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Looks like I’ll be watchin’ a bit of college hockey over the next few years. Quite enjoyed following Quinn at Michigan before he joined us.

Ngl, pretty jealous of the teams that got to double-dip in the first round.

Yeah, this sounds very promising. I don’t expect many, if any, parallels to OJ.

Let’s just hope that Willy has a work ethic and a level of dedication that OJ never displayed.

Hope he’s right about Simashev too, lol.

Chicago, hate them all you want, have another couple of bookend talents to build on now, just like Kane and Toews. They are likely heading towards being another powerhouse in a handful of years. Kinda sickening.

Sure hope C. Button is right about Willander. I’ll admit, he gained a ton of respect from me when he absolutely nailed the Virtanen evaluation.

Yeah, more Moritz and less OJ please.

We’re bound to hit on one of these Euro D-men eventually…right?

Canuck Luck to an absolute freakin’ tee. Yet Canuck Nation (the younger portion at least) remaining so plucky thinking we actually might win this time.

If Bedard proves to be generational, I’d say they were pretty damned smart.

Nah, if we finished bottom 5 we at least had a legit chance. Vancouver must be running pretty short of tinfoil with all of these conspiracy types in the thread. If the thing was rigged, he’d be going to Arizona in another Bettman attempt to save that sad sack situation.

Sorry, but McDavid to Edmonton disproved that theory years ago.

Gonna be fun watching the hometown Vancouver kid abuse us for years to come. But hey, it was so worth it going on that late season run this past season, wasn’t it? LOLOLOL.

Your homerism knows no bounds.

Lol, was there any doubt these guys were going to Canuck their way to torpedoing their draft lottery odds? This was pretty much the most Canuck season ever.

Came in here to see the talk around Livingstone only to read about Sutter and the Flames, lol.

This is the right view to take in my opinion. His skating, which looks just ok vs. his college peers will look less so in the NHL. But, the more prospects we have in the cupboard the better. Apart from his skating the kid has other, very worthy tools applicable to the NHL. They get this done, that’s a feather in the cap of this management group…who slowly, so slowly, are emerging from my personal doghouse.

Trust me, I WANT to be wrong about JT. Since it looks like he’s here for many more years.

Why didn’t EP or Hughes quit then? Character. Pride.

He probably knew very well JT would not react well at all to public criticism. And let’s face it, he’s one prickly pear. Look at other members of our “core”….none of them had the sudden uptick in quality of play once Bruce was fired like JT did. Character wise, I’d put EP far above. And people think JT is captain material. It could be entertaining….in the way some people find car crashes entertaining I suppose. These are my thoughts currently. But I’m open to having my mind changed.

My biggest issue with JT is that he clearly quit on Boudreau.

God help us if he’s the heart.

I think the issues I have with Miller are mostly character ones, as I generally like his game. To dog it so bad at times under Boudreau, then suddenly flip a switch and work so much harder under Tocchet….hard to really buy into a guy who might have a bit of “coach killer” in him. This is in addition to all other things swirling about in terms of whether he’s liked by his teammates, etc. People in his corner tout his “fiery” persona, whereas I’m more likely to view him a bit of a jack ass. Not sure I’m especially keen on 7 more years of his act. And thus it’s why I wouldn’t be too shook if he’s gone today. Put the chances of it happening at around 20% though, so I’d better start trying to reconcile my feelings with this player, eh? It does seem as though he’s been on his “best behaviour” under Tocchet. But what about the next coach? And the way we go through coaches, the one after that?

We just about won the lottery - well we kinda did, got 2nd - just now on TSN when they simulated the actual ping pong ball draft lottery process.