Canucks_fo_life

Facts.

Best owner, management group, fanbase and team.

My brother's dog told me to not listen to unverified sources....

Miss Lippy's car is green

Billy likes to drink soda.

what's the source?

Hroneck Rasmussen and 1st is a haul regardless of the year of the pick, can always flip the pick

We take that Detroit deal! lots of D in the 2024 draft

A little less than what I'm expecting... but if that is the best offer on the table, I'd take it. 

I don't know about Carlsson or Michkov, but Fantilli is definitely not NHL ready.

unless they choose 7th.

Conditional love is the very lifeblood of ineffective trolls!

Would that make JR a hater though from his comments when he almost sang Bruce there it is (while pointing at)

We are bragging about being out of the playoffs now? My goodness, expectations have fallen since the Sedins have left. Have some respect for yourself.

That may be well and true about boeser, but have you considered Kevin Fiala?

Do not want.

Getting rid of 2 locker room cancers should help their room a bit though.

Who cares,so long as we beat them

...the end.

The pacific in general is wide open! 

It really is. Who knows what Vegas will do, SJS starting a tank, Anaheim still in sell mode, LA climbing, Calgary who knows, they lost Johnny and are alienating Mangiapan.  Edmonton is probably better but who is playing D? 

Eberle is a good comparison I think to what the scouting reports are saying. He's light like a lot of the Swede kids but should fill out. 

Boudreau gets his 600th win tomorrow.  And Miller hits 100 points.  Petey hits 70 points.  

Just think about how Green never pulled out a winning record throughout his five seasons here...

Took an old guy coming out of retirement essentially to hire a legit NHL head coach.  We'd still have Green behind the bench with Benning as GM.  Seems like many NHL GMs have one fatal flaw.  With Brian Burke, it was his inability to get a starting NHL goalie (the one Stanley Cup he won as GM, he inherited that solid NHL starting goalie).

Boudreau...making the Canucks relevant again in the NHL.  I went from not giving a damn about the Canucks under Benning and Green to being fully vested under Boudreau's watch.  I hope the Hockey Ops execs exercise the option to bring Boudreau back next season and extend him.  Bring in the Swedish coach and have him work with Bruce for two seasons and groom him to be the next head coach when Bruce turns 70. Move Bruce into an Exec/Advisory role thereafter.  He is a solid hockey man.

@bigbadcanucks I wouldn't call it a long road ahead....  

We need to get one good d-man on the right side instead of the jambalaya of different experiments that we have right now.  If trading out Hamonic was possible, then Myers moving in the summer after his very stellar season is not that hard to imagine anymore.  

Playing at a 105 pace over 60 games is nothing to sneeze at. 

We're going to gain a bit of extra cap flexibility this off-season and hopefully refresh our stock or prospects by getting an extra pick or two in 2022 or 2023.  

I'm expecting a 100 point season from our guys next year, while coming in 2-3 million under the salary cap and not getting any older.  That is perfectly attainable and would be a nice accomplishment by Allvin and company. 

Yeah I'm hoping Bubble Demko comes back and a little early, just in time to go on a late season run, and then hopefully Brock and the reinforcements can return for an unexpected dark horse run.

Also agreed with @VancouverHabitant, the inefficient contracts remaining are Myers, Poolman, Dickinson and to lesser extent OEL (not including Pearson in this).  If we don't trade him, I think we could always repurpose Dickinson and pair him with a defensively capable 3rd C and another Motte-type on the other wing for a shutdown unit so the scorers can go out and focus on offense.  Myers can probably be moved with a mild sweetener, and maybe Poolman can go for a 4th or something.

agree the fact we are playing meaningful games is a win

I'm not a Vegas fan, but do note that they've had key injuries in their forwards in Stone and Pacioretty. Those guys would have probably made a difference. And Eichel seems like he's coming back to form so that trade's not looking too bad for them. 

@Vinny in Vancouver while it's true about their key injuries and it would've been hugely beneficial to have them, it's not like they have the cap space to fit them (esp. with the Dadonov Debacle).  Having Smith come off the books might offer some relief (as would actually trading the guy they call "Dad"), but it's still pretty tight considering Roy, Hague and Kolesar are all key RFA's.  To move Dad they might have to empty their cupboards again and even then it'll be a tight fit (plus they suffered with Lehner out, which shows how important he really is to them).

Clearly the Canucks need to take Shea Theodore off their hands for Brock Boeser.

@TNucks1 that's true they will never play to lose. I just find it odd to be proud of the what the team "accomplished" since December. Wins are nice and all, but the end result is that we hindered our draft pick while not making the playoffs. I don't think that's a good outcome, nor does it make someone less of a fan for viewing it that way.

Hopefully some savvy moves by management in the summer set this team up for long term success. Fingers crossed.

Arbitrary conclusions about what makes or doesn't make someone a fan are bull$&!# tbh

also think we would be ina playoff spot, if we didnt have that stupid break, because of covid and people attendance sh1t, AQ is to blame on that one.

No

The worst part is if we pull out just one more point from this weekend then we’re sitting pretty above the playoff line, and Edmonton is right in our sights. Oh well, just have to be patient. 

@Pears  I think it’s more a case of refs that are incompetent more than anything else.  Sure there are Kelly Sutherland types but imho, there are very few refs/officials that are good at their jobs anymore.

Blaming the league?  How 'bout the Canucks just aren't good enough?  This is still Benning's roster, what are we expecting?

If they hadn't shat the bed in the first five minutes they could have had a better result, but they came out slow like they have numerous times this season and paid for it. We also benefitted from a missed icing call. But yeah, easier to put it all on the refs. 

@Rubik The league knows their precious Knights are losing ground and they can’t have them miss the playoffs.  

instead of just calling the game, ref's "manage" the game. Ron McLean must have had a woody. 

The league won't start taking their officiating problem seriously until they're forced to by a judge.

Yes next 3 years has turn to 52 years of no cup lol.. 

I think a lot depends on what happens at the trade deadline, and at the draft. 

This team needs picks, cap room, speed, size and skill. We need a more balanced lineup. 

JB went for skill and the bigger teams walk over us. To be truthful I'm not even sure this team

can compete in 3 years. I hope I'm wrong. 

because they aren't very good

@rychicken By what standard are you judging it? Green's version of the Canucks wasn't very good. Boudreau has brought out a lot out of this team that was supposedly "not very good".

Certainly, if the team was built like trash, they wouldn't be competing with the better teams of the league, no? They'll just lose every single game like Green did.

Need to cop some cap to grab a Cup!

They may have been given the option, but knowing what happened last year ,Canucks may have decided not too?

I just don’t understand how they were allowed to play without fans and we couldn’t. And at the same time postpone our games when we weren’t getting hit by covid, but tell us to play on when we’re missing like 5 or 6 key guys. 

Lots of teams have played with less. Montreal, Ottawa, and NYI come to mind.

khl, here he comes.

He didn't work out in the KHL either.  I think Burger King is hiring.