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EP with 2nd best FO % on the team at 55.2% :D
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If you're bored and want some good hockey memories:
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Anyone else think Evan Bouchard looks a tad like John Tavares?
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Dream scenario: EP and JD smash it up next season and HS DS and MN convince EK to come sign with us.
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@smithers joe we want botchford
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Will Hughes still be at the Young Stars?
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Have you ever forgiven your bullies from the past or been forgiven by your victims of bullying?
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If Hughes signs and goes to Young Stars, then WOW. Roster would include: Dahlen, Pettersson, Juolevi, Lind, Dipietro, Hughes, Gadjovich, Gaudette.
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Random thought: Kadri for Tanev and Sutter?
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@Fateless sure, doesn't change how your other arguments were poorly thought out. Also your dismissive and idiotic comment about weed not being legal.
Loui Eriksson was 31 when he signed his contract and his slower style of game wasn't a fit. That's not a good analogy. That and being 6 million bucks a year for 6 years knowing you can't be moved. Kadri is no Eriksson so I just don't get why you're pushing that so hard to crap on him. Kadri is a decent player who has wheels and Christ, as I pointed out, Kadri isn't scoring only because of his line mates. Nor am I suggesting we ship out Dahlen for Kadri. How does it help? Grit, toughness, scoring? All three things everyone was complaining about last year. Oh man.
I'm not even that invested in the idea, I'm just completely baffled by how blind and biased some Canuck fans are.
Not even going to comment on Pettersson. If you watched the World Championships you'd know he's a player. Already creative than Backlund. Won't be a super star next season, but he'll be a heck of a player.
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@NHL'er - The pot comment was clearly a joke. I apologize for your feelings getting hurt.
Its not about being biased towards Kadri. He's a good player. He just doesn't fit on this team (in relation to how much we'd be giving up to acquire him). He's going to be a productive player for another 3-5 years. The problem is that by the time our team is contending for a cup, he won't be productive anymore. 27 isn't old, but its too old for the core that our team is building. By the time Pettersson is in his prime (24 years old), Kadri will be 32(?) and well past his prime. Then Kadri is just taking up roster space and likely on an overpaid contract (assuming he plays as well as you think he will for the next few years and Benning hands out his usual bloated contract extension) while we're trying to load up the team with complementary pieces.
I stand by my Eriksson example. No one thought he was going to regress the way he has. He'd just come off his best scoring season in his career. He met the criteria you're claiming we want Kadri for (grit, toughness, and scoring). Yes I know that he was further along in his aging curve and had a higher risk of regression, but my point is that the aging curve isn't an exact science and the further Kadri gets along that curve, the more likely the bottom falls out of his career.
Not to mention he's like to have a career ending injury over the next season or two considering how much he's disliked - particularly if he puts on a Vancouver Canucks jersey. Then we REALLY wasted Tanev and Sutter.
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Feel like you'd appreciate my new signature
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Mandžukić remind anyone else of Vrbata?
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Whoa @c00kies are we SURE they're not related?? The resemblance is uncanny.
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@Phil_314 haha that's what I thought too. Maybe he has a second identity
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CROATIA!! Glad England didn't win. They would have just gotten drunk and destroyed crap everywhere.
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Someone needs to do a remake of this but with the Canucks :')
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"We still believe, we still believe
It's coming home,
It's coming home, it's coming
Stanley's coming home
It's coming home,
It's coming home, it's coming
Lord Stanley is Coming home"Music video is in Stanley Park
@Canuck Clay when we get a better team would you up for something like this
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Would you trade Gudbranson back for McCann right now?
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Beagle had a better faceoff % than both Toews and Bergeron last season. Just sayin
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Interesting to note: None of Roussel, Schaller, Beagle were drafted. Worked their butts off to get where they are today and aren't guys who take anything for granted.
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@Undrafted Me and you are a perfect combo. You first of course
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Chris Tanev for Captain for one interim season next year before passing it on to Bo / whoever is worthy?
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@coastal.view give Tanev the C just to make botchford shut up about trading him
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Hope people will soon get over Jett's last name and get on board with the fact we've got a Matt Dumba-esque hockey player.
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@Brad Marchand as long as it's not the same as Edler
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For comparisons sake, Hughes out scored Makar in his draft year versus Makar’s draft + 1 year.
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Can't wait until Juolevi shuts everyone up with his play
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And this job, this last job, that's how I get there. I would not be standing here if I knew any other way.
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Just coming to realise just how atrocious MG's drafting was. Even taking into account that we were contenders during that time. So glad we have JB
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Problem is for a while we were never the worst team in the league, just meh. This was before there was a lottery for the 1st round (where finishing dead last meant you did get the first overall pick). Could mean the difference between getting a guy like Gilbert Perrault instead of Dale Tallon. Look how the Pens got Lemieux, Crosby, and Malkin.
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@NewbieCanuckFan I don't buy that. If you suck at drafting and developing you find a way to suck: Nugent Hopkins, Yakupov.
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Suck at developing? Schneider didn't suddenly get better after being traded to New Jersey. Sedins didn't become Art Ross winners overnight nor Kesler a Selke winner immediately. Gillis was lucky he inherited a good coach. Who heard of Bieksa before he became a legit top 4 guy or Tanev. A shame Gillis couldn't draft well to sustain the teams success.
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Side note, what happened to CDC for the past two days?
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In your opinion, was Brendan Morrison a first line centre in his prime?
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Go Knights Go! Hate the Jets. Loving how the "outcasts" are beating the spoiled rich kids.
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Outcasts?
Buttman gives them a sweetheart deal in the draft, and in addition allows Vegas to do side deals so instead of taking good players that were available, they allow them to do side deals.
The only outcasts in Vegas is the GM and their coach. The coach was fired by their stupid GM in Florida.
The GM was fired because he made a boneheaded deal with Nashville.
There's no outcasts. That's all media spewing garbage on an NHL spin.
This is not Columbus/Minnesota type expansion where they got 4th line plugs and are on some plucky luck with a former 1st overall goaltender.....