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  1. They first need to fix that defense. You cant win a cup with Schenn, Bouroughs, Hunt all in your regular lineup. Am hoping he brings Devon Toews when his contract is up to replace Myers. Maybe try and trade for Pesce or Severson and really build a cup contending defensive core in front of a vezina caliber goalie like Demko. Adding a tough guy or a pest is like the last piece you add to a cup contending team.
  2. Well I think being a fast team will make us a better team and size should be secondary to that. If you have speed as a 2nd criteria then you are doing it wrong, just look at Avs Carolina, Vegas etc. they all play a speedy game. I think size will be a factor thats looked at if the players we get check the box for speed and skill.
  3. The media is becomung stupider in Vancouver. I mean the question abput Jake Virtanen? Completely unrelated and stupid to bring up in this press conference and its for the police to handle, outside of Canucks jurisdiction.
  4. Look for guys like Pearson, Hamonic, Schenn and Chaisson to be moved during the deadline for picks depending on where we are in the standing. I see Rutherford moving sliw guys and replacing them with speedier players as he talked about our team speed being issues. We just have way too many slow players. Am thinking he will mould our team similar to teams that are speedy like Avs, Carolina, Vegas etc.
  5. People here need to realize just how bad Baumgartner was as an assistant coach teaching our guys how to defend. Scott Walker and Shaw (which idiot Green didnt use) are instrumental to fixing our PK and how aggreasive the D plays especially on gap control, standing up at the blue line and attacking the puck carrier and not allowing them time and space versus just backing up, allowing space for the attacker to pass or shoot or skate. Baumgartner was teaching beer league defense suited for mediocre dmen that only know how to block shots. It was so putrid to see our D play under Green. Now even a guy like Hunt or Poolman look like actual NHL defenders. This has also helped Demko as it has decreased dangerous chances against.
  6. If you see the standing, we are not that far from a team like Oilers. We are like 6 points behind Oilers who are in the 3rd spot. The pacific division is not that strong. Aside from Vegas the others could collapse and go into a huge losing streak. Look at those invincible Flames, they lost 4 in a row. And everyone knew Oilers would falter after their PP stops scoring 3 to 4 goals each game since they are the worst team 5 on 5. Anaheim is on a high and they are a young time, its unpredictable if they will make the playoffs or not. San jose and LA are sinking and Seattle is behind us. People here were making it sound so impossible to make playoffs with 51 games to go. A lot can happen in those 51 games. Canucks not only have gain their confidence back, some players are having career years like Demko and Hughes. Pettersson and Boeser have woken up and Poolman logged 24 minutes against the Canes and won. So it seems they have some underrated players now and are playing as a team. I see the win streak as real and not a fluke at all. Change in offensive and defensive style, improving PK and PP, gaining back confidence. The 4 game win streak is more indicative of our team's potential not the way we played under a crappy coach like Green. I see the way we play is sustainable. The expected goals for is now at 2.80 vs. 2.15 under Green.
  7. Dude what are you talking about? The Canucks couldnt kill a penalty 2 weeks ago, nevermind win a game even against weak teams. Now we can kill penalties against the best team, tie them in shots and outscore them. It was Carolina Hurricanes who can win even in back to back games, look at their record.
  8. Green so garbage that Bruce tied Green's 15 games point total in 4 games. I wished we had not signed Green in off season and signed Bruce instead. Baumgartner should not teach hockey again, should just retire from NHL and work at McDonalds as a cashier.
  9. If there are still Green fans backing up Green, they need a slap in the face. Same with the media which keeps praising Green like he won multiple cups.
  10. we have 20 scoring chances yet 4 shots. Of they had shot on all those chances they would be up 2 or 3-0
  11. Green is the worst coach we hired. Worst at coaching and evaluating young talent. Green basically does the opposite of Bruce, get the least out of guys Podkolzin had how much ice time under him? 6 minutes?
  12. Yeah that should happen for 95% of games from now on if we want playoffs. Play Halak only for back to back games
  13. Naah I rather they diversify the upper management and have different ideas. Ryan johnson was part of the old regime, we should aim for someone external but Johnson can still be part of the management group giving ideas. Thats how a strong organization runs, having different ideas and trying to reach a consensus.
  14. Pettersson for Byram?? Problem would be that we need a 1C after that trade unless you think they could find that in the off season.
  15. They had the opportunity to trade him to Sabres for Eichel. Petey would have been worth more than what Vegas gave up in Tuch. That would have been the change I would not mind especially knowing Eichel would eventually recover. It would have been low risk, high reward type of move.
  16. Thats Benning picking mediocre players like pearson and giving them 3 mil plus while letting better players like Toffoli go, even though he would have costed less than a million dollar more than pearson.
  17. Again you need to wait til trade deadline, you cant just do knee jerk trades right away. They need to see where the team stands once deadline rolls around.
  18. Damn, cant believe Benning gave NTC to Pearson while he let Toffoli go. This is why Benning needed to be fired. Just terrible at signing the wrong players and then giving them NTC. I bet the custodian working game nights has an NTC too
  19. Problem is Dickenson was brought here to be a 3rd line C, I guess Benning goofed up, trading for Dickenson. We have too many wingers at it is, I dont think we need Dickenson if he will be playing wing. Highmore could just as easily replace Dickenson on wing.
  20. Yeah but wouldnt the GM have the final say in this? Or the scouts give a list of what they think is the best players and the GM choosing from that list unless there is a consensus.
  21. Let see what we need to improve on first and that will become obvious when trade deadline rolls around. I want to see how the team doea under Bruce til trade deadline and then make a decision. Right now its hard to evaluate the needs of this team after being coached by an incompetent coach for many years.
  22. I agree that if JR cant retain miller or horvat or boeser, he should definitely trade them for the best he can get. I think he is not afraid to make those type of moves and he has done it before.
  23. First of all, let see what this team actually has under Bruce. The team was under Green and Baumgartner for 5 years, and those guys are not qualified to even coach a high school hockey team nevermind an NHL team. There are some players that are underperforming and some that are excelling. Under Green everyone was underperforming. I see great improvements in Myers and Poolman, even Dickenson after one week under Boudreau. If we go on a 15 game win streak, would you still say the same thing? The team might need just a couple of additions and subtractions instead of a complete overhaul. We need to evaluate players under Bruce not evaluate past performances under Green. Thats how we lost Nate Schmidt and now he is playing on a top pairing D in winnipeg and has 15 assists up to this point.
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