hansen, etc., and even Tanev didn't get drafted/signed as "finished products". Heck, he was even able to get a guy like Kyle Wellwood to check. Sure, nobody would give him a Selke vote but Wellwood was able to adjust his game to take advantage of his strengths to improve his play without the puck. He wasn't just a coach that relied on his goalie to win him his games.
  16. Didn't Willie get his first permanent NHL head coaching gig (unfortunately it had to be us ) when he was in his mid-fifties? AV retired from NHL head coaching at what age? In his early 60s?
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