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Everything posted by kilgore
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Canucks Win! Canucks Win!
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Rau! WOOOOOOOO!
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WOOOOOOOOO! Wolanin! 2 - 1
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Radio! TV! Radio! TV!
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Give your head a shake. I'm for the Kraken to get their feet wet, and its fun cheering on our PN bros right now. Get more new Seattle hockey fans to cheer against. But winning against Dallas would be the last series I want them to win. I want a slow built rivalry with Seattle. I want us to meet a few times in the playoffs. To think that we finally get a NW rival, and right off the bat, they get to rub a Cup in our faces? Forever. Before we even get started with them? That we have to go into their arena after this season with a Stanley Cup Championship banner hanging from their rafters? That their fans can mock us with going forward? An expansion team in their second season, just down the road? That it doesn't matter if there are periods where we get better, and they decline, like has happened with the next closest rivals, Calgary and Edmonton. And where their fans can always point up to the rafters no matter how much we thrash them. I'm used to suffering in the sad club here. And I can withstand a lot of pain as a Canucks fan. But please Hockey Gods don't pile this on top of the heap to deal with.
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Sign the petition https://chng.it/wwCtqpg5XP Write Keith Wachtel: keith.wachtel@nhl.com "Every game, every night. This is the new norm," said Keith Wachtel, the NHL's chief business officer and executive vice president of global partnerships." We can stop this just like we did the blue puck. But people have to take some action. To be fair, I think fans could compromise. No changing ads or animations during play.
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However hammering him about his drafting in the first round because of Juolevi simply isn't fair. Its the one area he was consistently good in. I think you mean....didn't $%^& up entirely. His few good picks, mostly when Brackett was in charge, only stand out to give his amateur drafting a polish, making him look good in comparison to every other aspect of managing an NHL team. Petey was a slight gamble. But Hughes was a slam dunk where he landed. Benning was pretty average if you balance out hits and misses for top ten, and those who haven't proven themselves yet. His dismal record in landing gems in later rounds wasn't anything to brag about. Hardly consistent. But as you alluded to, it was his management that was the real problem. It does no good even with above average drafting ability, which wasn't the case with Jim IMO, you still need to keep and develop players. You can't really separate the two things. One could argue that his first draft of 2014 was his most potentially* successful in that department even with the Virtanen miss. McCann, Forsling, Demko, and Tryamkin. Too bad he f'd up the #6 pick with Nylander, Ehlers, Fiala, and Larkin still on the board. But even the other drafted players could have been a nice beginning to a new core if he and Aquaman had a different mind set. * Especially if he had also added any of those other players available instead of Lazy Jake at #6. If he'd simply kept all his picks and developed the ones he had, bonus if he'd stocked up on extra picks, JB could have been a God here if he'd just done things right from the beginning. Benning was a lazy arrogant pos when he played here, and a lazy arrogant pos as a GM. "day to day", "we ran out of time"....In way over his head. Excerpt from Wiki, The Canucks, according to coach Bob McCammon, however, found greater success without Benning in their lineup, though it was "no reflection on him."[23]Benning believed he was playing well, resulting in confusion between the two sides.[23] Following a streak of nine consecutive games scratched from the Canucks' lineup, the team requested that Benning be demoted to their International Hockey League affiliate Milwaukee Admirals, although he declined. And then, 24 years later, our idiot owner brings this guy back and hires him as a first time GM.
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I'd think Dallas in 6. People don't really want the Kraken to go far right? Give their fans a taste. I like that because it builds their fan base, and will help create a louder more passionate rivalry. But a first round win will do for now. How would folks feel if the unthinkable happened? If the Kraken won the Cup? I know I know, near impossible, but imagine the Kraken winning the Cup before us. I can't even.... Francis constructed 4 big great/good lines and 3 good D pairings. No stars, just a bunch of players who just needed more ice time to milk the potential they never quite reached yet McCann, Dunn,. Or to get another jump start like Eberle and Gourde. Character players like Tanev. Plus guaranteed high picks and no anchor contracts to deal with. Being able to roll out four above average lines almost equally, with no passengers, is a perfect playoff style team, once they are all on board with a good system. I think expansion teams should be in a comparable position as a team entering a rebuild. Not sure how that would happen to mimic the same conditions, but they should have to go through more growing pains. Maybe give other teams more ways to block the expansion team from taking a player they don't want them to. Limit their choices for more quality veterans, but increase their guaranteed spot for picks for a few years, or give them more extra picks to start. They should start as a mostly young unproven team with a few grizzled vets to keep them in line. Should be at least 5 years before they get a sniff at a playoff round, unless they really luck out with their picks. Maybe I'm just a bitter old disgruntled Canucks fan
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So many classics RIP Gordon
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While its true anything can happen. Including winning it all. But a lot of things have to fall in place. Other top teams taking themselves out. Key injuries on your opponents team. A relative lack of injury on your key players. Your goaltender is on a hot streak. And the ever deciding factor; the bounces. And this has to happen to a degree with all four series you face. FYI The Kings were the first, as well as the last eighth-seeded team to win the Stanley Cup since the conference-based seedings were introduced in 1994, to win the Cup Hey, it could happen, but its like the odds of an 11th place draft lottery holder landing at #1. The surest, most painful way, is a strip down rebuild, with owners and management in on the sabotage. Gee, funny how Anaheim could lose the last 12 games. Benning blew that chance with his and Aqua's belief in the "just get in" theory. And even though he also made a few bone headed top ten picks, his pathetic management keeping us in that top ten eventually landed us Petey and Hughes. Now....we have almost a complete foundational young core. Even though a retool is more of a gamble than a rebuild, it makes more sense at this point in time with the Canucks. At least way more sense than during Bennings tenure. Its still more difficult, but we would literally be throwing the babies out with the bathwater if we gave up on this core now, and start over. But its still not about squeaking in and anything can happen. A good retool can work, but there has to be smart management who can recognize how too add value and get rid of value draining assets. I think we have that now. Evidence in a few of the deals they have done. The Stillman trade was the only one that sticks out as a mistake.