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  1. No doubt those are the ugliest jerseys I have ever seen a Canucks team play in and that’s saying something. Hoping that’s a joke.
  2. https://thescoringtouch.com/2022/07/11/2022-non-qualified-rfas-list/
  3. The road is littered with teams that had a good core group but couldn’t effectively surround them and continually gave up picks for middling players. Those teams end up in the middle of the road category and never win f all and never draft high enough for an impact player.
  4. Every year teams get very good players for peanuts because they have the cap space to take them on without giving up much. That’s how the Canucks should be building. To get QUALITY players being dumped for garbage. The bonus is not only do you get comparable or better players than the garbage typically signed or traded for by the Canucks, you also get to fill the prospect pool by keeping your picks and adding more. Then you have more assets to trade to continue to fill out the team.
  5. Why would a late season hot streak after another crappy season give hope to anyone? It’s the same every year. Just enough to drop their draft position and give management false hope. This team is only close to the playoff bar because pretty much every team is thanks to loser points. The team as constructed is pretty horrible and would get shredded in the first round even if they made it. This team needs a true impact draft pick and a better overall strategy to give people hope. Better to lose than win at this point.
  6. So his main argument that it’s an opportunity to have a bunch of picks and a bunch of cap space to take advantage of cap strapped teams is somehow invalid? Teams will go crazy for the next shiny UFA object they always do. Teams that have cap space can get good players (or bad contracts plus high picks) those other GM’s have to jettison for peanuts to make room for their shiny new toy. The Canucks should have been doing this anytime during the last 8 years or so instead of giving out bloated contracts to UFA’s or trading picks for over the hill declining players. Should have been able to get OEL for nothing with that contract and his declining play and considering he would only go to Boston or Vancouver. No chance Boston was very interested. Realistically, operating at the cap while being a bottom feeder for nearly a decade and trading away picks for sub par players is just not even arguable as a viable strategy or a winning one. History shows that in no uncertain terms. Yet here we are continuing to think it is.
  7. But the ones who are completely averse to taking a true step back to start (finally) taking true steps forward ignore the fact that Petey and Hughes don’t want to be on a top team just from March to May every year. That’s not going to be enough for them to want to be here. The reality is pretty much every year this team craps the bed for 3/4 of the season and only starts winning games when they no longer matter. That’s not being a winning team and it certainly isn’t the moral victory the players need to learn to win next year. You guys and Canucks management have been saying that for what 8 years now? Have they actually learned anything other than they need to do just enough to keep their jobs for it to be good enough? Injuries are part of hockey. The good teams actually have the ability to fill those holes. Either through creating cap space and changing out personnel or through a strong farm system. The Canucks never manage to do or have either. A guy like Bedard would instantly buy the Canucks time to fix some very big issues. But it’s more important they win meaningless games to somehow show they are really a good contending team with bad luck? They aren’t. The team as constructed is pretty terrible and has been for a long time. Trading picks like candy is and has been the problem. Although somewhat understandable since they always seem to pick the wrong players anyway unless they are a slam dunk at whatever spot the Canucks are picking. Even then they screw it up half the time.
  8. No chance any player would say that unless they are already demanding a trade.
  9. No player wants to have a long painful rebuild. Allowing a couple of players to determine which direction you go is stupid though. Same as it was when they tried to prop up the team for the Sedins. You don’t continue the same direction when it hasn’t worked for 10 years. That’s just insanity. I laugh at anyone (including Hughes) who says with a straight face this roster is anywhere close to being competitive. He of course has to say that but I doubt it’s how he really feels.
  10. With a NMC can he even be bought out?
  11. If an option to trade him was to the Canucks I would agree lol
  12. Your status as a homer fan is god tier. The term homer fan is not an offensive one in my world. It’s just a fan who always sees the good no matter the reality and believes in management no matter the actual outcomes over time. It’s not a negative thing it’s just a different way of being a fan. At least to me.
  13. He’s not a 5 mil dman to any team we would be able to trade him to.
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