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  1. At this point tough to say. In a seven game series I'd bet on St. Louis. Against a run and gun like Vegas, not sure - although I think we have better structure than Vegas. Run and gun against the Avs I'd take Mackinnon - though the Canucks may be able to muscle out a win in a seven game series. As far as the rest of the Pacific - Calgary has a better rounded back end - up front I'd say we're more playoff like on our top end. Looking forward to see how they match up against Boston on this coming road trip.
  2. Duncan Keith. I know some people will lose their poop with the comparison, but Quinn skates, defends, walks the line, gets pucks through, head mans and covers D-zone much like a young Keith - minus the dirty part....
  3. Agreed. The first hit seemed like direct contact to the head. Where is the suspension on that one? I liked how Kassian took it into his own hands but I'm old-school. I had no idea that Tkchuck Jr. was such a gutless wimp. I believe this is the start of what will be a fairly swift process to have fighting removed from the game. I've said for some time now that when Cherry goes so will fighting. Too much liability for the league and potential life-long health concerns for the players.
  4. Intermission commentary folk picked up on this one - thought Edler was trying to fill a gap instead of remembering the possibility of the guy lying on the ice that he had just stapled. Good on Buchnivech for getting up and in the play so quick. Edler likely thought he was out of the play.
  5. Agreed. At a recent clinic I was at they are told only to go on butts or bobbles. I keep hoping for a butt or bobble so they attack.
  6. Chicago used to run that system under Quenville - it was the first things Jeremy changed when he took over.... I don't love it at the pro-level, too many variables and skill for things to go wrong. At the Atom level it's gold cause most kids can't shoot or pass yet. It seems to suit our 2nd and 3rd lines better than our 1st and 4th lines - who look to be roping the dope a lot.
  7. My guess is Al Arbour. At the coaches clinic last June Green told a couple stories involving Al - he seems to have had a fair bit of influence on Travis.
  8. The only useful part of that article is whether or not the Canucks need two shutdown lines. As far as that goes, the successful teams these days don't seem to emply a shut-down line of any kind in the traditional sense - 3rd and 4th lines for 3rd and 4th round teams drive play, pressure the opposition and score goals to chip in. Analytics is for failed GMs and basement dwellers (see nee Florida and Arizone, presently Toronto). You don't hear too much about analicktick darlings in the 3 and 4th round of the playoffs. Smart GMs see it as information, but real hockey trumps 85% of the time. There are too many compounding variables in hockey to make cause and effect statistics reliable for hockey. It works for baseball, since most plays are cause and effect - 1 person affecting 1 person affecting an outcome. Hockey has 12 variables (players) plus referees on the ice at any given time - most statistics can't handle this type of math. When considering such a high number of variables your starting to get in to the mad science of climate change, and we all know how messed up that is.
  9. It's hard to grasp why people are so critical of Sutter. If it's just an injury thing - fine. As a player though, he's perty darn good when healthy. With Bo and Elias in front he'll be even better. If people don't grasp this they probably play ringette - or worse, roller hockey.
  10. Kadri - no. I can't see anyone willing to take on Kadri - the guy is turning in to something worse than Avery. Kapanen is a possibility and it might not take an offer sheet. A second round pick in compensation though would be a steal for that guy. IMO the Leafs made a big mistake signing Nylander so big and so long. Marner drives that team - with buckets of cash dumped on Matthews and Tavares, it's hard to see how the Laughs plan to keep Kapanen (and maybe Johnsson). The Laughs have 3.7 mill in cap space for next season, and that's without signing two D men (Gardiner and Hainsey are UFA) and Marner - who again, I think is the MVP on that team. He deserves something real close to Tavares and Matthews.
  11. Agreed. I think the internal rankings have gotten much better. It wasn't that long ago that a guy would Kopitar would fall out of the top ten because of the Euro image. Times have changed.
  12. I was bored and looked at the last 15 years of draft # 9, 10, & 11 respectively. Whatever mindset the scouting staff needs to consider guys written in bold would be good. I'm guessing the Canucks' internal ranking system has gotten much better in recent years, thus the team won't be swayed much by central scouting. The ability to buck central scouting trends seems an important factor for drafting success - particularly outside of the top 3. Also, BPA would help to keep position specific blinders off - tending toward overvaluing due to positional need. 2004: (9) Smid, )10) Valabek, (11) Tukonen ---- drafted afterward in the 1st round >>> Dubniyk, Radulov, Green, Schneider 2005: Lee, Bourdon, Kopitar ---- Rask, Oshie, Niskanen 2006: Sheppard, Frolik, J. Bernier ---- Little, Giroux, Varlamov, Foligno 2007: Couture, Ellerby, B. Sutter ---- Paciorety, Backlund, Perron, McDonagh 2008: Bailey, Hodgson, Beech ---- E. Karlsson, Myers, Eberle, J. Carlson 2009: Cowen, Paajarvi-Svensson, Ellis ---- Krieder, Palmeiri 2010: M. Granlund, Mcllrath, Campbell ---- Swartz, Tarasenko, Hayes, Kuznetsov, Fowler 2011: D. Hamilton, Brodin, Siemens ---- J.T. Miller, Rackell 2012: Trouba, Koekkoek, Forsberg ---- Hertl, Terraveinen, Vasilevsky 2013: Horvat, Nichuchkin, Morin ---- Domi, Morrissey, Theodore 2014: Ehlers, Ritchie, Fiala ---- Larkin, Vrana, Kapanen, Pastrnak 2015: Meier, Rantanen, Crouse ---- Debrusk, Connor, Chabot, Boeser 2016: Sergachev, Jost, Brown ---- Mcavoy, Borgstrom 2017: Rasmussen, Tippett, Valardi ---- Brannstrom, Thomas, Jokiharju, Tolvanen 2018: Kravstov, Bouchard, Wahlstrom ---- too early
  13. Daniel Rahimi and Patrick White for Christian Erhoff and Brad Lukowich....
  14. Another example of how university is mostly a meaningless credential that applies privilege and namesake but little else. Much like private schools, I've met far more dummies in the private system than the public - only the private system let's you rub shoulders with and get sweet heart contracts from your rich buddies. Go get a trade or perform a service, read Chaucer and Marx on your own time.
  15. This will be a major factor in whether or not I continue to support Benning moving forward. It seems unfathomable that they would let him play 11 games and risk losing someone else come the expansion. It's an easy, free, get-outta-jail, protect an extra D card. 13 games left for the Canucks - should be easy to sit him for 2 or 3..... Now, should the Canucks go 13 and 0 in the next dozen then it's a whole different matter!
  16. I hope Tanev gets traded. He's great when healthy, which would be OK on a team deep with defensemen, but we need our d-men to play. Tanev's value is slipping, and slipping, and slipping.... Tyler Myers??????
  17. I'm not seeing a deep contender yet but I agreed with the steady progression. Feels like our group is stable, and still growing in to various roles. We've been hovering around the league median for most of the year which is pretty darn good for a team in transition. It seems to me that a deep contending team requires a really good D or O, and we're not there yet on either front. Curious what people think we are closer to rounding out - our forward group or defense group. Looking at other teams considered deep - leaving Tampa out because they are an extreme outlier on the very, very deep and skilled end of things. Teams like Pitts, Wash, Tor, Winn, Nash, SJ generally have 5-4 lethal scoring threats? Canucks to me are 2 offensive threats away.... On D - when the six are healthy - I'm seeing a pretty stable core - just lacking the 2 or 3 puck moving offensive threats that most good teams seem to have. To me a guy like Hutton is developing in to what many deep teams have - 2-3 solid defenders who can jump up and chip in on the O when appropriate.
  18. Babych 2.0? that would be great!
  19. It's funny, when Burke was commenting on Hughes 'small body' over and over P. Kane came to mind in his draft year. Watching Hughes highlights I kept seeing a D with forward like dangles and skating. I was skeptical about the D going in (thinking we were on the Dobson or Bouchard path), but now that I'm seeing what Hughes brings I think we got real, real lucky. I guess Detroit had no choice and had to take Zadina - I'm still pretty shocked though that they passed on an elite puck moving d-man. We are fortunate that the Yotes have such a heart-on for analytics - and that they already have OEL.
  20. Sautner is reminding me of a young Kevin Bieksa.
  21. This will end up being a good deal. Length is good, amount is high for me, but on a rebuilding team with a low cap it won't matter. The contract makes him traded easily if it ends up that way, but with little in the defensive cupboards that's highly unlikely. Does this mean that Benning has found a buyer for Tanev?
  22. Watching the Royals in Victoria, Matthews never gets hit - unless he's getting dummied in front of the net. Similar to Gaudreau, it's very hard to actually nail the guy anywhere away from the net. Nice work Cole!!!
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